NEW GENERA OF S. AFRICAN PLANTS. 19 
This genus is founded on a shrub (D. Kraussii, nob.) dis- 
covered at Port Natalby Dr. Krauss, specimens of which are 
distributed as No. 348 of his collection. Itis the first indi- 
vidual of the Order recorded as South African, and it will be 
seen that it differs remarkably from the published genera by 
having a ¢ripartite flower, and alternate leaves; but if the 
Hippocrateacee be mainly distinguished from allied groups 
by the position, number and structure of the stamens and 
ovules, our plant can hardly be referred elsewhere. It has, 
indeed, much the appearance of a Salacia, to which genus, 
till I had carefully examined the floral envelopes, I was dis- 
posed to refer it. The generic name is derived from ?vzXoos, 
double, and iw, cow, fo clothe, in allusion to ‘the duplica- 
tion of calyx, corolla and discal-margin. 
ESCALLONIACELE. 
2, CnonisrvLIs.—Calycis tubus obconicus, ovario adna- 
tus; limbus laciniis 5, erectis, distantibus, subulatis, persis- 
tentibus. Corolle petala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, 
deltoideo-subulata, trinervia, sericea, calycis laciniis longiora, 
persistentia, estivatione valvata. Stamina 5, petalis alterna ; 
filamenta brevissima ; anthere (minute) biloculares, ovate, 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes, hirsute, connectivo carnoso. 
Sty duo, subconnati, demum soluti, divergentes; stigmata 
capitata, carnosa. Ovarium inferum, biloculare; ovulis juxta 
dissepimentum utrinque plurimis. Capsula semi-infera, 
apice conica, calycis limbo petalis stylisque disjunctis coro- 
nata, bilocularis, inter stylos septicide dehiscens. Semina ob- 
longa, subincurva, raphe prominula; testa coriacea. Embryo? 
Frutex 8-10 pedalis, montanus ; foliis alternis, exsti- 
pulatis, simplicibus, elliptico-ovatis, serratis, glabris, longe 
petiolatis ; paniculis parvis, parc? ramosis, axillaribus termi- 
nalibusque ; floribus viridibus. Genus Forgesie proximum ; 
sepalis petalisque persistentibus, staminibusque diversum. 
Ch. rhamnoides, nob.—For specimens of this interesting 
plant, which seems to have escaped the notice of all previous 
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