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the other variety has flowered in the Gardens, and the only differences that we 

 find are that the colour of the corolla is maroon edged with yellow instead of 

 dull greenish white, and the central lobe of the corona is a little shorter than in 

 the variety described. 



Fig. 1, Branch with leaves and flowers about natural size ; 2, Flower ; 

 3, Calyx ; 4, Lobe of corona, front and side view ; 5, Pollen masses ; 6, Stigma, 

 all variously enlarged ; 7, Follicles, about natural size. 



PLATE 32. 



MlLLETTIA CAFFBA. Meistl. 



Natural Order LEGUMINOSAE. 



A small tree 20-30 feet high, with very hard close grained wood, the heart 

 wood is almost black, the sapwood brownish yellow. Young twigs terete or 

 compressed, covered with brown silky hairs, older glabrescent. Leaves unequally 

 pinnate in 5-7 pairs with an odd one ; common petiole 5-6 inches long, swollen 

 at base, channelled on upper surface, gradually tapering to apex, silky with 

 brownish hairs; leaflets oblong, obtuse, tnucronate, mucro recurved; becoming 

 smaller below, lowest ovate, or sub-rotund, all entire, glabrous above, silky with , 

 brown hairs beneath, especially on veins ; veins and primary veinlets very 

 prominent beneath, visible above, l-2s inches long, f-1 inch wide, petioles 1-2 

 lines long, thickened and silky ; stipellae setaceous, as long, or a little longer than 

 petioles. Inflorescence a long cylindrical many flowered panicle, its branches 

 compact, several flowered. Calyx silky externally, tube campanulate, limb 

 2 lobed, upper lobe bi-fid, lower one 3 lobed, lobes 2 lines long, obtuse. Corolla 

 papilionaceous, standard erect, orbicular, 7-8 lines long and wide, claw short, 

 strongly recurved, silky externally, pale lavender ; wings oblong, clawed, shortly 

 spurred at base, a. little shorter than standard, and deeper in colour ; keel falcate, 

 concave, clawed, and with 2 spurs just above the claws, colour full mauve. 

 Stamens diadelphous, the vexillary one free to base, the remainder connate for 

 half their length, a,nd strongly curved. Anthers small, similar. Ovary silky, 

 style curved, stigma minute. Legume hard and woody, flat, compressed, shortly 

 stalked and tipped with the hardened and persistent base of the style ; margined, 

 densely clothed with dark brown velvety hairs. 



Habitat: NATAL: In Coast forests. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban. 



This is the well known um-Zimbiti of the natives, from the wood of which the 

 " Knobkerries " and walking sticks so frequently met with are made. The wood 

 is hard and heavy, but the tree does not attain to a large size, it is used for spokes, 

 etc., and according to Mr. Fourcade "has been found superior to " Lignum-vitae " 

 for bearings of light machinery." 



The bark and seods are ueed medicinally by the natives, and the seeds are 

 said to be very purgative. The leaves are sometimes covered with a black fungus 

 on their under surfaces, which is called Di-OrchMium. Woodii, K & C. It is, we 

 believe, a monotypic genus, and is remarkable for its spores being in pairs, that is, 

 two of them are borne on a short stem, or stipes. 



Fig. 1, Twig with leaves and flowers ; 2, Corolla opened out ; a, standard, b, 

 wings, c, keel ; 3, Standard, side view ; 4, Wing, side view; 5, Stamens, calyx and 

 corolla removed ; 6, Staminal tube opened out ; 7, Ovary ; 8, Calyx opened out ; 

 all about natural size ; 9, Legume reduced. 



