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Gardenia dumetorum, Retz.; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 354. А single specimen, without 
either flower or fruit, may belong to.this species, 
Hab. Madi; Feb. 1863, Col. Grant! 
R. dumetorum is a common Indian Species; and we have specimens of perhaps the same from Mo- 
zambique. 
[A prickly shrub at 3° N. lat., unknown to our men. Fruit the size of a small nut; four-celled, ripe 
in February ; grows in sandy soil.—J. А. G.J 
12. GARDENIA LUTEA, Fresenius, in Mus. белек, ii. 167; App. Speke’s Journ. 636. 
Hab. Madi, in flower Feb. 1863 (leafless specimen), Col. Grant! Also in Abyssinia. 
[Shrub 10 feet high, common everywhere. Its branches are so angular that there is not one foot of 
them straight. The thorns, in whorls of three, are blunted and woody. Leaves shining dark green ; 
corolla fleshy, and changes from white to yellow as it gets exposed. Flower scented. Fruit when ripe is 
3 inches long by 1 across; its surface is like that of a rough date, not edible, six-celled, numerously 
seeded ; and the seeds smell richly of dried figs, each seed enclosed in a transparent glutinous coating. It 
is a first-rate fence against wild animals in Madi; a single branch closes а doorway against man and 
beast.* “Тһе natives cure hematuria (blood in the bladder) by drinking a decoction of its roots boiled in 
Sorghum-flour, and сай thé shrub ze millamathembo” and “ kolölah.”—J. А. G.J 
13. PLECTRONIA VENOSA, Oliv; sp. nov. Arbor glabra; ramulis teretibus, novellis com- 
pressiusculis ; foliis petiolatis, ovato- v. oblongo-ellipticis lanceolatisve, subacute v. obtuse 
acuminatis, basi cuneatis rotundatisve, nervo medio secundariisque lateralibus subtus 
prominentibus, venulis subtransversis ; cymis axillaribus, subglobosis, densis, breviter 
pedunculatis, pedunculo recurvo v. patente ; pedicellis primum brevissimis, fructiferis bac- 
cam subæquantibus; calyce campanulato, glabro, 4-dentato; corolla brevi, glabra, lobis tubo 
paulo brevioribus, fauce pilosula; staminibus breviter, stylo longiuscule exserto; bacca 
sæpius abortu 1-loculari, subglobosa, interdum biloculari late obcordata.— Canthium, sp., 
App. Speke’s Journ. 686. | 
Rami graciles, erassitie pennæ corvinæ, ultimi compressiusculi, obsolete ferrugineo-puberuli. Folia 4-5 
poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata; petiolus 1-2 poll. Stipule lanceolato-subulatæ, caduce. Cyma multiflora, 
I poll. diam. ; pedunculus 4-2 poll. longus. Flores (alabastro) å poll. longi. Вассе uniloculares pisi 
magnitudine, biloculares 5 lin. latæ. Г 
Hab. Madi, flower and fruit, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! 
[Tree in fruit December at 3° N. lat. Fruit in thick clusters of hard, 1-2-seeded berries.—J. A. G.] 
Plate XLIX. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Corolla, laid open; fig. 3. Stamen; fig. 4. Pistil 
and calyx; fig. 5. Vertical, and fig. 6. Transverse section of ovary; fig. 7. Fruit, laid 
open. 
14. FADOGIA FUCHSIOIDES, Welw. MS. in herb. Frutex glaber; ramulis trigonis ; 
foliis ternis, obovato-ellipticis v. late ellipticis, obtusis v. obtuse apiculatis, glabris, bre- 
vissime petiolatis; floribus axillaribus, folio brevioribus v. subæquilongis, soktariis v. 
pedunculo bifido geminatis; calyce truncato, dentibus obsoletis; corolla tubulosa, tubo 
extus glabro, intus piloso, lobis 6-7 refractis apiculatis 2-plo longiore; staminibus ex- 
sertis; stylo crassiusculo, apice attenuato; stigmate capitato, calathiformi-dilatato. 
Folia subcoriacea, reti venularum inconspicuo, 2-23 poll. longa, 14-12 poll. lata; petiolus 1-2 lin. v. 
folium subsesssile. Stipule breves, subulatæ, persistentes ; vagina brevissima, primum ciliata. Pedunculus 
simplex vel bifurcatus, 3-4 poll. longus, glaber, in calycem gradatim dilatatus. Corolla 1—1 poll. longa, lobis 
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