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A large scandent shrub with terete branches. Young parts and inflorescence softly shortly 

 and appressedly pubescent. Leaves alternate, obovate, cuneate at base, rounded or very shortly 

 and abruptly narrowed to an emarginate apex, membranous or the smaller ones subcoriaceous, 

 green when dry, glabrous and with inconspicuous veins above, somewhat paler delicately veined 

 and puberulous beneath, 2 6J in. long by 1 3|in. wide; petiole ^ Jin. long. Cymes axil- 

 lary on the young shoots, | f in. long, bearing 3 5 flowers ; common peduncle | J in. long ; 

 lateral pedicels in. long, with a narrow bract at base about as long as themselves. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, small, creamy-white, articulated at base to pedicel ; in bud depresso-conical, about 

 j-in. high and broad. Calyx depresso-hemispherical, short, 5-fid, with flat base, puberulous out- 

 side ; lobes deltoid. Corolla much contorted sinistrorsely as regarded from within, shortly 

 pubescent outside except on imbricated sides of the lobes, glabrous inside, 5-lobed; lobes obtuse, 

 rounded, f ths of the depth of the corolla. Stamens 10, hairy, equal, in one row, inserted at base 

 of corolla. Ovary covered with very short hair, depresso-conical, 10-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; style 

 5-lobed at apex, shortly ha ; ry. 



S. Africa, Zulu-land, Incansla. Gerrard and M'Kenf no. 2015. 



13. ROYENA GLANDULOSA, Harvey MSS. 



E. foliis ovato-ellipticis, obtusis, ~basi rotundatis, subcoriaceis, subsessilibus ; floribus herma- 

 phroditis, plerumque tetrameris ; pedunculis unijloris; calyce ^-partita; corolld urceolatd; 

 staminibus 8 ; stylo apice 4-Zofro ; ovario 8-loculari ; fructibus ellipsoideis, glanduloso-hispidis. 



A large shrub, " with pretty foliage and habit," 8 10 feet high. Young shoots, peduncles 

 and fruit glanduloso-hispid, subferruginous. Branches spreading. Leaves alternate, ovate-ellip- 

 tical, obtusely pointed at apex, rounded at or near base, thinly coriaceous or firmly membranous, 

 ciliate and pilosulous beneath, \ lin. long by \ Jin. wide ; petioles about ^in. long, hirsute. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary on the young shoots, about \ in. long, urceolate, articulated to 

 the peduncle, tetramerous. Peduncles spreading, fin. long, 1-flowered, solitary. Calyx pilose 

 outside, pubescent inside, 4-partite ; lobes ^ in. long, lanceolate, acute, rather patent. Corolla 

 urceolate, glabrous but margin minutely ciliate, deeply 4-lobed ; lobes rounded, recurved above. 

 Stamens 8, in one row, inserted at base of corolla, short, equal, 2 opposite each lobe of the 

 corolla, pilose ; filaments short. Ovary hairy (except perhaps at middle), 8-celled ; style hairy, 

 4-lobed and glabrous at apex. Fruit ellipsoidal, scarcely \ in. long by \ in. thick, glandular- 

 hispid. Fruiting calyx much enlarged, \ in. long, loosely enclosing the fruit or reflexed, 4-partite; 

 lobes ovate-oblong, foliaceous, reddish when dry, about 8-nerved inconspicuously. 



Barely a flower is pentamerous. 



S. Africa, Port Natal, Tugela. Gerrard and M'Ken! no. 1608. 



PLATE II. Flowering and fruiting branches, natural size. a. Peduncle, magnified 5 dia- 

 meters, b. Hair of peduncle, magnified 30 diameters, c. Flowering calyx, magnified 5 dia- 

 meters, d. Interior of corolla with stamens, laid open, magnified 5 diameters, e. Stamen, 

 magnified 15 diameters, f. Pistil, magnified 5 diameters, g. Transverse section of ovary, 

 magnified 5 diameters. 



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