﻿452 BiQNONiACE^ (Sprague). lUhigozum. 



African R. hrevispinum, which hns leaves of a similar shape, the flowers are only 

 half the size and the calyx and adulb leaves are covered with a very dense 

 tomentum. 



3. R. Obovatum (Burch. Trav. i. 389) ; an erect shrub, 5-8 ft. 

 high ; hranches alternate or opposite, horizontal ; branchlets spread- 

 ing ; leaves simple or trifoliolate, fascicled on small cushions ; petiole 

 1-3-i lin. long, slender; blade obovate or obovate-oblong, often 

 emarginate, 3-7 lin. long, li-3 lin. broad, pubescent or finely 

 tomcntose with stellate hairs when young, afterwards glabrescent ; 

 flowers fascicled in twos or threes on lateral cushions ; calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 2-2^ lin. long, more or less regularly 5-lobed, not 

 markedly ribbed, stellately pubescent or tomentose, minutely glan- 

 dular ; lobes about i lin. long, rounded, slightly mucronulate; 

 corolla yellow; tube campanulate-funnel-shaped, 7-8 lin. long, 

 cylindric portion equalling the calyx, nearly glabrous outside, pilose 

 inside at the throat and below the insertion of the stamens ; lobes 

 suborbicular, 4 lin. in diam., ciliate; stamens slightly exserted from 

 the corolla- tube, inserted 6 lin. above its base ; filaments 3 lin. long ; 

 anthers li-2 lin. long, not beaked; ovary under 1 lin. long; 

 capsule elliptic-oblong, 1^-2 in. long, 7-10 lin. broad, beak 5-6 lin. 

 long; nucleus of seed orbicular; hyaline wing 2-2^- lin. broad. 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 234 ; Si^rague in Hooh. Ic. PI. sub 't. 2799. JR. 

 trichotomum, Fend in Denhschr. Bot. Gesellseh. Regensh. iii. 201, t. 

 5; Krauss iti Flora, 1844, 829; Bur. Monogr. Bignon. t. 19; 

 Fngl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 254 ; K. Sclium. in Engl. ^- Prantl, 

 Pjlanzenfam. iv. 3B, 233, t. 90, j, k ; not of Burchell. B. hrachia. 

 turn, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzenr/eogr. Bocumente, 60, 137; 

 Brtgem Unnaa, xx. 195 ; Meim. Gen. PL Comment. 210. Bycium 

 macranfhum, BucMngei' ex Krauss in Flora, 1844, 829. 



Coast Region: George Div. ; near Roodewall, Krauss, 1508. Uitenhage 

 Div. ; Coegakamma Kloof, Zeyher, 86i ! Burke, 371 ! near Winterhoek Moun- 

 tains, krauss, 1508 ; between Coega Elver and Sunday River, 500-1000 ft., 

 Zeyher, 3437 Albany Div. ; Fish River, Baur, 1054 ! near Grahamsbown, 

 £.!>'''"« ^''''""^""f. 590! Brak Kloof, White, 93! and without precise 

 ■locality, Bowher! British Kaffi-aria, Cooper, 224 ' 



l^pf'^-f'^^ft'' ^^^'^^f^^: Somerset Div.; near Bruintjes Hoogte, Burcliell, 3114! 

 between the Zuurberg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 2000-2.500 it., Drege. 

 rS .m^K'fJ^^n ^'•^^ff R«"«t Div. ; by the Sunday River, nea^ Graaff 

 Re.net, 3000-4000 fh,I)r^^e/ Aliwal North Div. ; on dry stony mountain sides 

 at Elands Hoek, 4600 ft., Bolus, 10484 ! ' .? J 



t>,f v*r«- ^^"l^o"; ,p"q"«l«iid West; between Spuigslang Fontein and 

 the Vaal River, Burcliell, 1713! near Kimberley, 3900 ft., 3f«HoWi, 782. 

 Uechuanaland ; near Hamapery, Burchell, 2487/6 ! 



4. R zambesiacTun (Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 32) ; an erect 

 spmy shrub, with spreading branchlets ; leaves pinnate, 4-6 lin. long, 

 solitary or fascicled ; common petiole -1.-1 lin. long, slender ; rhachis 

 wmged ; leaflets 5-9, very shortly stalked ; blade elliptic or obovate, 

 lv-3 im. long, A-lA lin, broad, puberulous or subglabrous; flowers 

 fascicled on cushions below the branchlets; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; 

 calyx campanulate, subglabrous; tube U~2 lin. long; lobes i lin. 



