Original Articles. 
ON MELIANTHUS TRIMENIANUS, #,f, AND THE 
AFFINITIES OF GREYIA SUTHERLANDI. 
By J. D. Hooxer, C.B., M.D., F.R.S. 
(Tas. 138.) 
-  Qy his return to Cape Town from an official visit to Namaqua 
Land, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of the Cape 
The scarlet colour of the flower circ er roocilell to my mind tha 
of the anomalous genus Greyia, Hook. & Harv., which I had, in 
opposition to my late friend Dr. Harvey's views, referred to the near 
neighbourhood of Melianthus. 1 could not but hope that the colour, 
so foreign to DMelianthee and so conspicuous in Greyta, might be 
affinity of the latter genus; an I e ith impatience the 
arrival of the preserved specimens which Sir Henry had promised me 
The next mail brought two, one in flower the other in young 
heless, I shall e the 
fin 
has lately flowered s the Chelsea Botanic Garden (for the first oer 
en pai and has been figured in the “ Botanical Magazine’ 
oe us (Diplerisma) Trmentanvs, foliolis | loriformibus 
ginibus dint integerrimis subtus villosis, stipulis solelatie 
racemis erectis, floribus verticillatis, pe etalorum gs won a com- 
missuras villosis ceterum glaberrimis, capsula glabra te 
Hab.—In Africee australi-occidentalis ditione rae Land, 
H. E. Sir H. Barkly. 
Fruticulus 2-3-pedalis, ramosus; ramis flexuosis, in exemplaribus 
nostris crassitie penne corvin®, cortice fusco, ligno sat duro. Folia 
s s revolutis, articulis inter 
~sckoiedtah subtus costaque pubescenti- 
~ bus; foliola 4-8 subhorizontalia, 1-24 poll. longa, = ll. lata, 
integerrimis ; supra glaberrima, luride v dia, — impressa, nervis 
us alba pi 
‘Hibus strictis inarticulatis cum pabe tenui i immixtis, 
Stipule age basi breviter adnate, 9 ae sub- 
vou. 2, [DECEMBER, 18 
