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PLATE 45. 



CLRRODKNDRON GLABROM, E. Meyer. 

 Natural Order VERBENACEJ!. 



A small tree. Bark yellow-brown, thin. Leaves in whorls of 3, pefciolate, 

 exstipulate, ovate, or oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, and gradually tapering 

 to a channelled petinle, edge entire, revolute> undulate, glabrous, dark green, dull, 

 not shining, 2-5 inches long, 1^-2 inches wide ; petiole -1 inch long, pubescent 

 on the channelled upper portion. Inflorescence terminal, in many flowered cymes. 

 Calyx gamosepalous, tube campanulate, limb 5 cleft, lobes lanceolate, spreading. 

 Corolla sa-^er shaped, white, tube cylindrical, 4 lines long, three times longer than 

 calyx, lobes oblong, about half as long as tube. Stamens 4, much ngferted, 

 filaments pink, anthers brown, 2 celled, dorsally affixed. Ovary normally 4 celled, 

 cells 1 ovuled ; style 'much exserted, stigma 2 fid, lobes acute. Fruit a drupe,' 

 seated in the persistent calyx, 1 or more seeded, sub-globose, 4 lines in diameter, 

 yellow when ripe. 



Habitat .- NATAL : From coast to Drakensberg. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, January 1898. 



A small tree, the wood of which is little if at all used. It is a conspicuous 

 object when in flower, but the flowers, which are borne in great profusion, are 

 rather unpleasantly scented. It is known to the natives as um-Quaquane, or 

 um-Quoqongo, and some part of the tree is used as a purgative for calves. Mr. 

 Fourcade in his report on Natal Forests gives Dr. Sonder as the author of the 

 species, having no doubt followed Harvey in the Genera of South African plants ; 

 the Index Kewensis, however, attributes it to E. Meyer, and this is no doubt 

 correct. 



Fig. 1, Twig with flower, natural size ; 2, Flower ; 3, Flower, opened ; 4, 

 Ovary and style ; 5, Young fruit ; 6, Section of ovary ; all enlarged. 



PLATE 46. 



VANGUEKIA LASIANTHA, Sond. 

 Natural Order 



A small shrub. Twigs terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, stipulate, 

 oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse at both ends, edge entire, a little recurved, veins 

 Conspicuous, dark green, glabrous and glossy above, paler and dull beneath, wiih 

 a few hairs on midrib, 2^-4 inches long, 1 -If inches wide, petiole - inch long; 

 pubescent; stipules cuspidate from a broad base, 2-3 lines long, deciduous. 

 Inflorescence axillary, cymose, the branches usually divaricate, 6-13 flowered, 

 central flower usually solitary, lateral branches generally 3 flowered. Calyx, tubf 

 campanulate, short, lobes 5, ob-lanceolate, or spathulate, 3 times longer than the 

 tube,, at length reflexed, yellow-green, pubescent; persistent on young fruit, but 

 falling away before fruit matures. Corolla, 5 lobed, tube barrel shaped, lobes 

 lanceolate trom a broad base, strongly reflexed, twice as long as tube, with a 

 circle of reflexed white hairs half way down, (about half as long as anthers); 

 anthers 2 celled, acute. Style slender. Stigma cylindrical, intrnse at base, 

 obscurely 5 lobeil at apex. Ovary 4-5 celled, cells 1 seeded. Fruit a berry, 

 normally 5 seeded, but sometimes fewer by abortion, crowned with a conspicuous 

 areole at apox. 



