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ing towards the stigma ; ovaiy ovoid-conical, glabrous ; ripe beny 

 ovoid, blunt, smooth, f-f in. long, %-^\ in. broad, |-| in. thick, 

 green ; embryo about -i— f of the seed in length. 



Fastebn Region : Pondoland; in a forest at Egosa, 656-1G40 ft., Beyrich, 

 13 ! Znluland ; Eshowe, Mrs. E. Saunders, 6 t on trees in bush at Etuineni, 

 Wood, 3948 ! aud withoat precise locality, Gerrard, 1417 ! 



XIV. HALLERIA, Linn. 



Calyx cup-shaped or subrotate, 3-5-clef t, tough, persistent ; lobea 

 short, rounded, or obtuse, sometimes apiculate. Corolla trumpet- or 

 funnel-shaped, rather long, somewhat declinate-incurved or nearly 

 straight ; limb short, oblique or nearly regular, 4- or 5-lobed, 

 bilabiate in bud with the posterior lip exterior ; lobes short, broad. 

 Stamens i, didynamous, scarcely declinate or nearly equal ; fila- 

 ments inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, filiform ; anthers 

 short, 2-celled, exserted or shortly included ; cells diverging, at 

 length divaricate ; staminode 0. Ovary ovoid-conical, 2-celJed ; 

 style filiform, marcescent, minutely stigmatose at the apex, usually 

 exserted ; ovules numerous. Fruit baccate, indehiscent. Seeds 

 several or numerous, rather small, somewhat compressed, sub- 

 orbicnlar or elliptical, narrowly winged. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees ; leaves opposite, ovate or elliptical, dentate 

 or snbentire ; flowers axillary, subfasciculate. 



DisTRiB. Species 5, of which 2 are natives of Madagascar. 

 Corolla declinate-incurved j tube gibbous at the base ; 



limb oblique (1) Inoida. 



Corolla straight, nearly regular; tube not gibbous at 

 the base : 



Corolla-limb 5-lobed; leaves ovate, crenately ser- 

 rate (2) ovata. 



' Corolla-limb 4-lobed; leaves elliptical, sharply 



serrate (3) elliptica. 



^ 1. H. lucida (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 625, excl. var. /?) ; a glabrous 

 shrub or tree, 2-30 ft. high, shining, erect; trunk sometimes 7-15 

 in. in diam. ; branches opposite, numerous, rigid ; branchlets rather 

 slender, leafy ; leaves ovate, more or less narrowed or nearly rounded 

 and usually acuminate, subtruncate or narrowed and often unequal 

 at the base, thinly coriaceous, rigid, bright green, serrulate, spread- 

 ing, 1-4 in. long, i-2f in. broad ; petioles ranging up to |- in. long ; 

 peduncles solitary or clustered a few together in the axils of the 

 leaves or lateral on the branches or trunk, slender, l-^ in. long, 

 usually bibracteate about or below the middle ; bracts opposite, 

 small ; flowers drooping ; calyx cyathiform or basin-shaped, A-i in. 

 in diam. ; lobes 3-5, rounded ; corolla |-1 in. long, brown-red or 

 purple, trumpet-shaped, somewhat decurving, gibbous at the base in 

 front, ringent, oblique at the mouth ; limb short, 4-lobed, ciliolate, 



