PLATE 315. 



NIEBUHKIA ROSMARINOIDES, Sond. (Fl. Cap., Vol. I , p. 60). 

 Natural Order, CAPPAETDEAB. 



A much branched shrub, 6 to 10 feet in height. Bark, light coloured, 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, 3 or sometimes 5-foliolate ; 

 common petiole % to ^ inch long, secondary ones 1 line long, channelled above ; 

 leaflets linear, entire, mucronate, glabrous, channelled above, midrib very con- 

 spicuous beneath, terminal leaflet 1 to 2^ inches long, 1 line wide, lateral ones 1 to 

 If inch long. Stipules minute, lanceolate, deciduous, dark brown. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary, pedunculate ; pedicels f to 1 inch long. Calyx 4-parted, tube 

 short, lobes ovate or obovate, ciliate, green, valvate in bud, strongly reflexed at 

 maturity, concave, deciduous, 3 lines long Petals 4, oblong, acute, of delicate 

 texture, about half the length of the calyx lobes, yellow-green, deciduous, inserted 

 in throat of calyx. Stamens about 16, inserted on a short torus, filaments more 

 than twice as long as the oalyx ; white; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary on a 

 long stalk, which reaches to 1 inch in length, cylindrical, 1 -celled, several ovuled. 

 Style 0, stigma depressed. Fruit a berry, oval, but often constricted in the centre, 

 from two to 3 or 4 seeded. 



Habitat : NATAT, : Coast districts. Near Verulam, 500 feet alt., July, Wood, 

 in Colonial Herbarium, No. 7626 ; near Sydenham, March, Wood, No. 8705. 



Drawn and described from Wood's 8705. 



The genus Niebuhria, according to the " Index Kewensis," includes 1 species, 

 of which 3 are found in Natal, 3 others in South Africa, 3 in Bast Indies, and 1 

 in Madagascar. We are not aware that any of them have useful properties of any 

 kind, and all the Natal species are small shrubs. 



Fig. 1 , longitudinal section of flower ; 2, flower opened ; 3, a stamen ; 4, ovary 

 with its stipes ; 5, longitudinal section of ovary ; all enlarged. 



