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l - 5-6 cm. long, '8-5 cm. broad, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 

 cordate at the base, with creuate margins, stellate ly tomeutose below, 

 scantily stellate hairy above. Flowers in terminal panicles. Pedicels 

 6-1 '2 cm. long, terete, tomentose. Brads about 5 mm. long, linear, 

 tomentose. Calyx-tube 4-5 mm. long, more or less campauulate, 

 glabrous and usually 5-nerved within, tomentose without ; lobes 

 2-3 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute, tomeutose without, glabrous 

 within. Corolla yellow. Petals '9-1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, broadly 

 ovate above, rounded at the apex, narrowed in the lower half, the 

 narrow portion being concave, tomentose, and 3-nerved. Stamens 5, 

 aduate at the very base ; filaments 45 mm. long, linear, widened into 

 two processes above the middle of their lengths ; processes covered 

 with stellate hairs ; anthers 3 - 5 mm. long, acuminate, acute, ciliate 

 with a few short hairs. Ovary shortly stalked, 2'5-3 mm. long, 

 obovate in outline, obtusely 5-angled, tomentose ; style 1 cm. long, 

 terete, glabrous ; stigma simple. 



Stonnberg, Drege ; Transvaal, Hoog Veld above Irene, Burtt-Davy, 

 31; Heidelberg, Schleclt ter, 3534; Orange Free State, Bester's Vlei, 

 Harrismith, Bolus, 8127, Cooper, Flanagan, 1884, Caledon River 

 Burke ; Basutoland, Leribe, Madame A. Dieterlen, 47 ; Griqualand 

 East, Clydesdale, Tyson, 1635 ex parte. 



TILIACEAE. 



GREWIA, Linn. 



G. occidentalis, Linn. 



Mountain slopes. 3-8 ft. high, flowers violet. Summer. A. Dieter- 

 len, 357 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : S.W. Africa. Cape. Uitenhage. Albany. Cradock. 

 Komgha. Natal. Transvaal (Potatobosch). 



SESTJTO : Lesika. Sinew of an ox, or a thread made of sinews of 

 cattle. So called on account of the long fibres in the bark. Wood 

 used to lance or scarify and for making pegs. Also used medicin- 

 ally. 



2. G. hispida, Harv. 



Bester's Vlei, near Witzie's Hoek, 5400 ft., December, Bolus, 8129 ! ; 

 Eland's Eiver Valley, near Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., January, 

 Flanagan, 2016 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Natal. 



