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PLATE 211. 



Ctcnium eacemosum, Benth. (in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1, (1835), 368). 

 Natural Order, Soeophulaeinej;. 



A suffruticose plant reaching 1-3 feot in height and sometimes copiously 

 branching. Stem more or less ribbed and channelled, hispid-pubescent. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, lowest broadly ob-lanceolate, subentire, 2-2^ inches long, ^f 

 wide, upper ones varying from ob-lanceolate, oblong, or linear-oblong, to linear; 

 margin entire in lower third of leaf, remainder unequally incised, or deeply 

 toothed, acute at apex, cuneate at base, both surfaces hispid with hairs springing 

 from a broad flattened base ; petiole very short. Flowers in a long loose terminal 

 many flowered raceme. Pedicels 3 lines long, each subtended by a linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate floral leaf, ^ inch long, which is irregularly and sparsely inciso- 

 dentate. Bracts 2, linear, adhering, to opposite sides of the calyx tube at J its 

 length from base, and reaching to half its length. Calyx gamosepalous, tubular, 

 tube 10 ribbed, ^ inch long, hispid on the ribs ; limb 5-lobed, lobes subulate 1-1 ■§■ 

 line long. Corolla gamopetalous, tube f inch long, cylindrical at base, ribbed 

 above, a little longer than calyx tube, curved, limb sub-bilabiate, spreading 

 to 2-2:^ inches, upper lobe deeply 2-fid, lowest lobes largest, lateral similar, all 

 oblong-obovate, pink, veiny. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted near base of 

 corolla, included. Anthers 1 -celled, dorsally afl&xed, filaments pilose with long 

 jointed hairs. Style short. Stigma clavate. cJapsule included in base of the 

 calyx tube, and about half its length, ovate, fleshy, subcompressed, 2 celled, 

 many seeded. 



Habitat : Natal : Hill sides in midland and upper districts. Inanda, 1,800 

 feet alt, Wood 13 ; Lidgetton, 4,000 feet alt, Wood No. 7731. 



Drawn and described from "Wood's No. 7731, 



A very handsome plant which has hitherto defied all attempts at cultivation, 

 many of its congeners are thought to be parasitical, chiefly it is supposed on the 

 roots of grasses; however that may be, the species here described has not jet been 

 cultivated and stands as a puzzle for horticulturists. The natives have no name for 

 it nor is it applied to any useful purpose. 



Fig. 1 , calyx ; 2, section of corolla ; 3, portion of corolla tube opened to show 

 insertion of stamens ; 5, ovary style and stigma ; 6, cross section of fruit ; all 

 enlarged. 



