[Cranzia xxx. rutace^. 115 



3. CRANZIA Schreb. Gen. i. p. 143 (March 1789); non Gmel. 

 (1791). ToddaUa Jiiss. (July 1789); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL i. p. 300. 



1. C. angolensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A small or moderate -sized tree ; trunk sometimes attaining 

 1 to 1§ ft. in diam., soon dividing into spreading branches; 

 branchlets terete or somewhat angular, glabrate or puberulous. 

 Leaves exstipulate, alternate, trifoliate, 3 to 12 in. long; petiole 

 I to 3 in. long, more or less puberulous with short hairs ; lateral 

 petiolules opposite, ^V to ^ in. long, puberulous ; terminal petiolule 

 ^ to I in. long, somewhat puberulous ; leaflets oval or elliptical, 

 subacuminate or sometimes obtuse at the apex, more or less nar- 

 rowed or wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous 

 except the puberulous midrib, somewhat glaucous or obscurely 

 green, glossy and inconspicuously veined above, delicately net- 

 veined beneath, 1| to 7 in. long, | to 2| in. broad. Inflorescence 

 terminal or in the upper axils, pyramidal, 5 to 6 in. long, clothed 

 with very short hairs mixed with rather longer ones ; branches 

 alternate ; ultimate pedicels about equalling the flowers in length. 

 Flowers white, sweet-scented, rather fleshy, about g to |- in. long ; 

 calyx small, not accrescent, green, with 4 or occasionally 5 shortly 

 deltoid and abruptly acute segments, appressed to the petals in 

 the bud but afterwards spreading; petals 4 (or rarely 5), ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, white, rather fleshy, resinous-punctate, valvate 

 in fesbivation, recurved-spreading in full flower, hypogynous, in- 

 serted together with the stamens at the external base of the 

 gynophore, alternate with the calyx-segments, ^ in. long; stamens 4 

 (or rarely 5 or 6), alternating with the petals, exserted, glabrous, 

 with filaments tapering from a flattened base, and cordiform 

 yellow-white 2-celled (cells diverging) introrse longitudinally de- 

 hiscing anthers attached at the middle to the apex of the fila- 

 ment; gynophore short, circular, glandular, surrounded at the 

 basal margin with rather rigid persistent hairs ; ovary didymous 

 (or very rarely tridymous or tricoccous, as in Euphorbiacese), 

 seated on the gynophore, rather compressed ; style thick, very 

 short (or styles 2, nearly distinct at the base and combined at the 

 apex) ; stigma peltate, with 2 spreading rounded or oblong obtuse 

 thick lobes ; ovary after flowering 2-celled, cells 1 -ovuled ; ovule 

 pendulous. Fruit obliquely ellipsoidal, glabrous, 3 to ^ in. long, 

 somewhat fleshy, dotted, 2-celled, 1- (or 2-) seeded. Seed pendulous, 

 solitary, obliquely ellipsoidal, similar in form to the containing 

 fruit-cell, exalbuminous ; embryo with unequal cotyledons. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — At the borders of primitive forests, in Sobato do 

 Bumba, along the banks of the rivulet Quiapoza ; very scarce ; f r. April 

 1854, fl. Nov. 1855. No. 4552. Fl. 11 Dec 1854 ; the leaflets bore 

 a very glossy species of lichen. No. 4553. 



4. GLYCOSMIS Correa de Serra ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. i. 303. 

 1. G. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A small bushy tree, with the habit of a Bay-laurel {Laurus 



