PAVET'TA CAFFRA. 
SOUTH AFRICAN PAVETTA. 
EXOGENZ OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
CALYCIFLORE, (Gi s Aosta fone TETRANDRIA, 
OF | ae 4 ich MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. AS this voi ttins. OF LINNEUS, 
No. 193. ° 
GENUS. Paver. Lrwwavs. Carve tubus nines limbus parvus — 
4-dentatus. Corowa i bis longiore,limbo 
‘pane meet ANTHERS 4 ad fancem subsessiles, mieten: longé extra tu- 
loborum api ee clavatus,s ubinteger 
— stigmatis eruribus adglutinatis oot = ac ne fs re Moret Bacca 
Pyren# chartacee 
intus or aut concave dorso Al tactdepecae. ALBUMEN cartilaginewm. 
radicula Fav 
TICES s asiatien aut africane. Foura 0 opposita. StipuLe basi late ae acute 
aut in aristam setaceam desinentes. Corymbi terminales. Flores albi 
Prod. iv- pp. 485, 490. 
SPECIES. PavetTra CAFFRA. eee FIL.); — foliis obovatis, ramisque 
glabris; stipulis subulatis, basi herbaceo-membranaceis, connatis ; 3 eymis fasti- 
iatis, calycibus 4-fidis, segmentis mbsaiie corollz lobis obovato-oblongis mu- 
cronulatis tubo brevioribus, 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PaveTTa. Catyx, tube ovate, limb 
four-toothed, small. Coro.ta salver-shaped; tube slender, round, 
longer than the lobes; limb four-parted, spreading. ANrTHers four, 
subsessile in the throat. STye protruded far beyond the tube of the 
corolla, = the length of the lobes, clavate at the apex, subentire, 
or the segments of the stigma agglutinated, scarcely or not at all 
divided. es drupaceous, crowned by the persisting calyx, subglo- 
sig bilocular, Pyren® papery within, plane or concave, gib 
n the back, monospermous. ALBUMEN cartilaginous. Empryo dorsal, 
erect, incurved ; cotyledons leafy, radicle long. 
ESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, Paverra Carrra. Sarvs erect, 
ranches ascending: Whole plant glabrous, except the stigma and 
the inside of the tube of the corolla. EAVES 23 inches long, 1} inch 
broad, obovate, petiolate. Srrputes small, herbaceous, persisting, 
dilated connate and membranaceous at the base, subulate at the apex. 
FiLowers in dense terminal cymes, perfumed: PeDICcELs with two 
opposite filamentous bracts in the middle. Caryx four-cleft, herba- 
ceous, segments subulate. Corotta white, hypocrateriform; tube 
(74 lines long) slender, cylindrical, greenish towards its base, hai 
within, especially in its upper part, hairs somewhat reflected: limb 
