ICONES PLANTARUM. ' 03 



Plate 1479. 



CRATEROSTIGMA NANUM, Benth, var. ? elatior. 



ScRoniULAEiACEiE, Sub-tribe Vandellie^. 



C. nanum, Benth. in Gen, Plant, ii. 954, var. ? elatior ; foHis radica- 

 libns rosulatis ovato-lanceolatis oblanccolatisvc obtusis v. obtusiusculis 

 in pctiolum latinsculum angustatis faciebus parce pilosulis glabrisve 

 ciliatis, scapo clongato (^-1 pedali) crecto pilosnlo panci- v. plurifloro 

 (3-15), bracteis crectis oblongis, pedicellis erectis florc suba^quilongis, 

 calyce hirtello. 



Hab. Transvaal at Mac Mac, C, Mtidd (flowers * rose, tinged Avitli 

 yellow ') ; Houtbosb, D)\ Eehmann, No. 5979. 



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Folia |-1^ poll, longa, tenuiter coriacca, nervis obsoletis.. Corolla 

 tube calyccm supcrante v. a3quante, Umbo ^ poll. lato. 



I may be wrong in supposing this a variety of G. nantim^ of wbich wo 

 nave only two dwarf examples collected by Drege ; but from a general 

 view of the allied tropical forms I can well believe this species to bo 

 sufficiently variable to include this tall form with pedicolled flowers.— 

 D. Oliver. 



Fig- 1. riowcr. 2. Posterior lip of corolla. 3. Stamens. 4. Piidtil, 5. Stigma. 

 Enlarged, 



Plate 1480. 



TRICHOCLADUS GRANDIFLOEUS, Oliv. 



Uamamelide.^. 



grandiflorus 



ovato- 



novelhs stellato puberulis, foliis alternia tenniter coriaceis 

 lanceolatis acuminatis glabris reticulatis petiolatJs, inflorcscentia 

 termmali v. axillari brovitcr pcdunculata, floribus capitatim congcstis 

 Di-eyiter splcatisve subsessilibus v. brevipedicellatis, calycis hmbo 

 festivatione clauso mox 3- v. 2-fido int.us glabro extus pilis ferragmeis 

 stellutis sparsis pubcscente. 



Wab. Transvaal, ' Bertr Dai can,' C. Mudd. 



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