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4 to 3 inch long, spreading, obovate, entire, very obtuse or subacute, flat, 
glossy above, with immersed veins and prominent midrib. Pedicels two 
or more, from the axils of the upper leaves, or in a spurious raceme on 
the naked extremity of the branches, rubescent, appressedly silky, as is 
also the calyx. JVowers = inch in diameter, the silky calyx-lobes 
equalling the corolla. Corolla glabrous, its lobes of both series subulate, 
acute. Sterile stamens densely hispidulous, with a long glabrous eus- 
pidate point. -Anthers acuminate, longer than the filaments. Drupe 
? inch long, ovate, acuminate, smooth, pale. 
Mr. Sanderson sends two varieties, one with leaves twice the size of 
the other, but not otherwise different. This species is known from 
I. caffra by its thinner, flatter, and perfectly glabrous and glossy leaves, 
neither tomentulous beneath, nor with revolute borders. 
Fig. 1, Mimusops obovata, and 2, a drupe; both the natural size. Fig. 3, calyx ; 
4, some lobes of the doubled corolla, laid open; 5, a stamen flanked by two barren sta- 
mens (staminodia); 6, ovary and style; 7, cross section of ovary. The latter figures 
variously enlarged. 
XLV. ALBERTA MAGNA, E. Mey. (Rubiacee.) 
A. magna: LE. Mey! in Hb. Drege-—Endl. Gen. No. 3327. 
Har.—On hills between Omsamcaba aud Omsamcubo, 1000-2000 feet. Drege! 
Feb. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A tree (?) or large shrub. Young branches glabrous, with 
reddish-brown bark. Leaves oblong-elliptical, acute at base, and shortly 
petiolate, subobtuse, 4-5 inches long, 14—2 inches wide, glabrous, flat, 
and smooth above, finely feather-veined beneath, with recurved margins. 
Stipules horny, brown, cup-like, unidentate at each side. FVowers in a 
terminal panicle, with cymoid branches. Pedicels tomentulose, brac- 
teate at base. Calyx tomentose, unequally 5-lobed, 2 lobes oblong, 
very obtuse, 8 sharply triangular, shorter. Coro//a tubular, incurved, 
4-5 times longer than the calyx, pubescent, angular, with a very short, 
erect, 5-parted limb ; segments obliquely ovate, twisted, imbricate, acute. 
Stamens included; anthers sessile, linear, apiculate. Style filiform ; 
ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary. wit dry, oblong, 10-ribbed and fur- 
rowed, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb, whose two obtuse lobes 
become dilated, leafy, veiny, and membranous. 
Only known to me by the specimens distributed by Drege. Its most 
striking character lies in the unequally parted calyx-limb, two of whose 
lobes lengthen, as the fruit ripens, into leat-like expansions; the other 
lobes remaining unchanged. 
Fig. 1, Alberta magna, the natural size. Fig. 2, calyx and style; 3, limb of the 
calyx, laid open; 4, apex of the corolla, slit open and flattened, showing the insertion 
of the anthers; 5, the fruit, with two wing-like foliations; 6, cross section of the ovary. 
These figures more or less enlarged. 
