Grumilea.} RUBIACEH (Sond.) 21 
A shrub, 4-5 feet, Leaves 6-7 inches long, 14-14 inch broad. Petiole 1 inch 
jong. Stipules very broad, aristate. Panicle 14-2 inches long, with minute bracts. 
Calyx 14 line long, repand, without teeth. Corolla white, tube 6 lines, limb 2 lines 
long. Exserted part of the style as long as the corolla. 
9. P. Zeyheri (Sond.); quite glabrous ; twigs terete or subcompressed ; 
leaves (small) oblong-lanceolate or oblong, tapering at the base, nearly 
sessile ; corymb abbreviate, 8—12-flowered ; teeth of calyx as long as the 
tube, acute. P. lanceolata, Zeyh. 768, not of E. & Z. 
Has. Magalisberg, Vaalriver, Zeyher ¢ Burke. Dec. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Shrub with widely spreading, opposite branches. Leaves often tufted, 10-12 
lines long, 2 lines broad. Corymb as long or shorter than the leaf. Calyx nearly 
i line long. Corolla wanting. Fruit as large as a pea, black. 
10. P. lanceolata (Eckl! in South Afr. Quart. Journ. 1830, p. 374); 
quite glabrous; branches subcompressed ; leaves petiolate, lanceolate, at- 
tenuate at both ends, with recurved margins, coriaceous, shining above; 
panicle corymbose, trichotomous ; ; teeth of the calyx bluntish, twice 
shorter than the tube. E. Z. 2303. P. lanceolata, E. Mey. in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Forests in Olifantshoek, Uitenhage ; near Grahamstown ; Fort Beaufort, 
Katriver, and Natal, E. ¢ Z., Drege, Gerr. & M‘Ken. Nov.—Jan. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A shrub, 6-8 feet high, with yellowish or grey branches. Leaves 2}-3 inches 
long, 5-9 lines broad. Petioles short, in the specimens from Natal often 4-6 lines 
long. Stipules aristate. Corymbs terminal, lax, many-flowered. Calyx 1 line, tube 
of corolla 4 lines, lobes 2 ines Fi long. Fruit black, globose, as large as a small pea. 
XII. GRUMILEA, Gaertn. 
Calyx-tube urceolate, limb with 5 very short teeth. Corolla with a 
short tube, villous in the throat; limb 5-parted, reflexed, valvate in bud. 
Stamens sub-exserted ; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovulate. 
Style exserted ; stigma bifid. Berry globose, 2-celled, "a-seeded. Seed 
planoconvex. ‘Albumen cartilaginous, ruminate, or grumose from chinks 
and fissures. Hmbryo erect, small. DC. prod. 4, p. 495. 
Shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic or obovate, coriaceous. Stipulz acute, 
broad at the base, deciduous. Flowers terminal, cymose. Name from grumula, a 
little heap ; in reference to the albumen, which is grumose. 
1. G. Capensis (Sond.) ; glabrous ; branches subtetragonous or com- 
pressed ; leaves shortly petiolate, obovate or oblong-ovate, subacute, 
attenuated at the base, with revolute margins ; corymbs pedunculate, 
trichotomous ; bracts and pedicels pilose. Logania capensis, Eckl. ! im 
South Afr. Quart. Journ. 1. p. 371. Plectronia citrifolia, E.Z. ! n. 2299. 
P. coffeacea, E. Z.! pl. exsics. Grumilea cymosa, LE, Mey.! G. globosa, 
Hochst.! Flora XXVII. IT. p. 554. 
Var. 8, angustifolia ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate or subacute. 
Var. +. pubescens; leaves obovate, or obovate-oblong, ple length 
Has. Woods, Zaureberge, Drege; Olifantshoek, on Bosjesmannsrivier, BE. & Z.; 
Howison’s Port, H. Hutton, Zeyh. 2707 ; Port Natal, Drege, J. Sanderson ; Krauss. 
428. Gerrard ¢ M‘Ken, 830. Var. B. near Grahamstad, Zeyh. Var. y. Port Natal. 
Sept.—Jan. (Herb. Sond., D.) 
Evergreen shrub or tree. ” Leaves penninerved, 3-5 inches long, 1}-2 inches broad, 
shining above, a little paler beneath, quite glabrous, or with short adpressed hairs 
on the middle nerve ; in var. y. evidently pubescent, especially on the neryes. Pe- 
