Schrebera. | OLEACEA (Harvey). 483 
I have carefully examined flowers of S. swietentoides, Roxb., the type of the 
genus, and I find them to agree in structure in every respect with Decandolle’s 
account of Nathusia, above quoted. The purple hairs on the corolla are more 
copious and more diffused in the Indian species ; the filaments shorter, and the 
anthers partly included in the tube; the ovules are 4 and pendulous, exactly as 
in Nathusia, Named in honour of Von Schreber, a celebrated botanist and editor 
of “ Linneus.”—W. H. H, 
Panicle-branches glabrous or finely puberulous ... (1) Saundersia. 
Panicle-branches tomentose it ay i .. (2) argyrotricha. 
1. §. Saundersize (Harv. Thes. ii. 40, t. 163); petiole with a 
narrow wing ; leaflets 3-5, sessile, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, scareely 
oblique at the base, obtusely acuminate ; calyx glabrous, truncate or 
very minutely denticulate. S. latialata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb, xxx. 
73. 
Katanari Reaion: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5950! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Durban, Gerrard, 1153! Berea, near Durban, 
Wood, 5201! Inanda, Wood, 819! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3030! 
A partly scandent large shrub, or small tree 25-30 ft. high. Leaflets 13-2 in, 
long, 3-1 in. wide, the terminal larger, all subcoriaceous, netted-veined beneath, 
Panicle many-flowered, trichotomously much-branched. Bracts 2 lin, long, 
deciduous. Corolla 4 times longer than the calyx, the lobes commonly 6, white, 
with dark purple velvety patches at the base forming a star in the centre of the 
flower, Stamens exserted. 
T have hesitated whether or not to keep this distinct from the Abyssinian 
S. alata (Nathusia alata, Hochst. !), with which it agrees in many particulars, 
That species, however, is said to be a “tall tree.” A fruiting specimen of it in 
the Dublin Herbarium is much more robust, with larger leaves than the Natal 
plant, but otherwise similar ; I have not seen its flowers—IW. H. H. 
2. 8. argyrotricha (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 74); a divaricate 
shrub ; leaves opposite, imparipinnate ; rhachis winged ; leaflets 5, 
oval or obovate-oval, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, 12 in. 
long, about } in, wide, the terminal rather larger, more or less 
coriaceous, puberulous above, densely and shortly pubescent beneath; 
nerves numerous and prominent beneath, reticulate; flowers in 
terminal many-flowered dense panicles at the ends of the branchlets ; 
panicle-branches tomentose, dichasial ; pedicels very short, tomen- 
tose; calyx campanulate, 12 lin. long, irregularly lobed or emargi- 
nate, puberulous, at length glabrescent; corolla glabrous; tube 
narrowly cylindrical, 5 lin. long; lobes half as long as the tube ‘. 
capsule small, woody, glabrous. 
Katanart Reeton: Transvaal; by the great waterfall, near Lydenburg, 
Wilms, 201! 
III. MENODORA, Humb. & Bonpl. 
Calyz deeply 5- to many-lobed, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
the short tube often hairy inside; limb 5-partite, imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 2, on the tube. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4 in each cell ; 
style filiform; stigma capitate. Capsule membranous, didymous, 
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