152 LXVII. IlUEIACE^. 



Corolla tubular ; limb -4-, rarely 5-lobed, throat villous or gla- 

 brous. Stamens a little exserted, or sessile and included. 

 Stigma simple or 2-fid. Capsules subglobose, membranous, 

 crowned with the distant calycine lobes, 2-celled, dehiscing at 

 the summit. Seeds very numerous, minute, on subglobose 

 placentas. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 8. 



A very large tropicul and subtropical gcmis. The 17 or 18 Cape si)ecies 

 are chieily Eastern or from Natal ; they are small herbs, with opposite 

 leaves, setulose stipules, and either scattered or aggregated small flowers. 



Tribe 3. Guettaede,e. (Gen. 7-8.) 



7. VANGUERIA, Comm. 



Calyx- tube short, obovate or hemispherical ; limb spreading, 

 5- or rarely ^-toothed or parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 5- rarely 

 4-cleft, hairy inside, the lobes lanceolate, acute, reflexed. 

 Stamens with very short filaments, and scarcely exserted, ob- 

 long, acute anthers. Stigma capitate, cylindrical, thick or 

 truncate at both ends, obtuse or toothed. Drupe when ripe 

 not crowned by the calyx-lobes, but having a sinuated terminal 

 areola, containing 5, or by abortion 4-2, bony 1-seeded nuts 

 which are obtuse at base, acute at apex. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 13. 



Shrubs or small trees, with ovate or oblong leaves, acute stipules and 

 cymose or panicled, axillary, small, white or reddish flowers. — 7 Cape spe- 

 cies, all Eastern. 



8. ANCYLANTHUS, Desf. 



Calyx-tube adnate, hemispherical; limb 5- parted, the seg- 

 ments lanceolate. Corolla tubular, incurved, the tube at base 

 within girt by a ring of stiff, reflexed hairs, otherwise nude, 

 mdening at "the throat ; limb subequally 5-parted, the two 

 upper lobes longer, all erecto-patent, callous-subulate at their 

 apices. Anthers 5, sagittate, subsessile in the throat of the co- 

 rolla. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules solitary ; style shortly exserted, 

 filiform ; stigma cylindrical-mitriform, truncate at base, bluntly 

 5-lobed at apex. Fruit ?— DC. Prod. iv. p. 468. 



J. rubiginosa, Desf., first found in Angola, has been sent by Mr. Moff'att 

 to Dr. Pappe, from Mai=ilikatzis country. It is a shrub, with hairy 

 branches and twigs ; short petioled, elliptical, obtuse leaves, pubescent 

 above, more densely so and netted-veined beneath. Peduncles short, 

 axillary, about 3-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, over 1 inch long, clothed 

 externally with foxy or rust-coloured, spreading hairs. 



Tribe 4. Alberte^e. (Gen. 9.) 



9. ALBERTA, E. Mey. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, 10-ribbed ; limb 5 -fid, 3 lobes short, 

 acute, 2 oblong, obtuse, enlarged in fruit. Corolla elongate, 



