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PLATE 231. 



KRAUSSIA LANCEOLATA, Sond. (in Linn, xxiii., p. 53). 

 Natural Order, T 



An erect branching shrub reaching to 15 feet in height, branches yellowish, 

 quadrisulcate, compressed at nodes, glabrous, twigs green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 stipulate, lanceolate, tapering to the short petiole, and upwards to an obtuse or 

 subacute apex, margins entire, wavy, slightly recurved, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 veiny on both surface; 3 If inches long, f-l| inch wide; petiole 2-4 lines long. 

 Stipules cuspidate from a broad base, the cusp linear, 1^-2 lines long. Inflor- 

 escence, axillary, cymose, cymes very much shortrr than thn leaves, few-flowered, 

 flowers scented. Calyx gamosepalous, 5-toothed,- tube ovate, lobes obtuse or 

 subacute, equalling tube, 1-2 lines long including the very short pedicel. Bracts 

 and bracteoles sheathing, ciliolate. Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, tube cylindrical, 

 widening a little to throat, shorter than lobes, with a dense ring of white hairs in 

 throat, lobes oblong, recurved, 2-lines long, 1 line wide. Stamens 5, alternate 

 with corolla lobes, filaments shorter than corolla lobes ; anthers 2-celled, apiculate, 

 the connective being produced beyond the cells ; shorter or longer than the 

 filaments. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Style equalling the stamens, 

 gradually thickened towards the apex. Stigmas 2, short, thickened, more or 

 less recurved. Fruit a 2-celled globose berry the size of a small pea, crowned by 

 the calyx lobes. 



Habitat: NATAL: Inanda, 1,800 feet alt., October, Wood No. 255 ; near Dur- 

 ban, 100 feet alt., September, Wood. 



Drawn and described from the Durban specimens. 



The genus Kraussia is exclusively an African one, and includes 3 species only, 

 two of which are found in Natal, and one in Tropical Africa. In the Flora 

 ('apensis 4 species are enumerated, one, K. pavettoides has been removed to 

 Webera, and is now known as Webera Sonderiana, the other to Tricalysia, and is 

 known as Tricalysia Sonderiana; these two species will be figured when opportu- 

 nities occur. The plant here described is known to the natives as um-Sunambuzi. 



Fig. 1 , portion of branch with inflorescence ; 2, calyx ; 3, corolla opened ; 4, 

 ovary, style and stigma ; 5, fruit ; all enlarged. 



