Arthrosolen.l TiiY.MEL.EACE.-K (Wright). 9 



f lin. long, 

 petals ; st 



\ lin. wide, oblong, rounded at the apex, all alike ; 

 amecs 8 in 2 series; anthers dark brown, subsessile ; 

 ovary ovate, compressed, 1 lin. long, with a terminal tuft of straight 

 hairs ; style excentric, filiform, reaching to the lower anthers ; 

 stigma slightly enlarged. Gnidin phseotriclia^ Gihj in 0. Knutze, 

 liev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 281. 



Eastkrn Region: Xatal ; Iiianda, Wood, 241! Brakwaal, 5000 ft,, Wood, 

 65S3, near Durban, Wood, 236, near Charlestown, 5000-6000 ft., Wood, 56S9 i 

 Diviketisberg Range, Cooper^ 3079! Van Reenaus Pass, Kuntzcl Bosch Berg:, 

 4000 ft., MacOwati, 1539 I and without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders I Gevravd, 

 283 ! 



11. A. inconspicuus (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 560) ; a du-arf 

 undei'shrub, much branched; branches opposite or almost verti- 

 cillate, terete, at first minutely puberulous, afterwards ash-coloured 

 and uneven ; leaves opposite, rarely almost in whorls of 4, sessile, 

 spreading, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute, 2-3 (rarely 4) lin. long, 

 nerveless or obscurely 1 -nerved beneath, densely silky-pilose on both 

 surfaces ; flowers in terminal pairs or solitary in the axils of the 

 uppermost leaves, abovit as lon<; as the leaves, white or yellowish 

 silky outside ; calyx-tube scarcely swollen at the apex ; lobes 4, 

 half as long as the tube, oblong, obtuse, glabrous inside, two outer 

 rather "wider, lilac inside, two inner yellow ; anthers 8, sessile, 

 upper 4 exserted. Passerina hiconspicua, Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 

 397. 



SouxH Africa : without locality, Dregc, 7372. 



III. PASSERINA, Linn. 



Fioicers hermaphrodite. CahjxAuhe slender from an ovoid base, 

 circumscissile above the ovary, naked in the throat ; lobes 4, patent, 

 about as long as the tube. Stamens 8, inserted in the calyx- 

 throat, exserted ; filaments rather shorter than the calyx-lobes ; 

 anthers ovate or oblong ; connective narrow. Disc 0. Ovary sub- 

 ile, glabrous, 1-celledj style slendei-ly filiform ; stigma globose, 

 papillate. Fruit dry, included in the persistent base of the calyx ; 

 pericarp membranous. Seed w Ith crustaceous testa ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex. 



Heath-like shrubs ; leaves small, decussate ; flowers in the axils of bracts 

 (usually wider than the leaves) arranged in terminal spikes. 



DisTRiB. Species about 10, all South African. 



Leaves spreading, falcate, 4 Tin. long ( 1 ) falcifolia. 



Leave;4 not spreading, nor closely adpressed to the 

 branches : 



Leaves stoat, 2^ lin. long 



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Galpini 



Le 



Leaves glabrous 



filiformis 



Leaves pilose when young ... ..,- (4) comosa. 



