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and upper 1-14 inches long, from 14 to 3 lines wide, linear-oblong, 
slightly narrowed to the base, sub-acute, acute, or acuminate, thick and 
opaque, with a faint midrib, and flat or slightly recurved margin. The — 
whole plant is glabrous. Peduncles solitary, in the axil of each leaf’, and 
about equally long, slender, with a pair of opposite, lanceolate bracts 
near the summit. Calyx semi 5-fid, with a conical tube, equalling the 
ovate, acute segments. Coralla thrice as long as the calyx, ringent; 
the stamens and style much exserted. Drupe ovoid, twice as long as 
the persistent, patent calyx. 
A distinctly marked species ofa curious genus, of which there are at 
least two or three others found in the Natal Country, one of which 
(C. myricoides, Hochst.) is a shrub, and a native also of Abyssinia. 
Fig. 1, Cyclonema triphyllum: the natural size. Fig. 2, the calyx; 3, the corolla, 
with stamens and style; 4, apex of a stamen; 5, the ovary; 6,adrupe. The latter 
figures enlarged. 
XXVIII. BOUCHEA CUNEIFOLIA, Schauer. ( Verbenacea.) = 
B. cuneifolia: glabriuscula, foliis carnosulis flabellato-cuneatis basi 
attenuata sessilibus apice rotundato grosse dentato-serrato dentibus 
acumiuulatis, spicis alaribus terminalibusque elongatis gracilibus laxi- 
floris subtilissime pubescentibus, bracteislanceolatis acutie pathicello mauni- 
festo basi bibracteolato brevioribus, calyce brevidentato, fructifero antice 
et inferius fisso, capsula calycem subequante obtusi rugulosa basi ex- 
cavata! Schauer, m DC. Prod. xi., p. 559. Buchnera cunerfolia, 
Thunb. Fl. Cap., p. 466. B. cernua, Houtt. L. Syst. viii., p. 129, t. 58, 
f. 2. Phryma deliscens, L. Suppl. p. 277. Chascanum cuneifolium, 
EF. Mey. Com. Drege, p. 276. Harv. Gen. S.A. Pl., p. 269. Maund. § 
_ Hensl. Bot., 4, t. 196. 
Has.—In the Eastern Districts and Caffreland, extending to Port Natal. Welte- 
vrede, 2500-3000 feet. Between Zuureberg and Klein-Bruintgeshogte, 2000-2500 feet, 
near Glenfilling, 1000 feet, and at Port Natal, Drege, Krebs, Krauss, &c. Hills near * 
Bushman’s River, Uit. Zeyher, Uitenhage, Dr. Alewander Prior. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Stem 12-18 inches high, suffruticose, erect, oppositely 
branched, 4-angled, glabrescent or minutely puberulous; branches erecto- 
patent, virgate. Leaves opposite, shorter than the internodes, 3-5 lines 
long, patent, between cuneate and fan-shaped, rounded and coarsely- 
toothed at the apex, tapering at base into an imperfect petiole, thick in 
substance, not conspicuously veiny, and turning black in drying. 
Spikes (spicate-racemes) either terminal or in the forking of two 
branches, 3-6 inches long, straight, laxly several-flowered : bracts su- 
bulate, minute, shorter than the pedicel, which is minutely bibractco-_ 
lated at base, and 14-2 lines long. Calyx 4-5 lines long, linear-pris- 
matic, with 5 prominent ribs, and 5 alternate furrows, truncate, mi- 
nutely five-toothed : that of the frait splitting lengthwise. Tube of the 
corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx; limb spreading, capsule 24 
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