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bi-glandular at base. Stipules subulate or lanceolate. Flowers racemose, corymbose 
or panicled, 2-bracteolate, white or rosy. Fruits sometimes edible. Parinari is 
the name of P. montanuwm, in Guiana. 
1. P. Capense (Harv.) ; a dwarf shrub ; twigs and petioles rufo-vil- 
lous ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, acute or tapering at base, 
glabrous above, albo-tomentose and netted with veins beneath ; inflo- 
rescence corymbulose, shorter than the leaves; bracts ovate ; calyx- 
lobes ovate, acute ; petals oblong, sessile ; stamens 10, shorter than 
the calyx-lobes. Zey.! 537. Burke! 518. 
Has. Aapjes River, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Apparently a dwarf, but ligneous, branching shrub, 6-12 inches high, the younger 
parts clothed with foxy hairs. Leaves 24-4} inches long, 3-1 inch broad, coriaceous, 
9 ac penninerved and strongly veiny. Panicles 1-14 inch long, not much 
ranc. . 
Page 288. Erase the name Potentilla Gariepensis, and substitute : 
(retaining the specific chararcter and remarks) 
1 P. supina (Linn. Sp. 711); DC. Prodr. 2. p. 580. Jacg. Fl. Austr. 
5.t.406. Lehm. Pot. 43. P. Gariepensis, EZ. Mey.! in Herb. Drege. 
Our S. African Potentilla proves, on re-examination, to be merely a small-flowered 
and weaker-stemmed variety of P. supina, Linn. 
Page 304, at the end of Cliffortia, introduce the following :— 
Doubtful Species. 
40? C. flabellifolia (Sond. MSS.); glabrous, robust, much-branched 
and ramulous, procumbent (?) ; twigs angular, the bark splitting length- 
wise ; leaves opposite, decussate, sessile, cuneate-flabelliform, plaited, 
6-7-crenate on the subtruncate apex ; stipules one at each side, minute, 
subulate; flowers unknown. 
Has. Magalisberg, Zeyher/ (Herb. Sond.) . : : 
A small shrub, whose genus cannot at present be satisfactorily ascertained. It 
has the general aspect of a Cliffortia, but the leaves are opposite/ Leaves very 
rigid, 6—7 lines long, 3-4 lines wide. 
Page 309, at the end of Saxifragaces, introduce : 
BREXIA, Thouars. : 
Calyx free, 5-cleft, persistent, with short, acute, coriaceous segments, 
imbricate in estivation. Petals 5, pete ror “ mae ed a 
rigynous ring, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, imbricate In esttvation. 
Miles = tetas with the petals and inserted with them ; filaments 
subulate; anthers oblong, erect, basifixed, slitting. Annular disc thick, 
adnate to the base of the ovary, with 5 fimbriated lobes. Ovary supe- 
rior, 5-angled, 5-celled, ovules very numerous, on axile placenti. Style 
very short; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit’ oblong, with a ligneous pericarp, 
5-celled, many-seeded. Hmbryo exalbuminous, straight, almond-like ; 
cotyledons fleshy, ovate, obtuse ; radicle very short, Endl. Gen. No. 
4081. 
i M: and South Africa, with alternate, exstipulate, 
eee, goeite passer ay and axillary or terminal subumbellate, green 
flowers. ‘The name is said to be from Apetis, rain; because the foliage may afford 
shelter in rain. 
