220 LXXIIU. JASMINEA. 
sweet-scented flowers and pinnate leaves ; occurs in several parts of the 
Natal colony. The only other known species is Indian. 
4. MENODORA, H.B. K. 
Calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-10- or many-cleft, with narrow 
lobes. Corolla shortly funnel-shaped, with a terete tube, 
mostly hairy within ; limb 5-parted, imbricate in bud. Sta- 
mens 2, exserted. Style filiform; stigma subcapitate ; ovary 
2-lobed ; ovules 2-4 in each cell. Capsule didymous, carti- 
Jaginous, each carpel opening by a transverse slit.—DC. Prod. 
vill. p. 816 (including Bolivaria, p. 315); Hook. Ic. Plant. 
t. 586. 
Undershrubs, natives of South America and Mexico, as well as of the 
Northern and North-Eastern frontiers of the Cape colony—We have 2 
species: I. Africana, Hook., a much-branched, diffuse plant, with multi- 
fid leaves; and I. juncea, Harv. (n. sp.), an erect, nearly leafless, virgate 
plant, flowering at the ends of the branches. 
Orper LXXIV. SALVADORACEA:? 
1. MONETIA, L’Hér. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx shortly 4-5-cleft, valvate 
in bud. Petals 4-5, hypogynous, linear-lanceolate, longer than 
the calyx, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, alternate with the 
petals, inserted into the margin of a fleshy, hypogynous disk ; 
filaments subulate; anthers versatile, 2-celled.—Female : 
Calyx and corolla as in the male. Stamens abortive. Ovary 
free, 2-celled; ovules solitary, erect or ascending; stigma 
sessile, globose. Berry 1-2-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous, 
with a green embryo and fleshy, strongly cordate cotyledons. 
—Fl. Cap. i. p. 474. 
M. barlerioides, L’Hér., the only species, occurs in Uitenhage. It 
is a glabrous shrub, with opposite branches and twigs. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, with axillary, solitary or 2-nate spines. Flowers small and green- 
ish, in dense axillary tufts.——Its true place in the system is extremely 
doubtful. I place it here at the suggestion of Dr. Hooker. 
Orper LXXV. MYRSINEA. 
Flowers bisexual or polygamous, small. Calyx 4—-6-toothed 
or cleft, free or half-adnate to the ovary. Corolla mostly 
monopetalous, regular, 4—6-lobed or parted, rarely of 4-5 pe- 
tals; lobes mostly twisted to the left in bud. Stamens as 
many as the lobes of corolla and opposite them, fertile (some- 
times alternating with as many petaloid staminodia). Ovary 
