540 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
foliis suboppositis etalternis, petiolatis, ovato-oblongis obtusis, 
penninerviis v. spurie triplinerviis ; pedunculis axillaribus, 
solitariis, brevissimis, umbellam 3-8-floram gerentibus ; flori- 
bus 5-meris, calyce brevissimo, subtruncato ; corolle tubo 
tereti, subclavato, basi ovato-inflato, fauce angustata, limbo 
ante explicationem subconico obtuso, laciniis erectis apice 
dia coherentibus basi attenuatis superne concavo-spathu- 
latis; staminibus fauci insertis, demum  recurvo-exsertis, 
filamentis complanatis, apice antice brevissime auriculatis, 
antheris basifixis anguste linearibus; stylo corollam aquante, 
superne incrassato sulcato, apice iterum attenuato, stigmate 
subcapitato truncato. Parasiticam in umbrosis sylvarum 
prope Port Natal (V. c.) Nov. 1839, legit Dr. Ferd. Krauss, 
n..125. 
A very distinguished species, belonging perhaps rather to 
De Candolle’s second section (Symphyanthus), of which no 
South African species is known, than to the third (Scurrula) ; 
inasmuch as the limb of the corolla is generally split 
and always quite regularly into 5 perfectly equal segments 
which remain erect, the tube usually remaining entire, for 
only in a few flowers I find it split too, but very unequally 
and irregularly (as it were, accidentally) by one or two deep 
 fissures. The twigs are somewhat compressed towards the 
extremity. Leaves two inches long, gne inch broad, with a 
petiole of 2-3-lines. The nerves are very thin and truly 
pinnate, but the superior ones frequently so inconspicuous 
totally obliterated that the leaves might be called tripli or 
quintuplinervia. 'The general peduncles are but one or two 
lines long, the pedicels a little longer, and there is a minute 
broad blunt scale-like bracteole at the base of the calyx. 
Corolla 18-20 lines long; its limb 3 lines long, is at first 
separating from each other only at their base which then 
takes somewhat a ventricose appearance. The stamens are 
at first curved down into the tube, almost as in Melastoma- 
cee, and afterwards become recurved outward ; if quite erect 
they would reach to the top of the laciniz of the corolla. 
