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broad, plano-compressed, slightly furrowed between the seeds, mucro- 
nate, covered with plumose sete.—Stem, petioles, leaflets, peduncles, 
calyces, ovary, and legumes (all parts of the plant except the petals and 
stamens) are thickly sprinkled with black, hemispherical, resinous dots. 
This is the only species of the genus yet known, and appears to be of 
rare occurrence, It was not found by Leklon, Drege, Burke, or Zeyher. 
A solitary specimen, from which our figure is taken, was sent to me, in 
1840, by Miss Owen, from some part of the Zooloo Country. 
Fig. 1, Melanosticta Burchellii ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a leaflet; 3, the calyx, 
artificially pulled open, and viewed in front ; 4, the petals; 5, stamens; 6, ovary; and 
7, the same, cut longitudinally. The latter figures more or less magnified. 
III. STERCULIA ALEXANDRI, Harv. (Sterculiacee.) 
S. Alexandri: foliis digitatim compositis quinatis; foliolis oblongis 
obtusis mucronulatis basi acutis glabris reticulatis; racemis pauci-fioris 
petiolo brevioribus ; calyce campanulato 5~7 fido utrinque puberulo.— 
Harv. Proc. Dub. Univ. Zool. & Bot. Assn., vol. i., p. 140, t. 15. 
_ Haz.—Mountain Kloof, near Uitenhage; very rare. Dr. Alewander Prior. (Herb. 
T.C. D.). 
Derscr.—A small, soft-wooded, thick-stemmed tree, with naked, 
rough-barked branches, leafy towards the extremities. Leaves alternate, 
digitate, glabrous; the petiole 2-4 inches long, expanded and articu- 
lated at the summit; leaflets 5-7, oblong, cuneate at base, obtuse and 
round-pointed, mucronulate, strongly midribbed, reticulated with closely 
branching veinlets. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, few-flowered, 
much shorter than the petiole; peduncles multibracteate at base, 
thinly pubescent; pedicels slender, longer than the calyx. Calyx cam- 
panulate, 5-7 cleft; segments ovate-oblong, subacute, thinly downy, and 
velvetty-canescent on both surfaces. Staminal column curved, puberu- 
lous. Female flowers not known. 
Allied to S. fetida, but with very differently shaped leaflets; much 
shorter racemes; and the calyces internally thinly pubescent, not densely 
hirsute and woolly. It is not a little curious that a conspicuous shrub 
or tree like this should have escaped the notice of the lynx-eyed Zeyher, 
who so long resided at Uitenhage, and must have repeatedly botanized 
all round its locality. 
Fig. 1, Sterculia Alexandri, the natural size. Fig. 2, the staminal column, with a 
portion of the calyx, shown behind; 3, an anther. These figures magnified. 
IV. ANAGALLIS HUTTONI, Harv. (Primulacee.) 
5 ; ; = hoe 
A. Huttoni: caulibus tetragonis decumbentibus v. basi repentibu 
vix ramosis, foliis rotundato-ovatis obtusis petiolatis, pedicellis folio 
longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis, corolle rotate laciniis acutis, filamentis 
late-subulatis pilosis.— Zarv., Proc. Dub. Univ. Zool. & Bot, Assn., vol. 
‘, p. 141, t. 16. 
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