44 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM, 
glandulosis, stipulis minimis dentiformibus, racemis paucifloris cirrhi- 
feris, cirrho simplici; marium calyce infundibuliformi petalisque lanceo- 
latis ciliatis, feminarum calyce turbinato petalisque subulatis integer- 
rimis. 
Has.—Mooa and Tugela Rivers, W. T. Gerrard, 1199. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.— A strong-growing climber, with branches 8 feet long 
or more;” the stem angle-striate, flexuous. Leaves petiolate; the pe- 
tiole 4-1 inch long, with a pair of small, tooth-like, deciduous stipules at 
base, lamina 14_2 inches long, varying from hastate to cordate, leathery, 
thickish, rigid when dry, pale glaucous green. Pedune., in both sexes, 
uncial, bearing 2-3 sessile flowers, and prolonged into a simple tendril. 
Mate: calyx funnel-shaped, 2 inch long, 2 lines wide at top, shortly 
5-lobed, the lobes ovate with inflexed edges, 3 of them ciliate. Petals 
about the middle of the calyx tube, lanceolate, ciliate. A circle of 
tufted hairs outside the stamens near the base of the tube, and behind 
the stamens 5 pits, in each of which is imbedded a linear gland! Sta- 
mens 5. Frmate: Calyx obconical, 83-4 lines long, three of its lobes 
(as in the male) toothed. Petals narrow, subulate, quite entire. A 
ring of hairs and five abortive stamens. Ovary shortly pedicelled, one- 
celled, with 3 placenta; stigmata 3, fimbriate. Fruit as large as an 
egg, pulpy. ; 
A well-marked species, very different from any known South African 
Modeeca, remarkable for its foliage, for the unequally ciliate calycine 
tecth, and for the dissimilar petals of male and female flowers. The 
fruit is said to be edible, and to resemble that of the common Grana- 
dilla. 
Fig. 1, flowering-branch of the male; natural size. Fig 2, a flower; 3, the same laid 
open; 4, a petal; 5, astamen; magnified. Fig. 6, branch of the female; the natural 
size. Fig. 7, flower laid open ; 8, petal; 9, pistil; 10, cross section of ovary; mag- 
nified. 
168. CASSINOPSIS TINIFOLIA, Harv. (A quifoliacea.) 
C. tinifolia: inermis; foliis oblongo-ovatis obtuse acuminatis pen- 
ninerviis integerrimis, cymis longé pedunculatis dichotomis multifloris. 
Has.—Natal and Zululand, Gerrard and M‘Ken, 1458, 1509. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.—A large shrub, or low tree, glabrous in all parts except on 
the young shoots, half-grown leaves, and flowers. Twigs somewhat 
four-angled. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate-oblong or ellip- 
tical, bluntly acuminate, 2-24 inches long, 14 inch wide, dark green 
and glossy above, paler and penninerved beneath, with slightly revolute, 
quite entire margins. Pedune. axillary, filiform, 14 inch long, bearing 
a much-branched, forking cyme, often 2 inches across. Flowers minute. 
Calyx puberulous. Corolla ‘ full white,” small, with 5 blunt lobes. 
Ovary one-celled, with 2 superposed ovules and a simple style. 
Dr. Sonder (F7. Cap. i., p. 473) founded the genus Cassinopsis on a 
