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PLATE 25. 



GARDENIA CITRIODORA, Hooker. 

 Natural Order RUBIACKAE. 



An unarmed glabrous shrub several feet high, branches terete, younger ones 

 green, compressed, swollen at nodes, glabrous ; Leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong, 

 or oblong lanceolate, entire, acute, glabrous, dark green above, lighter beneath, 

 2-6 inches long, 1-lf inches broad, petiole 6-8 lines long, channelled above ; 

 Stipules subulate from a broad base, 4-6 lines long; Inflorescence in axillary 

 corymbs which are much shorter than the leaves. Calyx tubular, 5 fid, teeth 

 acute, including pedicels and teeth 6 lines long, bracts 2 to 3, subulate ; Corolla 

 salver shaped, Pinch long, tube 2-3 times longer than calyx; widening below 

 throat ; lobes 5, ovace, obtuse, externally glabrous, with a few hairs in tube,, 

 spreading to | inch diamater, white, lobes externally tinged with pink ; Stamens 

 5, subsessile on expanded portion of tube, anthers linear just reaching sinuses 

 of limb. Style exserted, gradually thickened upwards, striate, Stigma 2 lobed, 

 lobes short, stigmato.se and yellow'within. Ovary 1 celled but appearing 2 celled 

 by the placentas meeting in the centre, many ovuled. Fruit, a berry as large as 

 a srnaii cherry. 



Habitat: NATAL : noar Durban, and down the coast as least as far as TJmzim- 

 kulu, but rare or absent North of TJmgeni. 



Drawn and described from a plant which flowered in the Botanic Gardens, 

 August, 1897. 



This plant is known to many colonists as "Wild Coffee," and the berries have 

 for many years been used as a substitute for coffee, chiefly by natives, and small 

 farmers on the South Coast. The shrub is a handsome one, aj d the white flowers 

 are very fragrant. 



Fig. 1, Flowering branch natural size; 2, Flower with calyx and bracts; 3, 

 Corolla opened, showing stamens in situ; 4. Stigma; 5, Lorgitudinal section of 

 ovary ; 6, Cross section of ovary ; 7, Stamens, all variously ei a ged. 



PLATE 26. 



OXYANEHUS NATALENSIS, Sond. 



Natural Order, KUKIACB*. 



A shrub or sn.all tree with wnite flowers. Twigs ending abruptly at the 

 uppermost pair of leaves a'.id terminating in a pair of stipules which are firmly 

 adherent to each other by their inner faces ; compressed, green, glabrous. Leaves 

 oiiposite, petiolate, stipulate, elliptic oblong, shortly acuminate, mucronate, entire, 

 g abrous, veins conspicuous, especially so beneath ; 6-8 inches long, 2^-4 inchep 

 wide; petiole 3-6 lines long, channelled above; stipules ovate-acummate, twice as 

 long as the petiole. Inflorescence in axillary corymbose racemes, which are some- 

 times paniculate. Calyx gamosepalous, campanulate, tube 2-3 lines long, limb 5 

 toothed, teeth linear-acuminate, shorter than tube. Corolla gamopetalous, white, 

 tube slender, 2-3 inches long, pilose internally, lobes 5, lanceolate, reflexed, 7-8 

 lines long. Stamens 5, on corolla at throat, filaments short, anthers linear, 

 exserted." Ovary inferior, 2 celled, msuny seeded. Style filiform, stigma clavate, 

 exserted. Fruit an ovate many seeded berry, i.reolate at apex, 1 4 inches long, 



inch wide. 



