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pedicels always so. Calyx tubular, cylindrical, 4 toothed at apex, teeth obtuse, the 

 -whole calyx with pedicel 2 lines long ; bracts linear-subulate, caducous, longer 

 than pedicels; pedicels very short. Corolla gamopetalous, the tube cylindrical, 

 straight, very slender, exserted, 3-4 lines long, reddish, lobes 4, oblong obtuse, 

 spreading, each 1 line long, dull white, throat orange red. Stamens 4, sessile on 

 tube one third down from throat, alternate with lobes ; anthers small, 2 celled ; 

 Style a little longer than calyx, obtuse. Ovary superior, seated on a cup-like disk, 

 2 celled, many seeded. 



Habitat : NATAL : Edge of wood near York at 3-4,000 feet altitude. 



Drawn and described from a plant brought by Mr. Wood from near York in 

 1892 or 1893. 



This plant was first described by Mr. N. B. Brown in the Kew Bulletin for 

 1894, p. 389, and he says of it " A very distinct species unlike any other in the 

 genus, most of the leaves are hastate, some have two lobes on each side, and a few 

 are either rhomboidal or lanceolate. Described from a living plant cultivated at 

 Kew, that was received in May, 1894, from the Durban Botanic Gardens, Natal, 

 without information as to locality." 



The plant sent to Kew was reared from the one from which our figure is 

 taken, but we do not find that most of the leaves are hastate, though many of them 

 are so, and the uppermost ones are usually lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate as shown 

 in the drawing. The genus Buddleia contains about 70 species inhabiting tropical 

 and sub-tropical Asia and America, and South Africa. In Natal we have now 3 

 known species, none of which have any economic value. The plant described 

 above is somewhat unpleasantly scented when in flower, and comes near to Wood's 

 No. 574 gathered at Inanda in June 1879, if it be not identical with it. It flowers 

 in July and August. 



Fig. 1, Branch a little reduced; 2, Flower; 3, Corolla opened; 4, ovary and 

 style ; all enlarged. 



PLANT 61. 



ONCINOTIS INANDBNSIS, Wood & Evans, n. sp. 

 Natural Order APOCYNBAE. 



Stems wide climbing, terete, branching, bark dark coloured ; twigs finely 

 pubescent, older almost glabrous, branches opposite, swollen at base, and usually 

 joined by a hard woody ring, naked and bare below, leafy above. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, exstipulate, but joined by an interpetiolar ring, broadly ob-lanceolate, 

 obliquely acuminate at apex, tapering to the petiole at base, veins and veinlets 

 prominent beneath, and plainly visible above, edge quite entire, glabrous ; 2^-4 

 inches long, f-1^ inches wide. Petiole 2-3 lines long, curved, dark green and 

 swollen at base. Inflorescence in few flowered axillary racemes, which are occa- 

 sionally branched, and much shorter than the leaves. Bracts very small, rusty 

 pubescent, deciduous, proceeding from a ring or sheath at base of calyx. Calyx 

 5 cleft nearly to base, tube turbinate, lobes deltoid, obtuse, erect, finely rusty 

 pubescent, 1^ lines long. Disk 5 lobed. Corolla salver shaped, 5 lobed, lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, reflexed, a little longer than the tube, with 5 deltoid acuminate 

 scales in throat, alternate with the lobes, and one sixth their length, exserted, tube 

 barrel shaped, finely pubescent on outer surface, and with white pilose hairs 



