14 RUBIACEZ (Sond.) [Vangueria. 
times shorter than the corolla; stigma obtuse. Sond. Linn. vol. 23, p. 57. 
V. tomentosa, Hochst! Regenst. bot. Zeitg. 1842, p. 238. 
Var. §. virescens, leaves green, glabrous or nearly so. 
Has. Forests in Caffraria, H. Bowker ; Natal, Krauss, 219. J. Sanderson, 306. 
T. Williamson, Drege, Gueinzius, 56. Vaalriver and Magalisberg, Zeyher, 764. 
Nov. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A tree about 10 feet high, unarmed, with terete and subcompressed, opposite 
branches. Leaves quite entire, densely clothed with a yellowish tomentum, penni- 
nerved, 4-5 inches long, 3-4 inches broad. Stipuleslarge, cuspidate. Cymes shorter 
than the leaves, tomentose. Calyx subsessile ; the teeth acute or bluntish, shorter 
than the tube. Corolla tomentose, 3 lines long, the lobes glabrous above. Ovary 
5-celled, style filiform, equalling the stamens; stigma obtuse. Fruit round, glabrous, 
an inch in diameter, edible. The variety is nearly allied to V. edulis, Vahl. This 
is the ‘‘ Wild Medlar” of the colonists. 
2. V. parvifolia (Sond. 1. c. p. 58) ; young branches reddish, as well 
as the leaves and flowers velvetty-tomentose ; leaves subsessile, orbicu- 
lar, subacute, penninerved, not netted-veined ; cymes axillary, sessile; 
calyx-teeth acute, 4-times shorter than the corolla; ovary 5-celled, stigma 
4—5-toothed. 
Has. Magalisberg, Nov. Dec. Burke § Zeyher, 765. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Shrub with spreading terete branches. Leaves 12-14 lines long, 12 lines broad, 
coriaceous. Cymes shorter than the leaves. Tube of calyx as long as the limb. 
Corolla 24 lines long ; the lobes glabrous above. Style equalling the stamens; stigma 
thick, cylindrical, a little larger at the minutely toothed apex. Fruit (half ripe) as 
large as a small cherry, crowned by the rudiments of calyx teeth. 
3. V. macrocalyx (Sond. 1 c. p. 59); young branches, leaves, and 
flowers tomentose ; leaves shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, at length sub- 
glabrous ; cymes axillary, subsessile, few-flowered, shorter than the 
leaves; calyx teeth linear-oblong, obtuse, as long as the corolla; throat 
of the corolla naked or nearly so; ovary 5-celled ; stigma obtuse. 
Has. On the Zwartkopsrivier and Winterhoeksberge, Uit., Z. ¢ Z., Ebenac, 17; 
Kreili’s country, H. Bowker ; Port Natal, Gerr. § M‘K. 1344. Nov. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A shrub, 6-8 feet high. Leaves 13-2 inches long ; quite entire or subdenticu- 
late ; the petiole 1-2 lines long. Peduncles bracteolate. Calyx tube 1 line long, 
the lobes 3 lines long, 1 line broad. Corolla 2} lines long, the tube nearly glabrous 
outwards, but silky near the base within, the throat quite glabrous, or with a few 
hairs; lobes glabrous above, acute. Ovary 5-celled. Stigma asin V. infausta. The 
ripe fruit as large as a common plum, 3-4 seeded, delicious eating. (W.7.Gerrard). 
4. V, venosa (Sond.); leaves shortly petiolate, obovate or obovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, or subacute, pale and much veined beneath, as well as 
the branches quite glabrous; cymes shortly pedunculate, few flowered ; 
calyx lobes linear, obtuse ; corolla glabrous outside. Pachystigma veno- 
sum, Hochst.l.c. Lagynvas discolor, H. Meyer. 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss, 131. Gueinzius, 553. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Branches alternate and opposite, terete. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 8-10 lines 
broad, tapering into the petiole, green above, whitish and netted-veined beneath. 
Cymes shorter than the leaves ; peduncles and pedicels bracteate, hairy. Calyx 
lobes 3 lines long. Corolla 3-4 lines long, lobes acuminate. Fruit nearly 1 inch 
in diameter, globose, glabrous, with 5, or by abortion with 4 one-seeded nuts. 
Seed oblong, curved, ¢ to a central placenta, 
5. V. lasiantha (Sond.); leaves petiolate, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
