Vangueria.'] Lxx. RUBUCEiE (hiern). 147 



glabrous, equalling the corolla or exserted ; stigma capitate, sometimes 

 sulcate or subcalyjffcriform, often shortly 5-3-lobed at the tip, glabrous ; 

 ovules solitary, anatropous, pendulous from above the middle of the 

 ovary. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 5-3 or putamen 5-3-celled. Seeds 

 oblong ; umbilicus ventral ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 straight, radicle superior, terete. — Shrubs or trees, sometimes spinous 

 or subscandent, with opposite or alternate branches, opposite (rarely 

 pseudo-verticillate in fours) oval leaves, apiculate stipules usually 

 connate at the base, and small white or greenish flowers arranged in 

 axillary or lateral clusters or short panicles. 



A genus of moderate size, confined to the warmer parts of Asia and Africa. 

 Unarmed or with spines of j^-^ i^- > erect. Leaves opposite, riowers 5-8-meroii.s. 

 Corolla-lobes subapiculate or mucronulate or subacute, not caudate. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate or oval. 



Fruits terete or roundedly 4-6-sided. 



Tawny-tomentose. Leaves usually rounded or obtuse 



at the base 1. V. infausta% 



Glabrous. Leaves usually narrowed at both ends . . 2. V. edulitf. 



Fruits ribbed and sulcate 3. V. ubyssinko. 



Calyx truncate or with small subulate teeth. 



Leaves about 1-1^ in. long. Branches intricate . . . 4. T. scnerialciisls. 

 Leaves usually exceeding 1^ in. Branches n<jt intricate. 

 Leaves paler beneath (in the dry state). 



Calyx 5-toothed, more or less hairy b. V. canthioides. 



Calyx truncate, glabrous. 



Flowers 2-3 together 6. V. emnyTrwides, 



Flowers 6-7 together 1. V. tvinhcUidata, 



Leaves light green on both sides (in the dry state). 



Pedicels y^-^ in. long. Ovary o-celied 8. F. concolor. 



Pedicels |-| in. long. Ovary 3-4- eel led .... 9. F. mcmbranacea. 

 Corolla-lobes caudate-acuminate. 

 Corolla toraentose outside ; lobes 6. Ovary 6-cclled. I'n- 



armed 10. F. velutina. 



Corolla glabrous outside ; lobes 6 or 8. Ovary 3-4-celled, 



Spinous 11. V. pauciflora. 



Spines i-1 in. Subscandent. Leaves crowded, pseudo-verticillate 



in fours. Flowers 4-5 -merous 12. V. tetraphylla. 



1. V. infausta, Burclu Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 258 c. not, p. 259 fig., 

 p. 451, p. 499 (1824). A tawny-tomentose unarmed shrub, 4-10 feet 

 high, or a small tree, inodorous, with several erect stems. Branches 

 terete or the extremities subcompressed ; bark whitish. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate oval or suborbicular, horizontal, softly and shortly 

 tomentose, usually rounded or obtuse at the base and somewhat 

 narrowed at apex, greenish above, rather paler beneath, inconspicuously 

 net-veined, chartaceous, deciduous, 1^0 by 1-5 in. ; lateral veins 

 about 7-10 pairs ; stipules caudate-acuminate from a broad ovate basi', 

 greenish, |-J in. long, covering a ring of setose hairs, deciduous; petiole 

 jj-| in., tomentose. Flowers greenish, pentamerous, | in. long, shortly 

 pedicellate ; panicles 2-3-chotomous, often with a flower in the forks, 

 more or less hairy, 1-2 in. diameter, mostly lateral in axils of fading or 

 fallen leaves, below the young leaves ; common peduncle short, bnif- 

 teate ; brarteoles short. Calyx-lobes ovate or oval, spi-eading, pcrsis- 



