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usually truncate at base, with salient angles. Other charac- 
ters as in Xysmalobium. 
Erect herbs, with the habit of Xysmalobium, but a different corona. 
There are several species, having the largest flowers of any of the allied 
genera. By Decaisne (DC. Prod. viii. p. 562) these plants are included in 
Gomphocarpus, but the structure of the corona is very different, as is also 
the form of corolla. 
17. GOMPHOCARPUS, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, mostly reflexed. 
Corona 5-parted, erect or suberect, as long as the gynostege 
or much longer, complicate-cucullate, laterally compressed, the 
margins strongly inflexed, the inflexion greatest above, where 
the angles are often salient, directed toward the stiema ; apex 
either truncate or variously twisted. Other characters as in 
AXysmalobium.— DC. Prod. vii. p.556 ; Thes. Cap.t.67, 97, 192-5 
Shrubs undershrubs or erect herbs, with opposite leaves. Peduncles ter- 
minal and interpetiolar, umbellately many-flowered. Flowers mediocre, 
smaller than in Pachy TEES —Many species, dispersed; several still un- 
described. 
18. FANNINIA, Harv. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted; segments flat, 
spreading, bearded at apex. Corona 5 -leaved ; folioles hori- 
zontally spreading, longer than the eynostege, flat, oblong, 
obtuse, with a medial nerve, furnished at base on the inside 
with two collateral, tongue-like processes. Anthers mem- 
brane-tipped. Pollinia compressed, obovate, pendulous. Stigma 
depressed-pentagonal.. Follicles ? 
F. caloglossa, H., the only species, is a small, pubescent herb, with op- 
posite, oblong leaves. Peduncles interpetiolar, umbelled. Flowers 3-3 
inch across, handsome.—Discovered at the Dargle Farm, Natal, by Mr. 
George Fannin (n. 49), to whose honour this genus is dedicated. 
19. LAGARINTHUS, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, rotate, the lobes erect 
or spreading. Corona 5-parted ; folioles free, dilated at base, 
furnished with a tongue-shaped process on the inner side. 
Anthers tipped with a broadish membrane. Pollinia com- 
pressed, taper-pointed, suspended. Stigma depressed, ob- 
scurely 5-angled. Follicles smooth, fusiform.— DC. Prod. viii. 
p. 555. 
Krect, slender herbs, with narrow leaves. Flowers small, green or 
brownish, in extra-axillary peduncles, umbellate.—4 or 5 species, dispersed. 
20. ASPIDOGLOSSUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, rotate. Corona 5-parted 
