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- shrub with spiniferous twigs, and small, serrated leaves, found in the 
Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony, in Caffraria and Natal, and which 
had previously been referred to Hartogia and to Cassine, from both 
which genera it essentially differs. I have now the pleasure of adding 
a well-marked new species, with foliage resembling that of Viburnum 
Tinus, unarmed twigs, and copiously branched cymes. In floral cha- 
racters our plant quite accords with C. Capensis, Sond. 
Fig. 1, a branch in flower; the natural size. Fig. 2, calyx laid open; 3, corolla, 
similarly opened; 4, astamen; 5, the ovary, cut vertically, to show the ovules; mag- 
nified. : 
169. ANTIDESMA VENOSUM, E. Mey. (Antidesmee.) 
A. venosum: ramis molliter fulvo-tomentosis tandemque glabratis, 
foliis laté elliptico-oblongis abrupte breviterque acuminatis vix acutis 
basi rotundatis a tergo et in venis pagine superioris fulvo-tomentosis, 
floribus (masculis) 3-4-meris stipatis spicatis aut spicato-paniculatis, 
calyce intus maxime piloso, disco ovariique rudimento glaberrimo. Zu- 
lasne, in Ann. Se. Nat. (Bot.) Ser. 3, vol. 15, p. 232. A Natalensis, 
Harv. in Herb. 
Has.—Natal, 7. Williamson, (1838), Drege, (1839), Krauss (1840), No. 138. 
R. W. Plant (1851), No. 25. Gerrard and M‘Ken (1861), No. 296. TZ. Cooper (1862), 
No. 1230. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A large shrub or tree. Young twigs, petioles, veins of the 
leaves, and inflorescence dotted with short, fulvous hairs. Leaves on 
very short petioles, 2-3 inches long, 14-25 inches wide, the young 
ones pubescent on both sides, the older glabrate above, paler, or rufes- 
cent and penninerved beneath. The shape varies from oblong to ellip- 
tical, or ovate, the apex is either bluntly acuminate or very obtuse, and 
even rounded. Spikes terminal, or from the axils of the upper leaves, 
long, slender, foxy, manyflowered. Calyx commonly 3-parted. Stamens 
3, long, exserted glabrous. Berries dark red, one-seeded, glabrous. 
This shrub, the only species of Antidesma found as yet in South 
Africa, seems to be common in Natal, from whence I received it twenty- 
six years ago. I had named it ‘‘ Natalensis’”’ in Hb., and that name has 
inadvertently crept into our plate. 
Fig. 1, a flowering twig; the natural size. Fig. 1, a flower; 3, apex of astamen; 
4, berry ; 5, the same cut open; 6, embryo, variously magnified. 
170. UROPETALUM CILIARE, E. and Z. (Liliacee.) 
U. ciliare: foliis pluribus planiusculis striatis attenuatis flexuosis 
demum spiraliter tortis rigide ciliatis, racemo erecto plurifloro, bracteis 
reflexis acuminatis pedicello sublongioribus, perianthii lobis interioribus 
latioribus subundulatis, exterioribus vix mucronatis. 
Hazn.—Fields near the Zwart Kops R., E. and Z.! Districts of Cradock and Queens- 
town, T. Cooper, 493, 474. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
