Oxyanthus. | RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 3 
_A shrub with petiolate, ovate, coriaceous leaves, intrapetiolar, cuspidate, deciduous 
stipulae, and terminal, capitate, sessile, scarlet flowers. Named in honour of William 
Burchell, the zealous and meritorious investigator of South Africa. 
1, B, Capensis (R. Brown in Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 466); leaves on short 
petioles, ovate, acute, subcordate, entire, downy. Pappe Sylv. cap. p. 
18. E. Z. n. 2285. Lonicera bubalina, L. fil. suppl. p. 146. B. Kraussii, 
Hochst! Flora, 1842, p.237. Zeyh. 2702. 
Var. 8. parviflora; leaves oval-lanceolate, smoothish, flowers a little smaller. 
B. parviflora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 891. E. Z. n. 2286. B. bubalina, Sims. Bot. Mag. 
t. 2339. Lonicera bubalina, Thunb./ jl. cap. p. 187. - 
Has. Forests of Swellendam, George, Uitenhage, Albany, Caffraria, and Port 
Natal. Oct. Nov. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.) 
A tree 12-14 feet high, called Buffeldoorn. Branches opposite, erect. Leaves 
about 3-5 inches long, 14-3 inches broad, mostly subcordate at the base, pilose or 
pubescent beneath ; in var. , usually 2-3 inches long, 1 inch broad and rarely sub- 
cordate, nearly glabrous or with a few hairs on the middle nerve. Flowers 9-10 
lines long, of a deep scarlet colour, adpressed hairy outside, in var. 8. 8-9 lines 
long, orange-coloured. Limb of the corolla ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. An- 
thers pointed, nearly sessile in the upper part, or near the middle of the corolla. 
Style as long as the corolla. Fruit 4 lines long, shorter than the calyx lobes. 
Il. OXYANTHUS, DC. 
Calyz-tube obovate, limb short, acutely 5-toothed. Corolla with a 
very long tube, a glabrous throat and a 5-parted, regular limb, with 
oblong and acuminated segments. Stamens 5, rising from the throat of 
the corolla, free, exserted; anthers acute. Style filiform, clavate at 
the apex. Fruit baccate, 2-celled. Seeds numerous. Albumen cartila- 
. ginous. Cotyledons foliaceous. DC.l.¢.p. 374. Endl. gen. n. 3307- 
Shrubs with elliptic, acuminated, short-petioled leaves, oblong, triangular, decidu- 
ous stipules, and axillary, racemose-corymbose peduncles. Name from otvs, sharp, 
and av@os, a flower, in reference to the acute teeth of the calyx and segments of the 
corolla. 
Leaves elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate: tube of the corolla < 
pity Dr ate the leaves nik abs = calor bes, gal” ovy (2) SaaRORes, 
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate: tube of the corolla 6-8 
times shorter than the leaves ... ... -. ss. vss vs «+» (2) Gerrardi. 
Leaves ovate-cordate, cuspidate. ...0 ... © ee. (see Vee Yiaee wee 
Krauss (fructifera ). i “i 
Has. Et a in woods, Port Natal, Krauss. 110. Gueinzius, 432. Cooper, 
1227. July. (Herb. Sd., D.) : ice aus 
Leaves penninerved, in our specimens 7-8 inches long, 3 inches broad, not g 
Raceme about 16-20-flowered. Calyx 3-3} lines, teeth 14 line long. Tube of the 
corolla 24 inches, lobes 7-8 lines long, subulate. Fil. short ; anthers exserted. Berry 
pomiform, 1 inch or more long, glabrous, crowned by the calyx lobes, 2-celled, many- 
seeded. Seeds ovate, compressed. Very similar to 0. speciosus, DC. 
2. 0. Gerrardi (Sond.); branches and calyx glabrous ; leaves elliptic- 
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