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PLATE 246. 



TuRB^A HBTEBOPHYLLA, Sm. (Fl. Cap. Vol. 1, p. 245). 

 Natural Order, Mbliaoej!. 



A shrub or small tree with dark reddish-brown bark, twigs pubescent. 

 Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, deciduous, ovate, acute, acuminate, 

 or occasionally trilobed at apex, rounded or acute at base, margin entire ; pubes- 

 cent, veins and veinlets prominent beneath ; mature leaves 4 to 5^ inches long, 2 to 

 2f inches wide ; petiole 4 to 6 lines long, densely pubescent. Flowers solitary, 

 crowded near the ends of short branchlets, bracteolate at base. Peduncles 4 to 6 

 lines long, pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed, pubescent, teeth small, erect, 

 acute. Petals 5, free, linear-spathulate, 1 8 to 22 lines long, yellow-green, recurved, 

 glabrous. Stamens 10, monadelphous, the staminal tube slender, white, widening 

 near apex, and then divided into 20 linear, recurved teeth ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 apiculate, 2-celled, seated on summit of staminal tube at base of the teeth. Ovary 

 10-celled, cells, 2-ovuled ; style longer than the staminal tube, stigma depressed- 

 globose, umbonate. Capsule subglobose, lO-furrowed, 10-lobed, 5 to 9 lines 

 diameter. Seeds subreniform, curved, orange, hilum broadly winged, wing whitish, 

 reflexed, appearing arillate, 3-lines long. 



Habitat ; Natal : From coast 2-3,000 above sea level, Umzinyati, 1 -2,000 

 feet alt., November, Wood No. 768 ; Berea, 150 feet alt., November, Wood No. 

 8023. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, it is known to the natives as um-Lulana, or 

 Mandhlozaan. The genus contains 16 species natives of Tropical Asia, Australia, 

 Tropical and South Africa. In Natal we have two species only, the one here 

 described, and T. obtusifolia, Hochst, a shrub which is sometimes used to form an 

 ornamental fence, and which will be figured and described in a future part of this 

 work. 



Fig. 1 J upper portion of staminal tube opened, with anthers in position ; 2, 

 portion of style and stigma ; 3, cross section of ovary ; all enlarged. 



