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which in other respects agrees with his description. I have not seen any 
authentic specimen of Drege’s plant. 
Fig. 1, Schizoglossum atropurpureum, the natural size. Fig, 2, a flower; 3, scales of 
the corona-staminea, different views; 4, stamens and stigma ; 5, a pair of pollen masses. 
The latter figures variously magnified. 
XLII. TENARIS RUBELLA, E. Mey. (Asclepiadee.) 
T. rubella: /. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. 198. Endl. Gen. No. 3504. 
Dne. in DC. Prod. 8, p. 606. 
Has.—In grassy places. Adow and Glenfilling, 800-1500 feet. Drege! Near the 
Zwartkops River, Dr. Puppe ! Albany, Dr. Alexander Prior ; Howison’s Poort, H. Hut- 
ton, Esq. (Herb. T. C. D., &.) 
Descr.—Loot fleshy, placenteeform, an inch or more in diameter. 
Stems one or several from the same root, 1-2 feet high, very slender, 
erect, simple, glabrous. Leaves opposite, from 4 inch to 3-4 inches 
apart, erect, very narrow-linear, 2-3 inches long, 4-1 line wide, sessile, 
slightly narrowed at base, subacute, with reflexed margins. /Jowers 
pale purplish red, in a terminal-elongating, pseudo-raceme: pedicels 
1-2 flowered, longer or shorter, naked or bracteolate in the middle. 
Sepals lanceolate, glabrous. Corolla rotato-stellate, with 5 erect or 
spreading, linear-spathulate, truncate, mucronulate segments, papillose 
below the middle. Corona-staminea of 5 short, cucullate, sharply 
emarginate squame, alternating with the stamens, and 5internal subulate 
teeth opposite the stamens ; the squamz furnished on the inner face, at 
base, with two minute tooth-like processes. Pollinia erect, oval. Stigma 
flat, 5-angled. 
A graceful little plant, apparently not uncommon on the Eastern 
frontier. 
Fig. 1, Tenaris rubella, the natural size, Fig. 2, 3, lobes of the corolla; 3, the corona 
surrounding the stamens and pistil; 4, part of the corona laid open, and viewed from 
within; 5, pollen masses. Variously magnified. 
XLIV. MIMUSOPS OBOVATA, Sond. (Sapotacee.) 
M. obovata: ‘ramis ramulisque teretibus glabris, foliis petiolatis 
obovatis obtusis v. obtuse-acuminatis utrinque glaberrimis coriaceis 
margine planis v. subrevolutis, axillis 1-2 floris, pedicellis ferrugineis 
erectis petiolo 4-5—plo longioribus, lobis calycinis lanceolatis acuminatis 
exterioribus dorso ferrugineo-puberulis intus albidis, interioribus suban- 
gustioribus albido-velutinis, corolla longitudine calycis, drupa ovata v. 
subglobosa apiculata, semine elliptico-oblongo,’—Sond. in Linn., vol. 
xxii. p. 75. Imbricaria obovata, Nees, MSS. 
Has.—Woods near Olifant’s Hoek, Uitenhage, Ecklon & Zeyher. Port Natal, Guein- 
zius, 583 and 101; T. Williamson, J. Sanderson, &c. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A shrub with grayish bark. caves scattered, variable in 
size, sometimes 2—3 inches long, sometimes 1-14 inch, on petioles from 
