2 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
broadly oblong, sessile, of a thick, glossy substance, and bright crimson 
colour, thrice as long as the calyx, ciliolate. S/amens in two rows: those 
of the outer row abortive, connate into a fleshy cup or nectary, the anther 
replaced by a peltate gland; those of the der row fertile, free, and 
much exserted. Anthers didymous. Ovary formed of 5 carpels, 
whose inflexed edges cohere round a very narrow central cavity, unilo- 
cular; placentse at the ventral sutures. Capsule membranous, deeply 
5-lobed, almost resolved into 5 follicles; seeds minute, with abundant 
fleshy albumen and a small basal embryo. 
For a fuller account of this very remarkable plant, see the memoir 
above quoted. The exact natural affinities are, perhaps, not yet settled, 
and I place it in Saxifragacee provisionally. In some characters it agrees 
with Brexia; but the copious albumen in the seeds and the unilocular 
ovary are strong points of difference. The foliage is not unlike that of 
a Ribes or of the scarlet Pelargoniums. 
The genus is, by Sir William Hooker and myself, dedicated in ho- 
nour of Sir George Grey, K. C.B., Governor-General of the Cape Colony ; 
and the species is named after its discoverer, Dr. Peter Sutherland, 
Surveyor-General of Port Natal, to whom I am indebted for many other 
interesting plants, some of which will be figured in this work. 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch, and Fig. 2, a leaf of Greyia Sutherlandi, the natural size. 
Fig. 3, bract, pedicel, and calyx; 4, a petal; 5, apex ofa fertile stamen; 6, the ovary, 
surrounded by the ring of abortive stamens, or neetary; 7, the nectary laid open; 8, sec- 
tion of the ovary ; 9, the ripe capsules; 10, section of a seed; 11, the embryo. The latter 
figures variously magnified. 
Il. MELANOSTICTA BURCHELLII, DC. ( Leguminose. ) 
M. Burchellii, DC. Leg. Mem. tab. 69, DC. Prod. 2, p. 485. 
Has.—South Africa, Burchell, Cat., No. 2345. Near Port Natal, Miss Owen. 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.— oot perennial, thick, and woody. Stems several, subsimple, 
erect, herbaceous or suffruticose at base, angular, sparsely plumoso- 
setose, as are petioles and peduncles. Leaves bipinnate; pinne two 
pair and an odd one; the lateral pinne stipellate, 6-8 foliolate, the ter- 
minal much longer, 16-18 foliolate; leaflets obliquely elliptical, flat, 
with immersed veins. Stipules membranous, lacerato-pinnatifid; stipelle 
several, subulate. Peduncles opposite the leaves, elongate, laxly race- 
mose, several-flowered ; flowers pendulous, the corolla scarcely longer than 
the calyx. Calyx campanulate, short-tubed, deeply divided, the four 
posterior segments oblong, obtuse, sub-equal; the anterior longer and 
broader than the rest, sharply toothed at its extremity. Petals 5; the 
four anterior subequal, obovate, tapering into short claws; the posterior 
(vexillum) broad-based, with infolded edges, rather shorter and broader 
than the rest. Stamens 10, free, subhypogynous, with filiform-subulate 
filaments and rounded anthers; the 5 superior slightly setose, the rest 
glabrous. Ovary sessile, 4 ovuled, setose, oblong, tapering into a 
straight, short style; stigma simple. Legume 1-14 inch long, 3-4 lines 
