﻿208 scROPHULARiACEyE (Hiern). \_Halleria. 



unequal ; posterior lobe entire, emarginate or bifid ; anthers 

 yellowish, shortly exserted ; style about as long as or longer than the 

 corolla ; berries oval or globose, deep purple, smooth, edible ; seeds 

 -yV in. long. Bot. Mag. t. 1744 ; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Hot 

 Mag. ii. 54, and in DC. Prodr. x. 301 ; Thunb. Prodr. 97, and 

 m. Cap. ed. Schult. 457 ; Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 24, 37 ; Jaub. 

 4- Spach, Illustr. PI. Orient, v. 65 ; Krauss vi Flora, 1844, 833. 

 — Lonicera foliis lucidis aeuminatis denfatis, fj"uctu rotunda, Burm. 

 liar. Afr. PL 244, i. Ixxxix. fig. 2. 



South Africa: without locality, Masson ! Niven ! Roxburgh! Ndson! 

 Banks ^ Solander! Zichtensteinl 'Peddie.' Elliott! Button ! Bolton ! Miss 

 Bnwker! Sanderson, 418 ! Wijley! Talbot! Bunbury,l6il Beeves! Thunb erg ! 

 Herb. Burmann ! 



Coast Region: Clamvilliam Div. ; Wuppertlial, Wurmb. in Herb. Dreje. 

 Worcester Div. ; Dutoits KlooOPOQrJOQOJJt., Dre^e., 7890a ! Paarl Div. ; Pattrl 

 Mountain, 1000-2000 Ti7,"i)rege I Cape Div. ; slopes above Fernwood, Wolley 

 Bod, 147 ! Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, 2000-3000 ft., Drege, 7890c ! Kleiu 

 River, Zeyher, 3527! Baavians Kloof, Lichtenstein ! Swellendam Div. ; by the 

 Bufiel.jagts River, near Sparrbosch, 500 ft., Drege, 19,2(^1 ! Swellendam, EcUon, 

 91! Uitenhage Div.; Vanstadens Berg, 1000 ft., Drege! Bathurst Div.; at 

 Kaffirs Drift military post, Burchell, 3767 i Albany Div. ; in woods near 

 Grahamstown, MacOwan ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1559 ! British 

 Kaffraria, Cooper, 100 ! 



Centual Region : Somerset Div. ; on the upper part of Brnintjes Hoogte, 

 Burchell, 3053 ! on Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3241 1 Wodehouse Div. ; Stormberg 

 Range, 5000-6000 ft., Drefife, 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; DraVensberg, Cooper, 2820. 

 Basutoland, without precise locality, Cooper, 701 ! Transvaal; on mountains 

 near Lydenburg, McLea. in Herb. Bolus, 1000 I on the slopes of the Drakensberg, 

 near Mac Mac gold-fields, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 1770 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal; Inanda, TFoocZ, 218! between Durban and Umslutie 

 (Umhloti) River, Kraus^23ol Klip River, 3500-1500 it., Sutherland ! and 

 without precise locaTttyTTiBissef^' Cooper, 2819 ! 2821 ! Gerrard, 221 ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



The berries are much eaten by the Hottentots {Burchell). The peduncles are 

 sometimes clustered on the old wood. In Burchell's time it was cultivated in the 

 Government garden at Capetown, Burchell, 752 ! 



H. lucida var. crispa, Drege in Linnaea, xx. 197, without description, is 

 Zeyher, 35277 from Grahamstown, 1500-2500 ft., in Albany Div. of the Coast 

 Region. I have not seen the specimen. 



The local name is Witte Olyve ; the usual height of the trunk, which is straight, 

 is about 6 ft., and the diameter is 6-8 in. ; the bark is very thin, greyish white, 

 and much cracked ; the wood is like red-beech but of a finer grain, bard, tough. 

 and well adapted for carpenters' work, planes, screws, joiners' benches, and tools 

 of every description ; it also supplies the wagon-maker with a good material for 

 poles, &c. Pappe, Silva Capensis, 25. 



According to Fritzsche, Beitr. Kenntn. Poll. 23, the pollen is oval, smooth, 

 and marked with 3 furrows with a depression in each furrow. 



2. H. ovata (Benth. in Hook. Comp, Bot. Mag. ii. 54) ; a glab- 

 rous shrub ; branchlets rather slender, striate-sulcate, leafy ; leaves 

 opposite, ovate or rhomboid-ovate, obtusely narrowed or scarcely 

 acute, obtusely or shortly narrowed at the base, thinly coria- 

 ceous, shining, rather paler and glaucescent beneath, crenately 

 serrate except near both ends, 1-2 in. long, ^-1^ in. broad, the 



