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Drawn and described from plants in flower in the Natal Botanic Garden, 

 September, 1898, the plants having been originally brought from near the Tongaat 

 Biver. 



This genus contains 17 species, of which 14 are South African, 1 from 

 Palestine, 1 from Abyssinia, and one from North Africa ; besides the one above 

 described only one other is found in Natal. A. iiatalense was first described by 

 Mr. Baker in the Flora capensis, Vol. VI., Page 519, and the perianth is there 

 said to be greenish, and in Wood's No 200 it is so, but in the specimens 

 gathered by Miss Rich they are as described in the text. Plants of it have 

 flowered in the Botanic Gardens for the last two years, and the same colour has been 

 mantained. In Wood's No. 200 the plant is usually a little larger than the Tongaat 

 specimens, but there does not appear to be any other difference between them. The 

 natives do not seem to have any distinctive name for it, nor is it applied to any 

 useful purpose so far as we are aware. 



Kg. 1, Plant about natural size; 2, Flower; 3, Perianth lobe with enclosed 

 stamen ; 4, Stamen ; 5, Ovary ; 6, Section of ovary ; all variously enlarged. 



PLATE 66. 



CLAUSENA INOEQUAMS, Benth. 

 Natural Order RDTACE.E. 



A shrub or small tree with dark coloured bark, which is usually thickly 

 studded with lenticels. Leaves unequally pinnate, 6-8 inches long, leaflets alter- 

 nate or subbpposite, in 4-6 pairs, petiolnlate, glabrous, lateral ones very unequal 

 sided, the lower portion of the lamina being much smaller than the upper portion, 

 terminal one subequal ; broadly lanceolate, margin unequally crenate, attenuate to 

 an obtuse or sub-acute apex ; 1^-2 inches long ; ^-f inch broad, petiolules 2-3 

 lines long, pubescent, terminal one 6-9 lines long, swollen and bent below the 

 lamina. Flowers paniculate, white ; Calyx small, 4 parted, sepals lanceolate, 

 pubescent. Petals 4, concave, free, spreading, imbricate in bud, deciduous. 

 Stamens 8, hypogynous, filaments free, subulate, flattened. Anthers sagittate. 

 Ovary on a short cylindrical fleshy torus, obtusely 3 lobed, 3 celled, ovules 2 in 

 each cell, collateral. Style short, thick, deciduous. Stigma 3 lobed. Berry 

 fleshy, dark purple, the epicarp thickly studded with minute glands ; 1-2 seeded 

 by abortion. 



Habitat : NATAL : Coast and midlands, common. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, September, 1898- 



A shrub or small tree called by the natives um-Sanga, or um-Nugambili, and 

 used by them medicinally. In the Flora Capensis this plant is called Myaris 

 incequalis, Presl, the generic name being an anagram of Amyris, a genus of Burse- 

 racese, this genus is now abolished, and this, the only species, is now included in 

 Clausena, the only difference between the two genera being that in one the ovules 

 are superposed, in the other collateral. C. inoequalis is also found in the Cape 

 Colony and extends to Central Africa. According to the Index Kewensis the genus 

 includes about 14 species, the greater portion of which are natives of India, and at 

 least one of them has there a high repuation as a medicinal plant. The flowers 

 are sweetly scented, and the leaves when bruised have a somewhat unpleasant 

 odour. 



