26 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Descr.—Root thick and woody. Stems 4-6 inches high, erect, 
simple, or slightly branched. Every part of the plant is thickly clothed 
with loose coarse pubescence. Leaves 1-1} inches long, 4—5 lines wide, 
very hairy. Peduncles 4-7 lines long, curved. Flowers small, and pro- 
bably white. Ca/ya-tube not one fourth as long as the lobes. Fila- 
ments flat, subulate. Ovary hirsute. Styles longer than the stamens; 
stigmas expanded, channelled, fimbriate. 
An interesting, though not a conspicuons, plant; one of the very few. 
species of the order, and the only one of the genus, found in Africa. It 
was accidentally omitted from its proper place in vol. ii. of FV. Cap., but 
will be found in the Appendix, as above quoted. 
Fig. 1, a plant; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower laid open; 3, a petal; 4, a sta- 
men; 5, ovary and trifid style; 6, one of the style branches; all magnified. 
141. ONCOBA KRAUSSIANA, Pl. (Bizacee.) 
O. Kraussiana : inermis, foliis elliptico-oblongis obtusis vel vix acu- 
tis puberulis demum glabratis integerrimis, pedunculis terminalibus 
axillaribusve, petalis 9-12 obovatis basi attenuatis hispidulis, antheris 
linearibus obtusis vy. brevissime mucronulatis,—arv. § Sond. Fl. Cap.1, 
p-66. Xylotheca Kraussiana, Hochst. 
. Fas ee Krauss, 352. Plant, 45. Sanderson, 34. Gerr. & M‘K., 693. (Herb. 
.&. D: 
Descr.—A much branched shrub or small tree, 10-15 ft. high. Young 
twigs pubescent, older with a rough, ashen bark. Leaves 2-24 inches 
long, 1-1} broad, midribbed, penninerved, and netted veined; paler 
below, quite entire. Peduncles, 2-3 inches long. Flowers large and 
handsome, with many petals. Petals broad, obovate, much attenuated 
at base, sprinkled with curled, short hairs. Anthers linear, nearly as 
long as the filaments, obtuse or subacute. Ovary usually hairy; in 
Mr. Sanderson’s specimen glabrous. 
A handsome flowering shrub, not uncommon near D’ Urban, Natal. 
Whether the var. with glabrous ovary be permanently distinct remains 
to beseen. I can detect no other character by which to distinguish the 
specimen seen. 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch ; natural size. Fig. 2, a petal; 3, stamen; 4, ovary and 
style; enlarged. 
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142. ONCOBA SPINOSA, Forsk. (Bixacea.) 
_ ©. spinosa: spinis axillaribus armata, glabra ; foliis brevi-petiola- 
tis ovato-acuminatis membranaceis reticulatis denticulatis, pedunculis 
terminalibus unifloris, petalis 5-12 obovatis basi latiusculis minute den- 
ticulatis glabris, antheris oblongis brevibus mucronatis.—Harv. in Sond. 
& Harv. Fl. Cap. vol. ii., p. 584, Suppl. O. monacantha, Steud. 
Haz.—Near Port Natal, W. 7. Gerrard. Shire River, Dr. Kirk. Also in North 
and West Africa, within the Tropics. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
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