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Kiggelaria.] BIXACEH (Harv.) | ae 
flowers solitary, on axillary peduncles 2~3-times as long as the leaf- 
stalks ; calyx tomentose, sepals 5-6, oblong, acute, spreading ; dise 
to-lobed, the lobes rounded, villous ; ovary ovate, tomentose, with 2 
very short styles. Sond. l.c. Royena, n. sp. (15) H.&Z. ! 
Has. Philipstown, Kat River, 2~3000ft. Hck. & Zey. / (Herb. Sond.) 
Branches round, ashy, with whitish warts. Leaves 1 inch long, 8-10 lines wide ; 
petioles 2 lines long. _ Peduncles 3 lines, pubescent. Male flowers unknown. 
VIL KIGGELARIA, Linn. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-parted, deciduous ; sepals valvate in the 
bud. Petals 5, imbricate, coriaceous, each with a fleshy gland at its 
base, inside. Male: stamens 10, crowded in the centre of the flower ; 
filaments short, anthers hard and dry, two-celled, opening by termi- 
nal pores. Female: ovary sessile, one-celled, with 2-5 parietal pla- 
cente ; ovules numerous ; styles 2-5, short. Capsule globose, pubes- 
cent, leathery, many seeded, bursting imperfectly into 2-5 valves. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 257. 
South African shrubs or small trees, without spines. ‘Leaves scattered, petiolate, 
simple, exstipulate. Pubescence stellate, minute. Male flowers in axillary cymes, 
with long pedicels ; females solitary, pedunculate. Named in honour of Francis 
i r, an old Dutch botanist, author of a garden-catalogue, published in 1690. 
1. K. africana (Lin. Sp. 1466); leaves ovato-lanceolate, serrulate, 
acute, membranaceous, thinly tomentose on the lower surface, reticu- 
late ; styles 5. DC. Prod. 1. p.257. Lam. Ill. t. 821. Thunb. Cap. p. 395. 
HL. &.Z.1 No, 116. 
Has. In hedges and waste places. Common about Capetown. Tulbagh, Hck. & 
Zey.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A much branched, erect shrub, 10-15 feet high, becoming almost a tree. Young 
twigs thinly tomentose ; older with a rough, striate bark. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 
argued toothed. Venation-pinnate, with netted intermediate veinlets obvious on 
sides. : 
2. K. Dregeana (Turcz. Animad. p. 63) ; leaves either lanceolate and 
acute at both ends or elliptic-oblong, and obtuse, entire, membranaceous, — 
green and glabrescent above, pale and minutely canescent below ; male 
cymes lax, petals longer than the sepals, their glands ovate, free above. 
Var. a. acuta; leaves acute at both ends, Drege No. 6722! 
Var. 8. obtusa; leaves mostly obtuse, K. integrifolia, #. & Z. 111. 
Has. Zuure 2000ft. Drege / Sitzekamma, Oliphant’s Hoek, and Kaffraria, 
BE. & Z.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Leaves of smaller size and thinner substance than in X. africana ; their margin — 
quite entire. The young leaves have a few scattered stellate hairs on the upper sur- 
face ; the under side is always whitish with minute stellate down. The form is very 
variable, even on the same bush. Turezaninow says “ floribus octandris,” but I find 
ten stamens both in Drege’s and Ecklon’s specimens. The styles have fallen on our 
specimens, but there are § scars on the vertex of the fruit. 
Rit ia v , 
of his plant he finds that the corolla is monopetalous ; and then refers his supposed 
Kiggelaria to Royena polyandra, L.f. ( Euclea elliptica, DC. )/ It is strange that this 
should have escaped the notice of recent writers who continue to quote Jacquin 
an authority. me 
iggelaria integrifolia, Jacq. is a nonentity, as appears by reference to Jac. Je. 
Rar. Vol. 3. p. 19, where this author states that on a re-examination of the flowers — 
