TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 585 
stalks; calyx pubescent, sepals 5-6, oblong, acute, spreading ; ovary 
ovate, glabrous, with 5-6 divergent styles. 
me "ah) Eastern districts and Kaffirland, R. Hallack, Mrs. Holland, &c. (Herb. 
" shrub, or small tree, with the habit of Dovyalis rhamnoides. Leaves 14 inch 
long, 7-1 inch wide, pale green; petioles 2-3 lines long, Fruit edible, “like a 
small, yellowish apple.” Colonial name, “ the Kei apple. 
4. A.? longispina (Harv.); arborescent, armed with long, divergent 
spines, glabrous ; branches and spines warted ; leaves coriaceous, rhom- 
boid-ovate or elliptical, obtuse, 5-nerved at base and veiny, quite entire, 
concolourous; female flowers unknown; male flowers fascicled, shortly 
pedicellate ; calyx 5-parted, tomentose ; sepals ovate, acute, nearly 
valvate. 
Has. Near D’Urban, Natal, Gerrard § McKen, No. 541, §42. (Herb. D.) 
A shrub or small tree, resembling Célastrus buvxifolius. Bark dark-coloured, 
minutely warted. Leaves 2-2} inches long, 1-1} inch broad, petioles 2 lines long. 
Male flowers 6-12 in a tuft, on pedicels 1-2 lines long. Stamens numerous ; anthers 
subglobose. 
Page 74, after Blackwellia rufescens, introduce ; 
2. B. dentata (Harv.); leaves on long petioles, broadly elliptical, or 
ovate, coarsely and bluntly toothed; panicles axillary, shorter than the 
leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube; perianth 16-18-parted ; 
stamens 8-9. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Gerrard ¢ McKen. (Herb, D.) 
Perhaps only a variety, though a strongly marked one, of B. rufescens. Petioles 
uncial. Lamina of the leaves 2-3 inches long, 14-24 inches broad, membranaceous. 
Panicle about twice as long as the petioles, many-flowered. 
Page 74, after Ionidium Caffrum, introduce: 
2*. I, Natalense (Harv.) ; suffruticose ; stems erect, wrgate, pubes- 
cent ; leaves on very short petioles, ovate-oblong or rhomboid, obtuse 
or subacute, flat, repando-dentate or sub-entire, when young 3 
afterwards glabrous; stipules subulate; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered ; 
sepals lanceolate, ciliate, and hispid; labellum somewhat obovate, cuneate 
at base, with a very short spur. 
Has. Near Port Natal, J. Sanderson / 415, Gerrard § McKen/ (Herb. Hk. 
D. Sd. 
By ak the largest of the S. African species. Stems 12-18 perp Leaves 
14-24 inches long, 7-1 inch wide, pale green, the full grown quite . Pe- 
duncles much shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Labellum smaller than in Z. 
Cafrwm, differently shaped, and much narrower in proportion to its breadth. 
Page 113, at the end of Polygales, add : 
IV. SECURIDACA, Linn. 
Sepals 5, unequal, the two lateral (ale) much larger than the rest, 
Sd aed, Petals 5, the two lateral adnate to the base of the 
staminal tube, distinct from the carina, erecto-connivent ; carma of 
equal length, concave-helmetshaped, or 3-lobed ; rudiments of the 
upper petals minute or none. Stamens 8, united into a slit tube and 
