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Fig. 1, End of flowering branch with leaves, flowers, and buds ; 2, Base of 

 corolla tube, showing stamens; 3, Calyx, corolla removed, showing style, and 

 stigma ; all about natural size ; 4, Section of ovary, enlarged. 



PLATE 39. 



ENTADA NATALENSIS, Benth. 

 Natural Order LEGUMINOSAE. 



A slender, prickly, climbing shrub. Branches usually 5 angled, the angles 

 bearing sharp recurved prickles, glabrous, young ones tomentulose. Leaves 

 abruptly bi-pinnate, 4-8 jugate, stipulate, common petiole 2-6 inches long, swollen 

 at base, and with a dark coloured discoid or conical gland just above the swelling, 

 prickly for the whole of its length, terminating in a hair-like mucro ; pinnae 

 opposite, 12-15 jugate, leaflets opposite, oblong, often a little unequal at base, 

 glabrous, paler beneath, very shortly petiolulate, 4-5 lines long, 2-3 lines wide; 

 secondary petioles swollen at base, angular, without prickles. Inflorescence in 

 axillary and terminal spikes, 1-4 together in axils of leaves. Spikes many flowered, 

 1-2 inches long ; peduncles ^f- inch long. Calyx small, cup shaped, indistinctly 

 lobed. Corolla gamopetalous, 5 lobed for ^ the way down, lobes acute, light green, 

 1^ lines long. Stamens 10, free, much exserted, anthers dorsifixed, bearing a large 

 globose, stalked, deciduous, white gland at apex, pollen granular. Ovary stipitate, 

 pubescent ; Style long, slender ; stigma minute ; Legume compressed, thin, 

 margined, veiny, 4-6 inches long, f 1 inch broad, ultimately breaking into 10-12 

 1 -seeded indehiscent portions. Seeds attached by a long cord. 



Habitat : NATAL : Coast districts, reaching to at least 2-3000 feet above sea- 

 level. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered on Berea, January, 1S98. 



This genus includes 10 species, of which 6 are African, 3 Tropical American, 

 and one widely spread in Tropical countries ; the latter, E. scandeng, is well known 

 by its large seeds, which are often found cast -up by the ssa on our shores ; it has 

 been reported as being a native of Natal, though wo have not met with it ; it has, 

 however, been found on the East coast, and is probably widely spread in Central 

 Africa. Its pod reaches 4 feet in length, and is 3-4 inches broad ; a specimen of 

 it is in the Durban Museum; it is the " Sword bean" of the East and West Indies. 

 In the description of the genus in the Flora Capensis the petals are .said to bs free, 

 or nearly so, but we find them to be exactly as described here, and figured in the 

 illustration. The plant is known to the natives as u-Bobo, but we cannot learn 

 that they put it to any use. 



Fig. 1, Portion of branch with leaves and flowers about natural size ; 

 2, A flower ; 3, Corolla opened ; 4, A stamen with its gland ; 5, Gland ; 6, Ovary 

 a,nd style ; 7, Legume. All but 7 variously enlarged, 5 very much so. 



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PLATE 40. 



GARDENIA THUNBEBGIA, L f, 

 Natural Order RUI-.IAOE/E. 



A small, unarmed, much branched tree. Trunk 6-9 inches diameter, 6-12- 

 feet high ; bark grey, smooth. Leaves opposite, petiolate, stipulate, elliptic, or 

 broadly ovate, entire, a little undulate, acuminate at apex, gradually tapering at 



