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inches wide, rigid, glabrous and glossy, penninerved and reticulately - 
veined, sharply serrulate, the serratures 14 lines apart, callous. S#i- 
pules none. Petioles 2-38 lines long, channelled. Sprkes axillary, 
scarcely twiceas long as the petiole, densely few-flowered or subcapitate, 
on very short peduncles. /Vowers (judging from the dried specimens) 
yellowish? Sepals, petals, and petalocd scales all unequal. Stamens 
emit exserted. Perfect and imperfect flowers are found on the same 
spike, 
A distinctly marked genus, dedicated by the authors of the ‘ Flora 
Capensis” to the Hon. Rawson W. Rawson, C. B., Colonial Secretary at 
the Cape; an ardent promoter and efficient patron of Botany in South 
Africa, It forms a shrub, with handsome, laurel-like foliage. The struc- 
ture of the flowers is curious; and the petaloid scales are evidently 
homologous with the fimbriated rays of Passifloracee, an Order which 
the present genus serves to connect still closer with Biracee. In Raw- 
sonia the inner stamens are hypogynous; the outer perigynous! The 
habit is not unlike that of Smeathmannia laevigata. 
Fig. 1, Rawsonia lucida, flowering branch the natural size. Fig. 2, two unopened 
flower buds, in situ; 3, 3, smaller and larger petals; 4, 4, petaloid scales of different 
shapes, from the same flower; 5, stamens attached to the base of a petaloid-scale, which 
is opposed to a petal; 6, ovary on its stipe, subtended by the persistent calyx; 7, 
transverse section of the ovary. The latter figures enlarged. 
XXXII. SCHOTIA BRACHYPETALA, Sond. (Leguminose. ) 
S. brachypetala: foliis abrupte pinnatis, foliolis 4-5-jugis obovatis 
oblongisve obtusis v. emarginatis mucronulatis supra nitidulis reticulato- 
venosis, panicula racemosa abbreyiata, sepalis basi concretis, petalis mi- 
nutis linearibus calycis tubo inclusis, filamentis in tubo connatis alterne 
minoribus, ovario lanceolato-stipitato. Sond. in Linn., vol. xxiii. p. 39. 
Has.—Port Natal, Dr. Gueinzius. In sheltered valleys, where the soil is dry and 
rocky, 3000 feet, Dr. Sutherland! At 2000 feet, Mr. Sanderson! Fl. Sep. (Herb. 
T.C. D. comm. cl. Hook.) 
Desor.—A large shrub or small tree, glabrous, or nearly so. Leaves 
scattered, abruptly pinnate, with 4—5 pair of leaflets; leaflets13-23in. long, 
1-14 broad, opposite, subsessile ovate-oblong or elliptical, obtuse, mu- 
cronulate or muticous, reticulate with slender veins. Panieles axillary, 
shorter than the leaves, much branched, and many-flowered; bracts 
small, caducous. Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx richly-co- 
loured, crimson, with a turbinate tube and 5-parted limb ; the segments 
broadly elliptical, concave, imbricated, very obtuse. Petals very minute, 
hidden in the base of the calyx-tube, linear. Stamens 10, exserted, 
combined at base into a campanulate tube, 5 opposite the petals, shorter 
than the rest. Ovary on a long stipe, lanceolate, corrugated on the 
ventral margin, glabrous; style filiform, arched ; stigma capitate. 
A very ornamental shrub, whose brilliantly coloured calyx compen- 
sates for its abortive petals. The flowers, in colour, resemble those of 
