54 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
This small cucurbit seems to be frequent at Natal. In the genus 
Lagenaria, if it really belong to it, it is remarkable for the minute size 
of its flowers. I have not as yet seen ripe fruit. 
Fig. 1, a flowering & plant; the natural size. Fig. 2, @ perianth; 3, another 
view of the same; 4, stamens ; 5, the Q perianth; 6, stigma ; all magnified. 
184. AMPHITHALEA WILLIAMSONT, Harv. (Leguminose.) 
A. Williamsoni; ramis virgatis pubescentibus, foliis ovatis v. ovato- _ 
lanceolatis calloso-mucronulatis planiusculis marginibus leviter intro- _ 
flexis supra glabris subtus adpresse-pubescentibus trinerviis, calycis se- 
ricei dentibus ovatis acutis tubo brevioribus, Harv. in Fl. Cap. 2. 
p. 23. 
Has.—Albany, 7. Williamson! Featherston’s Kloof, Grahamstown, I. Mue Owan, : 
313. (Herb. T.C.D.) - 
Descr.—A small shrub, 2-3 feet high. Branches softly pubescent, — 
rodlike, closely leafy, either simple or emitting similar lateral branch- _ 
lets, few or many. eaves ovate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 
silky beneath, the adult quite glabrous and glossy above, flattish or 
slightly concave, the margin slightly inflewed ; nerves 3, most visible on 
the lower surface. Flowers sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, 
forming more or less of a leafy spike, purple, with a dark keel, Calyz- 
teeth much shorter than the tube, ovate, acute (or deltoid). Ovary 
uniovulate. 
This neat little bush was originally described from a few fragments, 
gathered in 1838, by a private of the 72nd Regiment, whom I employed 
to collect on the frontier. N. othing further was known of it till re- 
cently, when Mr. Mac Owan discovered it in the above habitat, and fur- 
nished me with many excellent specimens, from one of which our draw- 
ing has been made. It differs from all known species of Amphithalea 
(except 4. micrantha) by the inflexed, not reflexed, edges of its leaves, an 
obvious character, by which it may be known at a glance. 
Fig. 1, flowering branch ; the natural size. Fig. 2, upper surface of leaf; 8, under 
surface of same; 4, a flower ; 5, calyx laid open; 6, vexillum ; 7, one of the ale; 8, : 
half the carina; 9, stamens, with Ovary im situ; 10, ovary; 11, the same cut in half 1 
all magnified. _ 
Ea TTS gi soe ears tae al ai : —————_ 
185. ELAZODENDRON ? LAURIFOLIUM, Harv. (Celastrinea.) 
= ? laurifolium: glabrum, foliis oppositis oblongis y. oblongo- 
ellipticis nunc basi et apice obtusis nune apice acutis, nune emarginatis 
‘supra nitentibus subtus venosis marginibus reflexis integris vy, remote et 
minute denticulatis, pedunculis axillaribus nutantibus petiolum equan- 
tibus, floribus 2-5 subsessilibus capitulatis, petalis unguiculatis erecto- 
patentibus, ungue lato-lineari, lamina ovata subacuta, ovario 2-loculari. 
