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Has.—Tongaat Natal, Mrs. Saunders! Umeomas, M‘ 
Tugela, Gerrard! (Herb. T. C. D.) ee 
Descr.—A large, partly scandent shrub or small . 
all parts. Leaves opposite, impari-pinnate, with 2 me gla hes ae 
Common petiole more or less evidently wing-margined. Leaflets 1 es 
inches long, nearly equal sided at base, 3_] inch wide, the eget Jer 
larger, all of subcoriaceous texture, netted veined beneath, obtuse or 
bluntly acuminate. Cyme trichotomous, long-peduncled, many flowered ; 
bracts 2-3 lines long, deciduous. Pedicels equalling the bracts, spread- 
ing. Calyx 14 line long, cupshaped, either quite entire or denticulate, 
at length spreading. Corolla tube 4 times longer than the calyx; lobes 
commonly 6, obtuse, white, with velvety, dark purple patches at base, 
forming a star in the centre of the flower. Stamens exserted. Capsule 
very thick and woody, obovate, loculicidal, splitting into two boat- 
shaped valves, and tearing the parallel septum into two halves. Seeds 
with a long, cultrate or oblong wing. 
This beautiful shrub appears to have been first found, some four or 
five years ago, by Mrs. Saunders, of Natal, a lady to whom I am in- 
debted for some interesting botanical information, and to whom I have 
great pleasure in dedicating the species. My best specimens, here 
figured, I owe however, to my often mentioned friend, Mr. Gerrard, 
who gathered them on the Tugela. Mrs. Saunders describes the flowers 
as fragrant, ‘ each blossom embellished with a dark, velvety ring 
round the throat of the corolla .” and as they are borne plentifully at the 
ends of the branches, the general aspect must be very ornamental. Mrs. 
Saunders, though she could not satisfy herself to what Order this shrub 
belongs, rightly determined it to be * allied to the olives.” Its flowers 
and foliage are those of a Jasmine; its fruit and winged seeds not un- 
like those of Syringa. The only other known species of Schrebera isa 
native of India. 
Fig. 1, apex of a flowering branch ; 
4, a flower; 5, one of the corolla-lobes ; 
2, acapsule; 3, seeds; the natural size. Fig. 
6, ovary, style, and stigma ; variously mag- 
nified. 
164, SIRYCHNOS ATHERSTONEL, Harv. (Loganiacea.) 
S. Atherstonei: arborea, glaberrima, inermis, ramulis compressi- 
usculis pallidis, foliis ovatis V- ovato- blongis subcoriaceis margine 
reflexis supra nitidis obtuse acuminatis bast subacutis breve petiolatis, 
eymulis racemulosis paucifloris V- trifloris folio brevioribus, floribus pe- 
joribus intus barbatis demum revolutis, 
dicellatis, corolla lobis tubo long 
-- subulatis. Atherstoned decussata, Pappe! 
staminibus exsertis, filamentis su é 
Sylv. Cap. Ed. 2, P- 29. Strychnos Baculum, Harv. Herb. T. C.D., 
MSS. 
in Ui ; Oli and elsewhere in the 
Has.—Thickets and forests In Uitenhage 5 Olifants Hoek, 
Eastern Province, Pappe- On the Kowie; ‘Dr. Atherstone! Near D’Urban, Natal, 
Gerrard and M‘Ken, 847. (Herb. T. c. D. : 
Descr.—aA tree 20-25 feet high, 1-14 feet diameter. Branches and 
