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narrowly oblong, acute at apex, tapering to base, margin undulate, distantly and 

 obscurely indented, glabrous, 3-7 inches long, 1-2 inches wide; petiole 1-2 inches 

 long, pulverulent, channelled in upper portion. Inflorescence paniculate, the 

 panicles divaricately much branched. Calyx tubular, 4 fid, teeth erect, acute or 

 obtuse, li lines long, f line wide. Corolla gamopetalous, tube cylindrical, 1 line 

 long, f line wide, limb 4 lobed, lobes oblong, acute, half as long as tube, reflexed, 

 slitting transversely just above the ovary, and soon falling off, the tube included 

 within the calyx, lobes only exserted ; with a tuft of white hairs just below insertion 

 of stamens. Stamens 4, on throat of corolla, alternate with its lobes, filaments 

 longer than corolla, a little swollen at base, and with a tuft of white hairs above 

 the point of junction ; anthers ovate, 2 celled, at length confluent. Ovary superior, 

 2 celled, many seeded; style shorter than stamens, simple, obtuse. Capsule 

 enclosed within the persistent calyx, laterally compressed, 2 lobed, 2 valved at 

 apex. Seeds minute. 



Habitat: NATAL: Coast to midlands. Wood No. 980. 



Drawn and described from a specimen in the Natal Botanic Gardens, the 

 young tree having been brought from Noodsberg. 



This is a handsome tree, the young twigs, petioles, and midribs of the young 

 foliage being of a purplish tint ; the leaves are always verticillate, but in the older 

 specimens this is not so perceptible. 



Mr. Fourcade says of it, " Wood hard, heavy, close grained and compact 

 light yellow, tinged with pink ; used for felloes, and schamels of 

 wagons." 



The genus Nuxia contains about 10 described species, natives of Tropical and 

 South Africa, and the Mascarene Islands, 3 at least of which are found in Natal, 

 and there are probably one or two species in the Colony which are not yet 

 described. The native name is unknown to us, and the tree flowers in July and 

 August. 



Fig. 1 , Branch with leaves and flowers ; 2, Flower ; 3, Plan of Flower ; 4, 

 Corolla opened ; 5, Calyx, corolla removed ; 6, Section of calyx showing ovary 

 and style ; 7. Corolla lobe and stamen ; 8, Stamen, side view ; 9, Section of ovary; 

 10, Fruit; 11, Anther, side view; 12, Anther, front view; all enlarged. 



PLATE 60. 



BUDDLEIA PULCHEIJA, N. E. Brown. 

 Natural Order LOGANIACEJE. 



A rambling divaricately branching shrub. Branches opposite, terete, light 

 brown, glabrous, young ones green, puberulent, young shoots densely white tomen- 

 tose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, varying in shape from lanceolate or ovato- 

 lanceolate to hastate, or with two rounded lobes on each side, occasionally with 

 three lobes on one or both sides, glabrous above, very finely pubescent beneath, 

 the young ones densely white tomentose beneath, green and stellate pubescent 

 above ; obtuse or sub-acute at apex, tapering at base to a channelled petiole ; 

 mature leaves reaching to 3-4 inches long, including petiole; lf-2 inches wide. 

 Inflorescence in axillary and terminal loosely flowered panicles, the primary 

 divisions of which are opposite, cymose and divaricately branching. In the young 

 state the whole inflorescence is white flocculosely stellate pubescent, the calyx and 



