Natalia.| MELIANTHE (Sond.) 369 
as in M. comosa, the upper t 6 lines long, the lower wide, lateral narrow. 
Rudiments only of the petals have been o . Ovary tomentose, depressed at 
each end, obtusely —. Style subulate. Fruit remarkable in the ge- 
nus. Capsule 4 lines long, loculicidal beyond the middle and to the very base 4- 
valved, the valves inflexed at the point, when hard, sub-ligneous, septiferous in 
the middle, turgid, but longitudinally im at back. Seeds two in each cell, 
rarely solitary, exarillate, sub-globose, black, smooth and shining. Embryo straight, 
in the midst of horny albumen.—A remarkable species, approaching Bersama and 
Natalia in the nature of its capsule. 
Tribe II. Bersamex. Pl. 1 c. p. 416. 
Flowers not resupinate. Calyx neither large nor conspicuously irre- 
gular, the two anterior sepals more or less concreted together. Petals 
5, longer than the calyx, the anterior narrower than the rest, all free 
and equidistant. Stamens 4-5. Ovary 4-5-celled; cells r-ovuled ; 
ovules axile, ascending from the base of the cell, Stigmatic-lobes 
4-5, thick, approaching in a cone. Capsule coriaceous, loculicidally 
splitting into 4—5 septiferous valves. Seeds with a cup-shaped, fleshy 
adnate arillus, Bracts minute. Flowers spreading or nodding. 
II. NATALIA, Hochst. 
Calyx with its two anterior segments connate in one bidentate lobe, 
four-parted, unequal. Petals 5, oblong, clawed. Gland fleshy, half- 
moon-shaped. Stamens four, hypogynous, two anterior dilated at base 
and connate, the posterior free. Ovary bluntly four-angled, four-celled. 
Style ascending ; stigma pyramidal. Capsule coriaceous, sub-globose, 
loculicidally 4-valved. Hochst. in Flora, 1841, p. 663. Pl. in Hook. 
Ic. t. 780. Endl. Gen. suppl. 4. p. 80. 
Shrubs, or small trees, with alternate, imparipinnate leaves ; the leaflets in two 
or many pair, very entire or serrulate. Stipules intra-axillary, connate in one. 
Flowers racemose, the pedicels subtended at base by a minute bract. 
2M Icons (Hochst. Le) 5 Rhagams tidus, E.Mey! in Hb. 
Has. Woods at Port Natal, Drege, Krauss, T. Williamson, Gueinzius. Mar.- 
Apr. (Herb. Sond., Hook., T.C.D.). 2 
A shrub, 8-10 feet high, with glabrous branches. Leaves petiolate. Leaflets in 
two pairs, with an odd one, minutely petiolulate, obovate, obtuse, mucronulate or 
retuse, quite entire, shining, su the smaller 14-2 inches 
long, an inch wide, the 3 inches 13-1} wide. Racemes inches 
long, minutely downy. Pedicels 3 . Calyx 1} lines long. Petals 
white, Gowsy 9° ae oe oe Capsule 4 inch long ; valves wi A 
dle, corruga’ 
ORDER XXXVII. RUTACEZ, DC. 
: | (By W. Sonper.) neg 
Juss, Gen. 296, ex pte. Rutacew, DC. Prod. 1. ‘p70 
- Endl. Gen. cclii. Lindl. Veg. King, No. elxxvi. Diese 
- Flinder’s Voy., Endl. Gen. No. ccli. - oy 
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