liubus] ILV. ROSACE-fi. 323 



linear-subulate, pubescent, | to | in. long, persistent ; leaves mostly 

 trifoliolate, rarely and exceptionally quinquefoliolate, pinnate or the 

 upper ones unifoliolate, 3| to 5 in. long ; petiole (below the leaflets) 

 ranging up to 1 in. long or rather more, with whitish-grey felt and 

 usually with small prickles; lateral petiolules very short, 2V to j^^ in. ; 

 terminal petiolule ranging up to | in. long, with felt and some- 

 times prickly ; terminal leaflet ovate or sub-oval, rather shortly 

 acute or subacuminate at the apex, nearly rounded or subcordate 

 at the base, bidentate or irregularly toothed, deep green and sub- 

 glabrate on the upper surface, with whitish-grey felt beneath, 

 flat, rather thickly membranous, 2^ to 3 in. long by 1| to 3 in. 

 broad, teeth broadly ovate, apiculate; lateral leaflets rather 

 unequal-sided, 1^ to 2^ in. long by | to 1| in. broad; panicles 

 pyramidal-oblong, terminal, prickly, 3 to 6 in. long, somewhat 

 leafy in the lower part, bracteate above, clothed with whitish-grey 

 felt ; bracts sub-linear or broader in the middle, ranging up to 

 I in. long ; pedicels ranging up to | in. long, often prickly ; flowers 

 numerous, hemispherical, | in. diam. ; calyx pubescent, woolly and 

 somewhat prickly outside, clothed within with short whitish felt, 

 lobes oval, i in. long, glandular outside, tipped with a rather long 

 dark thinly pubescent mucro ; petals broadly obovate, rounded at 

 the apex, sub-unguiculate at the base, i in. long, veiny, of a deep- 

 rose colour, upper margin minutely denticulate ; filaments unequal, 

 slightly tapering upwards, falling short of the head of pistils ; 

 styles somewhat hairy, longer than the rest of the ovary ; head of 

 fruiting carpels globose, | in. diam. ; fruit black-purple or black- 

 reddish, edible but rather dry ; drupels glabrous, scrobiculate when 

 dry ; fruiting calyx applied to the base of the fruit. 



HuiLLA. — Not uncommon in bushy places along the LopoUo river 

 and in Serra de Oiahoia near Humpata, at an elevation of from 4000 

 to 6000 ft. ; frequently in company with Cliff ortia linearifolia Eckl. & 

 Zeyh. ; fl. Oct., fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859 and April 1860. No. 1281. 



6. CLIFFORTIA L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. i. p. 624. 



1 C. linearifolia Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. PI. Afr. Austr. p. 270, 

 n. 1749 (1836); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 379. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high, with the habit of Erica arborea L., 

 branched from the base ; branches inconspicuously and branchlets 

 shortly whitish-brown-tomentose ; leaves in alternate fascicles, coria- 

 ceous, persistent, digitately 3-1-foliolate, stipulate, shortly petiolate ; 

 leaflets linear-needleshaped, rather obtusely pointed, abruptly and 

 minutely apiculate, convex on the upper surface, 1 -furrowed beneath, 

 pale-green, ^ to ^ in. long ; stipules combined with the petiole into an 

 ochrea, extended on both sides of the petiole in an auriculate manner ; 

 flowers monajcious or polygamous. Male flowers axillary, solitary, 

 small, greenish, shortly pedicelled, bracteolate ; calyx deeply 4-partite, 

 herbaceous-green, at length quite patent, caducous, with elliptical 

 auriculate concave segments, margins imbricate in the ovoid bud ; 

 petals ; stamens 4, exserted, equal, inserted at the base of the calyx- 

 segments ; filaments filiform, rather flexuous at the base, flaccid, bright 

 red-purple, longer than the calyx ; anthers 2-celled, basifixed, large, 

 purple-black, widely and laterally dehiscing; ovary rudimentary^ 



