116 XITI. BIXINE.E (OLIVER). [Oncoba. 



Nile I«and. Abyssinia {Schweinf. and Asch. Enum^. 



Mozamb. Distr. Shire river, Zambesia, Dr. Kirk! 



Var. )8. angoJensis, margin of the stigma divided into several lobes capitate or thickened at 

 the extremity ; Angola, distr. Golungo Alto and Bumbo, not infreqnent, Br. Welwitsch .', who 

 describes the flower as very fragrant. The fruit js edible. 



Also in Arabia, and at Natal, Harvey^ Thes. Cap. 142. 



2. O. brachyanthera, 0/^w. Shrub, with the young shoots and leaves 

 more.or less hairy, armed with short, slightly curved spines. Bark minutely 

 warted with pale lenticels. Leaves rather coriaceous, more or less elliptical, 

 sometimes ovate or obovate, shortly acuminate, crenate-serrate, shortly stalked, 

 2-3 in. long, 1^-1| in. broad; secondary nerves prominent on the under 

 side of the older leaves, which become at length nearly or quite glabrous, 

 riowers about 2 in. across, terminal or upon short lateral shoots. Calyx at 

 length falling away. Anthers oblong, very short, not more than twnce as 

 long as broad, cordate-based, obtuse, without a tip. Stigma with about 6 

 radiate, broadly capitate, distinct lobes. Fruit globose, about 1^-2 in. ditini, 

 smooth with a hard shell. 



Upper Guinea. Found on the site of an old town on thfe river Bagroo, Ma7i7i ! 



3. O. Petersiana, OUv. A softly p ibescent shrub, with membranous 

 obovate or obovate-oblong leaves, rounded or very obtuse at the extremity, 

 slightly undulate, more or less pubescent on both sides, 3-4| in. long, lj-2 

 in. broad. Peduncles terminal or axillary, sometimes leafy, -g- in. to 2 in. 

 long. Flowers about 1|— 2 in. diam. Calyx deciduous. Anthers linear. 

 Ovary hairy. Lobes of the stigma about 6, subulate, ascending or slightly 

 recurved. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoidal, obscurely ridged and fuiTowed or nearly 

 terete, shortly cuspidate, shortly pubescent-tomentose, at length rather sca- 

 brous and glabrescent, separating into numerous narrow valves when ripe. — 

 Chlanis macrophylla, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. i. 145. 



Mozaxub. Distr. Shupanga, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! Peters! also at Delagoa Bay. 

 Klotzsch's specific name I cannot adopt under Oncob'a, since numerous species have much 

 larger leaves. 



4. O. Tettensis, Olw. A pubescent shrub, with obovate or oblong, 

 obtuse, rather coriaceous, shortly-stalked, undidate leaves, 1^-2 in. long, 

 but scarcely fully grown in the specimen seen. Peduncles usually axil 

 lary, spreading or ascending, about f-ly in. long. Flowers 1-1| in. 

 across. Calyx 3-partite; lobes at length deciduous. Anthers linear. Lobes 

 of the stigma minute, triangular-subulate, slightly spreading or recurved. 

 Fruit ovoid-globose, with a sharp cuspidate point, shortly tomentose, with 

 numerous rather deep longitudinal furrows. — Chlanis Tettensis^ Klotzsch, 

 I.e. 



This species is united with the preceding, by Dr. Hooker, in Harvey and Sender's 'Flora 

 Capensis,' ii. 584, and perhaps rightly. 



Mozamb. Distr. Tete and Shupanga, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! Dr. Peters ! 



Although I have had the opportunity of comparing our specimens with those named by 

 Klotz?ch in the Berlin Herbarium, I cannot be quite sure that I hive rightly referred Dr. 

 Kirk's plants, wh'ih alone show the two forms of fruit well grown. 



5. O. Kirkii, OUv. A glabrous shrub, with obovate, obtuse or shortly 



