ICONES PLANTARUM. 23 



The fruit is described in Mr. McLea's label as of the ' size of a 

 marble/ and *liiglily scented/ — D. Oliver. 



Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Diagram of aestivation. 3. Expanded flower. 4. Stamen (en- 

 larged). 



Plate 1229. 



CHIEONIA (XANTHOCHIROIS') EXIGtJA, OUv 



Gentianace^, Tribe Chieonie^. 



C» exigUa, OUv, sp. nov.'^ berba annua tenuis glabra simplex v. 

 superne ramosa ; foliis inferioribus squamiformibus, superioribus 

 linearibus acutis, floribus flavis in cymis paucifloris terminalibus dis- 

 positis rarius solitariis, caljce 5-fido segnieutis lanceolatis acutis, 

 corollas lobis ovato-ellipticis obtusis tubo longioribus. • 



Hab. South extra-tropical Africa: Orange Free State and the Dia- 

 mond Fields, ilrs. Barber, 



m 



Herha 3-6 (-10) pollicaris erecta. Folia par^a remota Imearia, 

 superiora |-| poll, longa, inferiora s^pius minuta. Pedicelli erecti, 

 floris centralis ^-1 poll, longi. Flores 6-8 lin. diam. Calyx 5-nerviu3 

 tempore florifero baud carinatus. AntJiercB exsertos immutatse. Ova- 



feris: sticrma 



cailis. — D. Oliver, 



+ 



More like some of the smaller species of Sebcea than any Chironia, 

 and possibly deserving generic separation. 



Fig. 1. Bud, the caljx ill-drnwn, but showing the aestivafion of the corolla. 2. Ex- 

 panded flower. 3. Pistil and 3* transverse section of the ovary. 4. Anther. 



Plate 1230. 



MACGEEGOIIIA RACEMOSA, F MiieU. 



SXACKHOUSIACE-E. 



M. racemosa, F. Mudl, Fragm. Phyfogr. Austral, viii. 161, sj)ccie$ 



untca. 



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