state only in Natal, by the collector Gerrard, about twenty 

 years ago, and more lately by Mr. J. Medley Wood, the 

 energetic Curator of the Natal Botanical Gardens, who 

 describes it as having a tendency to fix itself on dead trees. 

 Mr. Bolus's description and figures are from fresh specimens 

 and a drawing sent to him by Mrs. Katherine Saunders 

 from Eshowe in Zululand. To this latter invaluable 

 correspondent the Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for 

 seeds, from which a large number of plants were raised in 

 1892, and which flowered in December, 1893 ; as also for 

 living plants, with the observation that the shrub is 

 epiphytic, growing normally on trees, though also on the 

 ground^ Mr. Watson informs me that at Kew the leaves 

 are deciduous in autumn, the plant starting into new 

 growth, and flowering in winter. 



Descr.— An epiphytic small shrub, with a long naked 

 stem as thick as the wrist in old plants, and stout, sub- 

 quadrangular naked brown branches, bearing short, termi- 

 nal leafy shoots. Leaves 2-6 in. long, rather fleshy, ovate 

 or oblong, subacute, coarsely toothed, base narrowed into 

 a short petiole, young, and often the nerves and margins of 

 the old red. Flowers in clusters below the leaves ; pedicels 

 very short, spreading, and puberulous. Flowers 2 inches 

 long, drooping. Calyx very small, 5-partite, persistent, 

 puberulous, green; segments linear, puberulous. Corolla 

 tubular, trumpet- shaped, pale red, tube gradually dilated 

 trom a slender base to the naked throat, hairv at the base 

 withm ; lobes 5, short, ovate, spreading, yellow within. 

 Anthers 5, sessile at the mouth of the corolla-tube, broadly 

 oblong Ovary ovoid, confluent with the disk, glabrous, 

 ^-celled ; ovules many, on spongy axile placentas ; style 

 very slender, stigma simple. Fruit an ovoid green, 

 ^-celled, many-seeded, green drupe nearly an inch long, 

 tip rounded, apiculate by the style-base.— J. D. H. 



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