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with entire sinuate margins, profusely glandular, glabrous above, 
finely pubeseent on the nerves beneath, elsewhere puberulous or 
glabrous, with 8-16 ascending primary nerves on each side, obscure 
above, distinct beneath, 3-23 in. long, 23-11 lin. broad, lateral leaflets 
often much smaller; cymes pedunculate, axillary, divaricate, 
bracteate, finely tomentose, equalling or slightly exceeding the 
leaves ; bracts linear-spathulate, pubescent and glandular, lower 
ones 21-5 lin. long; flowers shortly pedicelled, bracteolate, about 
1 in. long; calyx of the flower campanulate, with a spreading 
shortly 5-lobed limb; tube 10-nerved, prominently 10-ribbed, 
glabrous within, finely pubescent and profusely glandular without, 
1-2 lin. long; lobes ovate-triangular, acute or shortly apiculate, 
keeled, finely pubescent and glandular, 3—% lin. long, }—$ lin. broad 
at the base; corolla-tube straight, profusely glandular and pubescent 
without in the upper three-quarters, puberulous in the anterior 
portion, otherwise glabrous within, about 3 lin. long; lobes pubes- 
cent and glandular; stamens inserted below the middle of the 
corolla-tube, included ; filaments villous at the base; ovary densely 
pubescent and glandular in the upper half ; drupe obconic, shorter 
than the accrescent calyx, profusely glandular, 23-3 lin. long, 
3-2 lin. in diam. 
KALAHARI ReGion; Transvaal; by the Nyl River, Nelson, 101! Makapans 
Berg, at Stryd Poort, Rehmann, 5422! 
Eastern Recton: Natal; on the hillside in “Thorns”? near the Mooi 
River, Wood, 4463 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1510! Sutherland ! 
6. V. reflexa (H. H. W. Pearson); a tree about 15 ft. high ; 
branches subterete, finely tawny-tomentose, when adult with light 
striate lenticellate bark and very prominent leaf-scars ; leaves opposite 
or subopposite, petiolate, 5-foliolate; petiole finely tomentose, 
11-2 in. long; leaflets membranous, oblong-elliptic or obovate, 
subacute or obtuse, cuneate at the base, on grooved tomentose 
petiolules 1-5 lin. long, with entire slightly thickened pubescent 
margins, with 8-12 primary nerves on each side, depressed above, 
prominent beneath, profusely glandular, glabrescent and dark brown 
above, puberulous especially along the midrib and principal nerves 
and lighter in colour beneath, 21-3} in. long, 1-1} in. broad ; 
cymes axillary, pedunculate, divaricate, about as long as the leaves, 
finely tomentose, bracteate; peduncle flattened, 2-2} in. long; 
bracts linear-oblong or -elliptic, acute, puberulous, attenuate at the 
base, about 5 lin. long; flowers shortly pedicelled, bracteolate, - 
4-5 lin. long; calyx of the flower campanulate, with a spreading 
subequally 5-lobed limb; tube 10-nerved, glabrous within, profusely 
glandular and minutely pubescent without, about 2 lin, long; lobes 
broadly and shortly ovate, acute, with prominent reticulate venation, 
profusely glandular, pubescent, 1 lin. long, 14—1} lin. broad ; corolla- 
tube glabrous below, minutely pubescent and profusely glandular 
above the middle on the outside, and with a ring of hairs about the 
