134 DESCRIPTION OF CHRISTYA. 



Christya. Ward and Harvey. 



Calyx quinque partitus, lobis lanceolatis, basi intiis glan- 

 dula bifida auctis, peisistens. Corolla hypogyna, tubo cam- 

 panulato-infundibuliformi, calycem duplo superante ; faux 

 squamis bifidis, limbi laciniis alternis, carnosis, exsertis coro- 

 nata; /m^ws quinquepartitus, laciniis lineari-attenuatis, elon- 

 gatis, obtusis, canaliculatis, equilateris, aestivatione spiraliter 

 tortis. Stamina 5, inio coroliae tubo inserta, inclusa; ^/a- 

 menta brevissima ; anthercB sagittatae, subulatae, acutas, dorse 

 barbatae, circa stigma cobserenteSj eoque basi adnatae. Ovaria 

 2; ovulis ad suturam plurimis. Stylus lineari-clavatus, elon- 

 gatus, in discuni dilatatus; stigma capitatum, velutino-pul- 

 vinatum. Folliculi ? 



Christya speciosa. Ward and Harvey. 



Hab. Inter frutices prope " Kat-Riviere," C. B. S. — D. 

 Bartels. (fide Cel. Pappe qui specimen humanissime com- 

 municavit.) — " Winterberg," C.B.S. (sine Jiore,) Ecklon 

 and Zeyher (-fide Cel. Pappe.) 



Frutex erectus, trichotome (?) ramosus. Rami virgati, 

 teretes, apicem versus subquadranguli, minutissime pubes- 

 centes, demum glabrati. Folia opposita vel saepius quaterna, 

 obovato-lanceolata, subacuta, basi attenuata, erecto-patentia, 

 glabra, petiolata; petiolis brevibus, basi intus squamulis binis 

 carnosis instructis. Panicuke terminales, vel pseudo-later- 

 ales, dichotomae, cymosae; pedunculis pubescentibus, pedi- 

 cellis longiusculis, subclavatis, basi bracteolatis. Flores mag- 

 ni, speciosi, aiirei (?). Calyx corollaque minutissime et 

 mollissime pubescentes. 



From this description it will be seen that Christya is in 

 many respects allied to Ectadium, E. M , a plant also from 

 the Cape, though coming from a very different part of South 

 Africa, and differing in many important characters. Ecta- 

 dium like Christya, is a shrub with rod-like branches, but its 

 flowers are small, and floral characters very different. In 

 Ectadium there are no fleshy scales without the corolla; but, 

 on the contrary, a 5-crenate saucer-shaped, hypogynous disc, 



