Rawsonia.| BIXACE ( Harv.) 67 
Has. Port Natal, Dr, Krauss! Mr. Plant ! Mr. Sanderson (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.) 
A much-branched shrub (without thorns?) Young branches pubescent, older 
with a rough ash-coloured bark, Leaves 2 inches long, midribbed and penninerved, 
with netted veins, rather pale on the under side. Peduncles 2-3 inches long. 
Flowers solitary, erect, more than an inch broad, white. Calyx pubescent ; se- 
pals roundish and very concave. Petals twice as long, spreading, with narrow 
claws, cuneate at base, broadly obovate, with scattered, woolly hairs. Ovary hairy ; 
stigma 5—6-rayed. . eee 
II. RAWSONIA, Harv. & Sond. 
Flowers perfect, or abortively unisexual. Calyx 4—5-parted, the se- 
pals very unequal, concave, imbricate, persistent. Petals 4-5, decidu- 
ous, unequal, concave (like the sepals), imbricate in wstivation. Peta- 
loid-scales opposite the petals and longer than them, hypogynous, each 
with a 2-lobed fleshy gland at base. Stamens very numerous, in several 
rows, the inner hypogynous, the outer attached to the base of the peta- 
loid scales. Anthers sagittate, erect. Ovary on a convex torus, unilo- 
cular, with 4—5 parietal multi-ovulate placenta. Stigma subsessile, 4~5- 
parted. Fruit a berry ? 
A South African shrub, with glabrous and glossy, alternate, exstipulate, serrated 
leaves, and axillary sub-capitate spikes of (yellow ?) flowers. The generic name is 
bestowed in honour of Rawson W. Rawson, Esq., C.B., Secretary to Government, 
Cape of Good Hope ; a gentleman strongly attached to Natural History, and joint 
author of a ‘“ Synopsis Filicum Africe Australis” ; and to whom the authors of the 
Flora Capensis wish to express their sense of obligation for countenance and assist- 
ance afforded to their undertaking. 
1 R. lucida (Harv. & Sond.) 
Has. Colony of Port Natal, Mr. Sanderson. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A shrub or small tree, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblongo-lan- 
ceolate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at base, 3-41 inches long, 14-2 inches wide, 
rigid, glabrous and glossy, penninerved and reticulately veined, sharpl serrulate, 
the serratures 11 lines apart, directed towards the apex of the leaf, ous. Sti- 
pules none. Petioles 2-3 lines long, channelled above. Spikes axillary, cely 
_ as long as the petiole, on = of 2-3 lines, alba i Flowers oe 
sessile, seemingly brownish or greenish yellow. Sepals, petals, and petaloid-scales all, 
among hacageliet; unequal : the longest sepals shorter than the petals ; the petals 
generally shorter than their scales. Stamens numerous, 40-60, longer than the floral — 
envelopes. Perfect and imperfect (male) flowers occur together in the same spike. 
IIL PHOBEROS, Lou. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx persistent, with a short, conical tube, and 
a 10—-12-parted limb; the segments in two rows, the inner ones 
smaller. Disc fleshy, filling the calyx tube ; its margin, opposite the 
bases of the outer calyx segments cut into numerous, glandular lobules. 
Stamens very many, in several rows, within the margin of the disc, 
slightly perigynous ; filaments capillary ; anthers two-celled, acumi_’ 
nate or horned, splitting. Ovary free, sessile, one-celled, formed of 
2~3 carpels, with inflexed edges ; style single, columnar ; stigma sub. 
capitate, bifid ; placentae parietal, riblike ; ovules few. Berry fleshy, 
'3~4 seeded. Wight and Arn. Prod. Vol. 1. p. 29. Endl. Gen. No. 5068, 
Eriudaphus, Nees. Harv. Gen. S. A. Pl. p. 296. — Adenogyrus, Klotsch. 
-Arborescent shrubs or small trees, frequently spiny. Leaver rigid, glabro 
