PLATE 392. 
Raypia pumpToRUM, Lam. (FI. Cap. Vol. 3, p. 7, sub. R. Kraussii, Harv.) 
Natural Order, Rusiacea. 
An erect shrub, sometimes spiny, bearing numerous white flowers which 
become yellow in fading. Bark rough, dull, glabrous, branches elongated, often 
producing arrested lateral shoots ; sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
stipulate, oval, ovate-oblong or obovate, rounded at apex, tapering to the petiole 
at base, veins ‘pinnate, 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib; finely hispid on both 
surfaces; 1 to 2 inches long, # to 14 inch wide; petiole 2 to 4 lines long, 
narrowly winged in upper portion by the decurrent lamina of the leaf; stipules 
subulate, 2 lines long, hispidulous like the petiole. Inflorescence axillary or 
terminal on short lateral branchlets; peduncles 2 to 5-flowered ; pedicels up to ¢ 
inch long, hispidulous Calyx gamosepalous, 5-lobed, tube campanulate, pube- 
scent, + inch long, 2 lines wide at throat, lobes ovate oblong or spathulate, unequal, 
broad based with wide interspaces, up to + inch long, spreading. Corolla gamo- 
petalous, 5-lobed, silky externally, tube a little longer than the calyx tube, shorter 
than its lobes, cylindrical, with a ring of silky white hairs a little above the base, 
lobes ovate, horizontally spreading, the whole corolla 1 inch diameter. Stamens 5 
inserted in throat of corolla, alternate with its lobes; anthers. linear-oblong, sub- 
sessile, exserted, 2-celled, brown. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, many seeded. Stigma 
club-shaped, 2-lobed at apex. Fruit dry, crowned by the remains of the calyx. 
Habitat. Natat: Krauss, 129; Sanderson, 200: Gerrard § McKen, 864; near 
Durban, May, !Vood, 1313; and October, 9934. 
The genus Randia contains about 90 species, natives of tropical and sub- 
tropical regions, three only of which are found in Natal, while at least 15 are 
known from tropical Africa. R. dwmetorum appears in the Flora Capensis as 
Randia Kraussti, Harv., and has also been known as Randia lachnostphonium, but 
the name here given is the correct one; it appears to be rather a variable plant, 
and is not uncommon in the coast and midland districts of the Colony. It is too 
small to have any value as timber, and so far as known to us it has no valuable 
properties; it bears flowers in abundance, and is probably worth cultivation. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, portion of corolla opened; 3, ovary, style and stigmas; 4 
fruit natural size; except fig. 4, all enlarged. , 
