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inia. — Arbor mediocris, foliis alfernis, simplicibus, crenato-lobatis, exsti- 

 pulatis petiolatis, petiolo basi dUatato amplexicauli ; racemis terminalibus 

 densis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, floribus coccineis, speciosissimis. 



Greyia Sutherlandi, Hook. and jBam MSS. (Plates XIII. & XIV.). 



Hab. — In rocky, exposed mountain situations, near Port Natal, at 

 from 2000 to 6000 feet elevation. — Dr. Sutherland. 



A small tree, or large shrub, with light, porous wood, and a gray 

 bark. The branches are densely leafy towards the ends, the flowering 

 branches bare of leaves for some space below the raceme. The leaves 

 are borne on petioles of half their own length at least, and are subro- 

 tund, cordate at base, multi-lob ulate at the edges, glabrous, but covered 

 on both surfaces with minute glandular dots, which exude a viscid fluid ; 

 the petioles clasp the branch by their expanded base, and are destitute 

 of stipules. The racemes are densely many-flowered, 2-4 inches 

 long, with the flowers so closely set on all sides that the whole 

 appears like an oblong fascicle. The pedicels are glabrous, three- 

 quarters of an inch long, patent, each subtended by a small lanceolate 

 bract. Calyx continuous with the pedicel, five parted, of five elliptic- 

 oblong or slightly ovate, obtuse, glabrous, externally dotted sepals, per- 

 sistent. Petals alternate with the sepals, sessile, broadly linear- oblong, 

 and very blunt, of a thick, glossy substance, and bright crimson colour, 

 thrice as long as the calyx, minutely ciliolate at the edges, ^deciduous. 

 Stamens 20, in two rows, those of the outer row abortive, connate into a 

 deep fleshy cup (or nectary), whose border is crowned with the ten 

 short filaments, each of which is terminated by abroad, peltate, incurved 

 gland, representing the anther ; those of the inner row fertile, free, 

 much exserted, hypogynous, or nearly so, alternate with the barren fila- 

 ments, which they many times exceed in length; filaments filiform, taper- 

 ing upwards; anthers erect, two-celled, didymous, introrse, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. The pollen has been shed in our specimen. Ovary formed 

 of five lanceolate carpels, whose inflexed edges cohere round a very 

 narrow central cavity, but do not unite in a central point ; the ovary, 

 therefore, consists of a single loculus, but with five radiating sinuosities. 

 The ovules are numerous, and are borne on parietal placentae at the 

 ventral sutures of the carpels. The capsule is membranaceous, deeply 

 5-lobed, and almost resolved into five follicles, cohering by their ventral 

 sutures. Seeds minute, with abundant fleshy albumen, and a small 

 dicotyledonous orthotropous embryo in its base. 



