18 RUBIACE (Sond) | Plectronia. 
tenbergsbay, and near Gnadenthal. Var. 8. near Witte-boome, Table Mountain. 
Noy.—Dec. (Herb. 8d., D.) 
Arborescent shrub, 5-8 feet high. Bark and wood white, Very similar to the 
preceding, but branches more straight, less spiny, spines much shorter, not dis- 
coloured leaves with hairy petioles, and smaller flowers. 
8. P. pauciflora (Klotzsch. ! E, Z. n. 2300); glabrous, branches and 
twigs terete ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acute, few-nerved, entire, 
membranaceous, one-coloured; peduncles opposite, axillary, 2-flowered ; 
tube of the corolla as long as the limb ; throat naked ; tube hairy in 
the middle inside. Randia ? triplinervis, E. Meyer. in Herb. Drege. 
Has. W., Plettenbergsbay, Mundt.; Natal, Drege. Cooper, 1165, Dec.—Jan, 
(Herb. D., Sd.) 
A shrub, probably unarmed, with erect, spreading, greyish-green, virgate branches. 
Leaves J inch long, 8 lines broad, with 2 or 3 pairs of lateral nerves, not veined. 
Petiole 2 lines long. Stipules cuspidate, short. Peduncle 4 inch ; the 2 pedicels 4 
lines long. Calyx 1 line. Corolla 2 lines long ; the lobes acute; the throat quite 
naked, but there is a hairy ring in the tube below the anthers. Fruit black, didy- 
mous, but by abortion of the one cell, obliquely oblong, nearly 3 inch long. 
4. P, ciliata (Sond.); branches spiny, tercte, glabrous ; twigs pu- 
bescent ; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate or subcordate-ovate, 
subacute, penninerved, pale and veined beneath, appressed-hairy, or 
glabrous above; peduncles opposite, axillary, 1-, rarely 2-fl.; tube of 
corolla longer than the limb, throat naked ; tube with scattered hairs 
inside. Psilostoma ciliata, Kl. ! E. Z. 2296. Randia? venosa, E. M. 
Var. 8. mollis; leaves softly pubescent on both sides; corolla hairy outside, PZ, 
mollis, Gerr. MS. . 
Van. y. glabrata; leaves quite glabrous on both sides, or with scattered haiis 
beneath ; corolla glabrous. 
Has. On the Katriver, near Philipstown and Nieuweport, £. ¢ Z.; Howisons- 
poort, Zeyh. 2708 ; Buffel River, Gekau, Morley, and near Port Natal, Drege, var. 
B. Natal, Gueinzius, 554. J. Sanderson, 444, 281. Gerr. § M‘K. 5, et 1345; var. y. 
Port Natal, Gerr. § M‘K. 1346. Oct.—April. (Herb. Sond., D.) 
A large shrub with long horizontal opposite spines, Leaves opposite, rarely 
fasciculate, 8-12 lines long, subcoriaceous ; petioles 1-2 lines long. Stipules subu- 
late, equalling the petiole. Peduncles capillary, 3-1 inch long, bibracteate in the 
middle. Corolla 3 lines long. Anthers subsessile. Style subexserted ; stigma 
capitate. Fruit didymous, one cell often wanting by abortion ; about 4 lines long. 
5. P. spinosa (Klotzsch.! E.Z.n.2298); nearly glabrous, branches very 
spinous, terete ; leaves shortly petiolate, fasciculate, oval or obovate, ob- 
tuse, attenuate at the base, quite entire, penninerved, paler and veined 
beneath; peduncles axillary, solitary or fasciculate, racemose or corym- 
bose-panicled, 5—12-flowered; tube of the corolla shorter than the limb ; 
throat and tube naked. 
Has. Woods near Adow and Olifantshoek, HZ. § Z.; Stadensriver, Zeyh. 674 
Drege, 6750; Natal, Gueinzius, 403 ; Gerr. § M‘K. 534. Dec.—Jan. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Habit of a Celastrus ; shrub 5-8 feet in height. Branches spreading, greyish- 
white. Spines }—-1 inch long. Stipule subulate. Leaves rising from an ie 
bud ; petiole 1-2 lines long. Young leaves as well as the twig sometimes appressed- 
hairy, old leaves quite glabrous, 1-14 inch long. Racemes or panicles shorter than 
the leaves ; pedicels about 2 lines long. Calyx with very short teeth. Corolla 1} 
lines long. Fruit didymous, one cell often abortive. 
