Olinia. | OLINIEZ (Sond.) 519 
white, fascicled, setose hairs; tube oblong, in fruit urceolate, lobes 
lanceolate, pectinate-ciliate, deciduous ; appendages linear, palmate- 
ciliate ; stamens 10, unequal, the anthers of the longer ones equalling 
the petals. . 
Has. Near Port Natal, Gueinzius, 145, 492. Gerrard § McKen/ (Herb. Sd., D.) 
_ Stem densely covered with fulvous, fascicled hairs. Leaves 4 inches long, 14 
inch broad, 5-nerved, subsilky on the upper, greyish on the under-surface ; petiole 
6-8 lines long. Panicle about 4 inches long, the primary branches opposite or ter- 
nate. Bracts acuminate, puberulous, as long as the peduncles. Pedicels 1-2 lines 
long. Petals rotundate, purple, 1 inch long. Filaments glabrous, connectivum 
biauriculate at the base ; anthers 1-porose. Fruit-bearing calyx § lines long. Cap- 
sule roundish, silky at the apex, 5-celled. : 
3. 0. pheotricha (Hochst. ! 1. c.) ; suffruticulose ; stems erect or 
ascendent, hispid with rigid, yellowish hairs ; leaves opposite, very 
short-petiolate or the upper ones subsessile, ovate-oblong or sublanceolate, 
3-5-nerved, remotely serrulated, hispid ; flowers terminal, capitate- 
aggregate, bracteated ; calyx setose, with 4, pectinate-ciliate lobes ; 
appendages linear, short, palmate-ciliate ; stamens 8. O. Simsii, E. 
Meyer. in herb. Drege. 
Var. 8. debilis, Sond. Stems glabrous or hispid at.the apex ; leaves oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, glabrous or the upper ones hispidulous ; flowers a little smaller. 
O. debilis, Sond. 1. ¢. 48. 
Has. On the plains near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss., Gueinzius, 395 et 494. 
Var. 8, muddy places on Magalisberg, Zeyher, 538. Dec.—April. (Herb. Sd. D. Hk.) 
Stem from 3 inches to 1-17 foot, a few-branched or simple, purplish, Leaves 
8-12 lines long, 5-6 lines, in var. 8. 3-4 lines broad, acute. Flowers 3-8, united 
into a head, ve short-petiolated. Calyx ovate, 2 lines long, lobes ovate or oblong. 
Petals 4, rotundate-obtuse, nearly 3 inch long, purple. Ripe capsule as large as a 
small pea, setose at the apex, 4-celled. 
(GENUS ALLIED TO MBELASTOMACE2. ) 
OLINIEZA, W. Arnott. 
(By W. SonDER.) 
OLINIA, Thunb. 
Calyx tubulose, senior. to the ovary, with 5, rarely 4, minute 
teeth. Petals 5, very rarely 4, inserted in the throat of the calyx. 
Seales 5, minute, obovate, alternate with the petals. Stamens 5 ; fila- 
ments very short, adnate to the calyx below the scales ; anthers sub- 
globose, 2-celled, introrse ; connectivum thick. Ovary inferior, 4—5- 
celled ; cells 3-ovulate; ovules pendulous, uniseriate, affixed to a 
central placenta. Style subulate; stigma obtuse. Berry drupaceous, 
elliptic or subglobose, truncate, 3-4-celled; putamens elongate, im- 
curved, mostly (by abortion) r-seeded. Seed oval. Embryo without 
albumen, spirally rolled ; cotyledons scarcely distinct. Klotzsch, in 
Linn. Klotesch & Otto, Icon. pl. rar. hort. Berol, 1, p. 6. Endl. Gen. 
nm. 6272. 
A glabrous shrub or tree, with 4-angled, patent branches; opposite, petiolate, 
coriaceous, green and shining above, penninerved, quite entire, not punctate leaves ; 
terminal and axillary, densely cymose, subtrichotomous panicles of small, white 
flowers. ‘Two opposite, obovate, mucronate, ciliate, white, deciduous bracts at the 
base of a flower. Fruit scarlet-red. 
