72 z5 VIOLARIEZ (Sond.) [Blackwellia. 
3. K. ferruginea (E. & Z.! Enum. No. 118) ; leaves oblong or ovato- 
lanceolate, coriaceous, entire or denticulate, covered with rust-coloured 
pubescence on both sides ; styles (according to E. & Z.) two. K. africana, 
EL. Mey. ! in Herb. Drege (non Linn ). . 
Has. Dry places on the Kamiesberg, FZ. § Z./ Paarlberg ; Dutoits Kloof, Lelie- 
fontein ; and near Beaufort, Drege / (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Every part covered with rusty, stellate pubescence. Leaves very variable in 
shape, stamens sometimes 11-12. I have seen no female flowers. Glands of the 
petals dark, adhering by their backs to the face of the petal. Eck. & Zey. attribute 
but two styles to this species, and I cannot contradict them, though I think I detect 
the scars of five on the old capsules. 
VIIL BLACKWELLIA, Comm. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx persistent, with a conical tube and multi- 
partite (10-30-cleft) limb ; segments in two rows, the inner oneslargest.. 
A gland opposite the base of each of the outer segments. Stamens peri- 
gynous, alternating with the glands, singly, or in parcels of 2 or 3 ; 
filaments filiform ; anthers didymous, opening longitudinally, Ovary 
half-inferior, one-celled, with 3-5 parietal placentz ; styles 3-5, subu- 
late, divergent ; ovules few, pendulous. Capsule one or few seeded. 
DC. Prod. 2. p. 54. 
Shrubs or small trees, natives of Mauritius, Madagascar and Tropical Asia. 
_ Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, toothed or entire, glabrous or pubescent, pen- 
_ ninerved. Flowers in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes or panicles, small. The 
name is given in honour of Mrs. Eliz. Blackwell, author of “A curious Herbal, 
containing 500 cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of 
Physic, London, 1737 ;” a work of much merit, which has been translated into 
and Latin. An account of the authoress may be found in Pulteney’s 
Sketches, Vol. 2. p. 251. 
1. B. rufescens (E. Mey. !-Harv.) ; leaves elliptic-oblong, entire or 
denticulate ; panicles axillary, longer than the leaves ; perianth 16-18- 
parted ; stamens 8-9. Pythagorea rufescens, E. Mey. 
Has. Port Natal, Drege! Gueinzius/ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Harv.) 
A much branched, nearly glabrous shrub. Leaves 1-1} inches long, obtuse or 
subacute, prominently ribbed, penni-nerved and reticulate below ; on short petioles. 
Panicles axillary and terminal, divaricately branched ; peduncles minutely pubes- 
cent ; pedicels as long as the flowers. Perianth tomentose, its limbabout 16-parted ; 
lacinie linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Stamens half as many as the segments of the 
perianth, alternating with as many fleshy glands ; anthers globose, didymous. Ovary 
very hairy, unilocular, half sunk in the calyx tube. Flowers seemingly reddish. 
Orper XI. VIOLARIEA, DC. 
(By W. Sonper. ) Ee 
(Violariew, DC. Prod. 1. p. 287. Endl. Gen. No. exe. Violacex, 
Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No, exit s “ 
Flowers mostly irregular. Sepals 5, persistent, imbricate, orten pro- 
duced at base, Petals 5, mostly unequal ; one spurred, marcescent. 
Stamens 5, alternate with the petals ; filaments short and broad, con- 
nate at base, hypogynous ; anthers introrse, adnate, the connective 
prolonged into a crest beyond the loculi, (two often spurred at. base). 
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