﻿Pterodiscus.] pedaline^i: (Stapf). 457 



the outside, almost 1 in. across ; lobes short ; filaments bearded at 

 the very base, otherwise glabrous ; ovule 1 in each cell ; fruit 

 orbicular, cordate at the base, subemarginate at the apex, 9-10 lin. 

 long, including the wings which are 4 lin. broad towards the base. 

 Harpagophytum pinnatijidum, Engl. Jahrh. x. 255, t. 7,Ji(j. B. 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West, Herbert Div. ; St. Clair, near Doutjliis 

 by the Orange River, Orpen, 190! and in MacOwan, Serb. Aust.-Afr., 1935! 

 siindy places near Kimbcrley, 4O0O ft., Marloth, 730. 



The plant was stated in the Botanical Magazine to be a native of the Albany 

 District, Cape Colony. This is an error, which was caused by the plant having 

 been received from Professor MacOwan, then at Grahamstown. The sender has 

 since explained that he had the plant from Mr. Dugmorc, who fouud it within 

 sight of Orpen's locality. 



II. HOLUBIA, Oliver. 



Galyx small, 5-partite ; segments subulate-lanceolate. Corolla : 

 tube cylindric at the middle, funnel-shaped at the mouth, produced 

 posticously into a large sac at the base ; limb spreading, obscurely 

 2-labiate ; lobes 5, suborbicular, subequal. Stamens 4, didynamoun, 

 inserted low down in the corolla-tube ; filaments long, filiform ; 

 anthers parallel, ovoid, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally by a short 

 slit. Disc free, posticously dilated, fleshy. Ovary slightly laterally 

 compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2.celled ; cells undivided, 

 equal ; ovules 2 -seriate, 8 in each cell. Fruit unknown. 



A herb; leaves palmati-nerved. more or less lobed; flowers solitary ia the 

 axils of the leaves, greenish-yellow. 



DisTRiB. Species 1, endemic. 



1. H. saccata (Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1475) ; floweriug branches 

 dabrous or almost so; leaves orbicular-ovate, truncate or .slightly 

 cordate at the base, very obtuse, slightly lobed or sinuate, 1-1 m. 

 long and broad, sparingly mealy-glandular below, glabrous above; 

 petk,le 1-11- in. long; corolla-tube fJrom the calyx to the mou h) 

 H-li in. long ; sac up to 1 in. long and over i m. wide ; limb 1 m. 

 wide. 



KALAUAHi Region: Transvaal j Marica District, Iloluh ! and without 

 precise locality, Todd, 24 ! 



III. HAEPAGOPHYTUM, UC. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-partite; -S^-^J^ , Jff ^^th^;, .""S 

 rnrnU,,- tubc fuunel-sliaped, equal or slightly gibbous, Jimo 

 toroUa. tube '^nnei ^,-;,,.|^ „QuaI. Anther-cells parallel, 

 oblique; ^^^ «f ^jj^^'f ttfoLiecUve dehiscing longitidinally 

 pendulous from de apex oyh^^^ ""divided; ovules many in each 



d'^Ste.'^C- a""ovodor oblong 2.celled, tardily dehiscent 



