ICONES PLAXTARUM. 43 



ciliato corolla? tubnm (equante, limbo corollfe quiiiquefiJo lobis angnste 

 lanceolatis. 



Hab. Transvaal, Houtboscli, Dr. A, Eehmann, 



Caulis pedalis, inferne nudus. Folia semipoUicaria, glabra, costa 

 supra subtusque pilosula ; stipute 2-5-fid^, parvse. Eacemi sub- 

 pollicares ; pedicelli brevissimi, fnictiferi oapsulam sub^quantes. Calyx 

 lobo foliaceo 2-3 lin. longo. Corolla 2 lin. longa, lobi tubo paullo 



breviores.— N. E. Brown. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3 and 4. Stamens. 5. Style. 6. Fruit. 

 7. Vertical section of fruit. All enlarged. 



Plate 1454. 



CUSSONIA GERRARDI, Seem. 



Araliace^. 



J', uerrardi, Seem:^ Rev, IlederacecSy p. 74; ax^buscula glabra, foliis 

 palmatifidia basi cordafcis, lobis deltoideis acutis v. acumiuatis inse- 

 quaiifcer glanduloso-dentatis v. serratis, floribus umbellatia ximbelKs 

 peaunculatis racemosis v. raceraosim paniculatis, fructibus lateraliter 

 ^nipressis obovatis laevibus longitadinaliter leviter costatis. — Panax 

 Uerrardi, Harv. Gen. So, Afr. PL, ed. ii. p. 147. 



Hab. Natal, at Ismont, Gerrard, No. 12G1 ; /. M. Wood, (Nov. 1879). 



ijoha 3-6 poll, Innga et lata, subtus in asillis nervorum ad apicem 

 Petioh interdum barba.to-tomcntellis ; petiolus 2^5 polL longus. 



(tcenii^ pedunculati, axillares v. terminalcH, bracteis deltoideis squa- 

 . ^^^I'niibug , umbellis multifloris glabris, bracteolis niinutis ; pediccllis 

 ffu^'^^^^ coiitinuis. Calyx limbo breviter 5-dentato, dentibus late 

 aeitoideo-ovatis. . Petala ovata, leviter imbricata. Styli 2, divaricati, 



^?H^ I'^curvi, persistentes. Fr actus (vix maturatus) 4 lin. longus.- 

 ar K • ^ ^^^^ doubtful member of the genus Cussonia. The petals 

 uf ^"^^^^^'"^te in Eestivation, and the ovary and fruit much compressed 



•aterally.^D. Oliver. 



fiectifn ^f ^^^®^' 2-3. Stamens. 4. Ovary, disk, and styles. 5. Longitudinal 



OJ same. 6. Ini mature fruit. 7. Young seed. Enlaryed 



F 2 



