586. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA 
hidden within the carina; anthers 2-celled, opening by terminal pores. 
Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style bent upwards, terete or dilated. Pract 
samaroid, indehiscent, produced at the apex into a wing. Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 1, p. 138. Endl. Gen. No. 5652. 
Shrubs or woody climbers. Leaves alternate, mostly entire and bi-glandular. 
Racemes terminal or axillary, often panicled. Chiefly natives of America, a few 
Asiatic and African. The name is from securis, a hatchet, alluding to the shape of 
the wing of the fruit. 
1. 8. oblongifolia (Bth. & H. f.1.c.); shrubby, divaricately branched, 
the old twigs often spinescent; twigs, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels 
pubescent or hispid; leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. 
and somewhat glaucous, with slightly recurved margins; peduncles 
terminating short ramuli, racemose, many-flowered ; pedicels longer 
than the flowers ; wing nearly thrice as long as the dorsally umbonate 
fruit. Lophostylis oblongifolia, Hochst. Fl. Ratisb. 1842, n. 15. Schimp. 
Pl. Abyss. No. 771. 
Has. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Hk. D.) 
A middle-sized shrub, with pale bark and foliage, the defoliated twigs often hard- 
ening into spines. ‘Leaves 1-2 inches long, 4-6 lines wide, obtuse at both ends, 
Racemes 12 or more flowered ; pedicels 4 inch long. Fruit umbonate or bluntly 
cristate at back, by an abortive second carpel, the wing 14-14 inches long, and 4-3 
inch wide. A native of Abyssinia and Senegambia ; found also by Dr. Kirk at 
Moramballa, 8S. E. Africa, where it is called “ Buazé”: the “ young branches yield 
an excellent, durable fibre ; the seeds a valuable oil,” Livingstone. 
Page 170, after Pavonia preemorsa, Willd., introduce : 
5. P. urens (Cav. Diss. 3, t. 49, f. 1 & 5, p. 283); herbaceous, erect, 
the stem, petioles, and leaves setose, with spreading, rigid, subfasciculate, 
yellow hairs ; leaves on very leng petioles, 5~7-angled-or shortly 5—7- 
lobed, the lobes acuminate, coarsely toothed ; stipules filiform; flowers 
axillary, tufted, subsessile ; involucel of many linear leaflets; calyx 
densely setose. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 522. DC. Prodr. 1, p. 443. Gerr. & 
McKen.! No. 443. 
Has. A kloof near the Tugela R., Natal, W. 7. Gerrard. (Herb. D.) 
Stem 7-8 feet high. Pubescence rigid, bright yellow, copious on the younger 
pe Petioles 6-10 inches long. Leaves 5-8 inches long, 4-6 inches wide. 
wers pale rosy, with a deeper centre. A native also of Mauritius and Bourbon. 
6. P. odorata (Willd. Sp. 3, p. 837); herbaceous, diffuse or pros- 
trate, the stem, petioles, and peduncles viscidulous, hispid with long, 
patent hairs ; leaves on long petioles, cordate-hastate, bluntly 3-angled 
or lobed, the middle lobe largest, crenate or subentire, stellate-hispid, 
especially beneath ; stipules filiform ; peduncles axillary, slender, one- 
flowered, equalling the petiole ; involucel of 10-12 narrow-linear, rigidly 
ciliate leaflets, twice as long as the calyx; carpels unarmed. DC. 
Bit ba: 444. W. § A. Prodr 1, p. 40. 
AB. In and about D’Urban, Natal, Gerrard and McKen. (Herb. T.C.D. 
‘A prostrate herb, with several stems 1-2 feet long from the va pina Lvs. 
_ various in size and shape, from } to 14 inches long and broad. Flowers white, 
more than half inch across ; petals semi-transparent, with prominent nerves.” W. 
T. G. Pav. triloba, Hochst. in Kotsch. Pl. Nos. 220, sat" vectie to be a variety of 
this : and I fear that Sonder’s Hibi: . ; 
be'w synonym alvo, vhiseus leptocaly, if afresh examined, may prove to 
