Nuvi, | LOGANIACE® (Prain and Cummins). 1041 
silky. DC. Prodr. x. 435; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 124 ; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 335; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 700 ; 
Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 513; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 
1903, 403 (var. transvaalensis). N. oppositifolia, Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. x. 435. N. Schlechteri, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 140. 
Lachnopylis oppositifolia, Hochst. in Flora, 1843, 77 ; A.DC. in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 23. 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Komati Poort, 330 ft., Schlechter, 11738! 
_ Johannesburg, Rand, 1132! by the Mbetane River, near Leydsdorp, and Masetana 
River, near Shilovane, Junod, 1430 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; near the Nonoti River, Wood, 3578! and without 
precise locality, Gerrard, 716! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
4. N. breviflora (8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 403) ; a shrub ; 
bark grey, lacerate ; leaves usually in 3-nate whorls, coriaceous, 
densely stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, obovate or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse or retuse, base rounded entire, margin elsewhere 
entire or remotely serrate, 6-9 lin. long, 3-6 lin. wide; petiole 
short ; cymes in rather dense corymbs 11 in. across ; bracts narrow- 
linear, 14 lin. long ; flowers pedicelled ; pedicels up to 1 lin. long ; 
calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long ; tube outside tomentose, within 
densely adpressed white silky ; corolla 14 lin. long, in bud rounded 
but shortly apiculate at the tip; lobes hardly longer than tube, 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, silky outside, ovary silky. é 
Kananart Recron: Transvaal; Johannesburg, northern escarpment of Wit- 
waters Rand series, Rand, 712! 
5. N. pubescens (Sond. in Linnia, xxiii, 84); a shrub or small 
tree, 5~20 ft. high; bark grey, lacerate ; leaves usually in 3-nate 
whorls, subcoriaceous, glandular and sometimes densely, more often 
sparingly, pubescent on both surfaces, occasionally nearly, rarely 
quite glabrous, elliptic-oblong or ovate, acute or obtuse, base cuneate 
entire, margins elsewhere entire or remotely serrate, 1-14 (rarely 
2) in. long, $—} (rarely 1) in. wide ; petiole 1-1} lin. long; cymes 
in rather lax corymbose panicles 2—4 in. across; bracts spathulate 
or oblanceolate, 1 lin. long ; flowers ali pedicelled ; pedicels slender, 
1-1} lin. long; calyx narrow-campanulate, 2 lin. long, coriaceous ; 
tube outside glandular-pubescent or puberulous, within densely 
adpressed white’ silky ; corolla white, 24 lin. long, in bud conical 
acute ; lobes hardly as long as tube, oblong, acute, apex cucullate 
usually silky outside, inner face caruncled ; ovary silky in the upper 
half; capsule 2 lin. long, densely white-silky. N. congesta, var. 
brevifolia, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 83. 
