1040 LOGANIACE (Prain and Cummins). [Nuaia. 
beset with short silky hairs or quite glabrous ; corolla white, 1} lin. 
long, glabrous outside, in bud obtuse ; lobes narrow ligulate, obtuse, 
longer than tube; ovary glabrous. DC. Prodr. x. 435; Pappe, 
Silva Cap. ed. 2, 30; Fourcade, Rep. Natal For. 1889, 115; Sim, 
For. Fl. Cap. 274, t. 157; Wood and Evans, Natal Plants, i. 48, 
t.59. Chilianthus triphyllus, E. Meyer, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 172. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Mund and Maire! 
Coast Rearon: George Div. ; near George, Prior! Knysna Div. ; near the 
Knysna River ford, Burchell, 5537! in the forest at Knysna, Burchell, 5448 ! 
Bolus, 2145! Kaatjes Kraal, near Yzer Nek, Burchell, 5240! between Keurbooms 
River and Bitou River, Burchell, 5295! Humansdorp Div. ; between Kromme 
River and Gamtoos River, Drége! Storms River Forest, 500 ft., Galpin, 4333 ! 
Uitenhage Div. ; between Van Standens River and Galgebosch, Burchell, 4763 ! 
near Uitenhage, near streams, Burchell, 4241! banks of the Zwartkops River and 
ravines of Van Standens Berg, Zeyher! Uitenhage, Hcklon ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 
Krakakama, Zeyher ! 
Eastern Rearon: Natal; hills near Illovo River, Gerrard, 1893! Tnanda, 
Wood, 980! Western Zululand, Baker in Herb. Evans, 528. 
2. N. gracilis (Engl. Jahrb. x. 243) ; a shrub 8-10 ft. high ; bark 
brownish-grey ; leaves usually opposite, decussate, firmly papery, 
glandular, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, base narrow-cuneate from the 
middle and entire, margin elsewhere finely serrately toothed, 1-2 in. 
long, 14-34 lin. wide ; petiole 1 lin. long; cymes many, umbelli- 
form in corymbose panicles }-2 in, across ; bracts narrow-spathu- 
late or linear, 14-2 lin. long, glandular-puberulous ; pedicels all 
subequal, 2-21 lin. long, slender, glandular-puberulous ; calyx 
campanulate, 14 lin. long, coriaceous; tube outside glandular- 
puberulous, within densely adpressed white-silky ; corolla white, 
2 lin. long, glabrous outside, in bud obtuse; lobes ovate, obtuse, 
rather shorter than tube ; ovary glabrous (or puberulous) ; capsule 
1} lin, long, sparsely finely pubescent with short hairs. 
Katanart Recon: Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1817! 
Upper Campbell, Burchell, 1827! in stony places at 4000 ft., Marloth ! 
In Burchell’s two gatherings the ovary is glabrous; his plants agree 2s 
regards leaves, inflorescence, bracts, pedicels and calyx with that collected by 
Marloth, which is represented at Kew by a specimen in fruit, where the capsules 
are finely pubescent. 
3, N. dentata (R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 63); a shrub 
7-10 ft. high ; bark grey ; leaves usually opposite, decussate, papery, 
glabrous, lanceolate or narrow-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
- narrow-cuneate from the middle and entire, margin elsewhere remotely 
obscurely toothed, 1-3 in. long, usually 2-5 lin. wide, occasionally 
wider ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; cymes numerous in thyrsoid panicles ; : ae 
4-1 in. across; bracts narrow-lanceolate, 1 lin. long; terminal — 
pedicels 2 lin., lateral 1 lin. long; calyx narrow-campanulate, 2 lin. 
long, subcoriaceous ; tube outside glabrous, within densely adpressed 
__white-silky ; corolla white, 2} lin. long, glabrous outside, in bud 
_ obtuse ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than 
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