PLATE 315. 
NIEBUHRIA ROsMARINOIDES, Sond. (Fl. Cap., Vol. I, p. 60). 
Natural Order, CapParIDEBAR. 
A much branched shrub, 6 to 10 feet in height. Bark, light coloured, 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, 3 or sometimes 5-foliolate ; 
common petiole + to $ inch long, secondary ones 1 line long, channelled above ; 
leaflets linear, entire, mucronate, aes, channelled above, midrib very con- 
spicuous beneath, terminal leaflet 1 to 24 inches long, 1 line wide, lateral ones 1 to 
12 inch jong. Stipules minute, lanceolate, deciduous, dark brown. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, pedunculate ; pedicels # to 1 inch long. Calyx 4-parted, tube 
short, lobes ovate or obovate, ciliate, green, valvate in bud, strongly reflexed at 
maturity, concave, deciduous, 3 lines long Petals 4, oblong, acute, of delicate 
texture, about half the length of the calyx lobes, yellow-green, deciduous, i inserted 
in throat of calyx. Stamens about 16, inserted on a short torus, filaments more 
than twice as long as the calyx; white; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary on a 
long stalk, which reaches to 1 inch in length, cylindrical, 1-celled, several ovuled. 
Style 0, stigma depressed. Fruit a berry, oval: but often Ganehiohen 4 in the centre, 
from two to 3 or 4 seeded. 
Habitat: Navau: Coast districts. Near Verulam, 500 feet alt., July, Wood, 
in Colonial Herbarium, No. 7626; near Sydenham, March, Wood, No. 8705. 
Drawn and described from Wood’s 8705. 
The genus Niebuhria, according to the “ Index Kewensis,” includes 10 species, 
of which 3 are found in Natal, 3 others in South Africa, 3 in Hast Indies, and 1 
in Madagascar. We are not aware that any of them have useful properties of any 
kind, and all the Natal species are small shrubs. 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section of flower; 2, flower opened; 3,a stamen; 4, ovary 
with its stipes ; 5, longitudinal section of ovary ; all enlarged. 
