﻿Ceratotheca.] pedaline^ (Stapf). 463 



Wood, 140! between Durban and Atterelift'e, Sanderson, 328! Klip Rivor, 

 Oerrard, 722 ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1187 ! 1248 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



VII. PRETREA, J. Gay. 



Cahjx small, 5-partite ; segments lanceolate. Corolla obliquely 

 campanulate ; limb oblique, porrect, subbilabiate ; lowest lobe by 

 far the longest. Stamens didynauious, inserted low down in tho 

 corolla-tube, not conniving; filaments slender, filiform; antliers 

 dorsifixed ; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc annular, 

 equal. Ovanj 2-celled ; cells completely divided by a spurious 

 septum ; ovules 2 in each division. Fruit indehiscent, very hard, 

 disc-.?haped with 2 conical spines from near the centre ; mesocari* 

 ultimately with 2-4 large cavities. Seeds 2 in each division ; testa 

 delicate. 



Perennial, trailing herbs ; leaves deeply sinuatc-dentate to laciniate ; flowers 

 rose-coloured to crimson, solitary in the axils of the leaves, no Uling on long 

 slender pedicel?^. 



1. P. zanguebarica (J. Gay in Ann, Sc. Nat. Ire ser. i. 457) ; 

 stems branched, trailing, up to 6 ft. long, more or less hairy; 

 leaves broad ovate to elliptic or oblong in outhne, deeply sinuate- 

 dentate or laciniate, i-1 in. long, J-f in. broad, more or less pubes- 

 cent densely mealv-glandular and white below; petiole 2-3 lin. 

 lon^- pedicels 1-2 "in. long; calyx 2-3 lin. long, pubescent and 

 mealy-c-landular ; corolla 1-li in. long; lowest lobe 2-4 lin. I.road ; 

 fruit -^-^ in. in diara. DC. Prodr. ix. 256 ; Decne. in Ann. Sc. i\ at. 

 5me sfr. iii. 333 ; Klotzsch in Peters, Seise Mossamh. Bot. 188 ; 

 Engl Pfl Ost-Afr. C 365 ; Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 264 fig 97, A— B, 98, K; Baum, Kunene-Samh. Expejl 3/2; 

 Hiernin Cat. Afr. PL Welic. i. 801. P. hojenana, iJren,'. m 

 Duch. Rev. Bot. i. 517. P. Forlesii and P. eriocarpa Berne in 

 Ann. 8c. Nat. bme ser. iii. 334. P. loasafolia, Klotzsch, I.e. 188; 

 Becne. in Ann. Sc. Nat 5me ser. iii. 334 P. artemuic^foha, 

 Klotzsch I.e. 189, t. 31. P. seneeioides, Klotzsch, /.c l»y, t. 6^; 

 Martynia zanguebarica. Lour. Fl. Goch. 386 Brcerocaryum 

 sinuatum, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2me s^r. iv. 2by, t. lu. 



Kalahari Region • Bechuanaland ; between Mafeking and Ramoutsa, 

 iu^ard'TrausvaalT Diamond fields, Tuck J Magalies Berg, Bnrke Zeyher. 

 Liugaia. ir<iu&vda» , _ij u„f™.aAn Flinds River and K ippan, Jiehmann, 



1201! Sandfontein, f^i^^^^ ^.etween ™J J'^JI 3% ^^Jxl,ci, Kehmann, 

 e;fy79t Hno-srp Veld, at Donkers HoeK, titninann, ujij- " i , „ , ' 



*°Sl™K.aIO.. Del.g.aB.;,i'<-I.«/ M,,Uiro,lO<. BoU,. H.rl. flor„.. 

 1336 ! Scott ! Spelie ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



