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to hold good, but it is evidently not a constant character, as sometimes 

 in M. chrysantha (Wood, 4723, E. & Z., 320, 321) the corolla is said 

 to be yellow. 



M. chrysantha (Turez, in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxi (1858), i, 219). 

 A prostrate plant. Stem and branches terete, tomentose. Stipules 

 '9-l - 3 cm. long, about '6 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, brown, mem- 

 branous, glabrous. Leaves petioled, 2-10 cm. long ; petiole '5-2'3 cm. 

 long, terete, tomentose ; lamina 2-8'5 cm. long, -8-4'4 cm. broad, 

 ovate, oblong, elliptic, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded 

 or cordate at the base, with crenate margins, stellately tomentose 

 beneath, glabrous or scantily stellately hairy above. Flowers axillary 

 along the stem, 1-2-nate. Peduncles up to 5'5 cm. long, rarely less 

 than 3 cm. long, terete, tomentose. Bracts about 1 crn. long, linear 

 or ovate-linear, tomentose. Calyx-tube '5-1 cm. long, more or less 

 campanulate, distinctly 10-nerved within, tomentose without ; lobes 

 5-7 mm. long, very rarely less than 5 mm. long, ovate, subacuminate, 

 acute, 3-nerved, and tomentose within and without. Corolla white, 

 cream or yellow. Petals 2 cm. long, 7-8 mm. broad, elliptic or ovate 

 above, obtuse, and narrowed in the lower half to a concave 9-iierved 

 pubescent claw. Stamens 5, adiiate at the very base ; filaments 

 8-1 cm. long, linear, widened into two pi-ocesses about the middle ; 

 processes covered with stellate hairs ; anthers 7 mm. long, produced 

 into a fine subulate point, sparsely pubescent with a few stiff hairs. 

 Ovary subsessile, 6 rnm. long, elliptic in outline, obtusely 5-augled, 

 tomentose ; style 7 mm. long, terete, glabrous ; stigma simple. 

 Planch, in Herb. Hook, ex Harv. Fl. Cap. I, 218 ; M. betonicaefolia, 

 E. & Z. ex Harv., I. c. ; Hermannia geniculata,^. & Z., 1. c. ; Melhania 

 chrysantha, E. Mey. in Zwei Pjtanzengeogr. Document, p. 201. 



Stockenstroom Division, Kat Eiver, near Balfour, E. & Z. 320 ; 

 Albany Division, Grahamstown, Miss M. Daly, 734; Sheldon, Mrs. H. 

 Hntton,5Q\; Kaffraria, Cooper, 347; Somerset East Division, MacOwan, 

 1217; near Cookhouse, L. Kensit in Herb. Bolus, 9312 ; Queeustown 

 Division, near Shiloh, Drege ; Zwarte Kei Eiver, E. & Z., 321 ; 

 Bechuanaland, Burke, 158 ; Orange Free State, near Harrismith, 

 Wood, 4723; Basutoland, Leribe, Madame A. Dieterlen, 43a, 43b ; 

 Phillips, 821 ; Tembuland, Cala commonage, Miss A. Pegler, 1628 ; 

 Bashee Eiver, Collector ? 8805; Griqualaud East, Clydesdale, Tyson, 

 1635 ex parte. 



M. cordata (E. Mey in Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Document, p. 200). 

 Stem terete, tomentose. Stipules '61 "2 cm. long, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, sometimes 3-toothed, tomeutose. Leaves petioled, 

 2'5-7 cm. long; petiole. -8-1'S cm. long, terete, tomentose; lamina 



