BOTANY. 403 



Between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River. 



This marked and handsome species belongs to Bentham's sub-genus 

 Euerica, and to his section Efthebus, where it will stand close to E. 

 armata, Klotzsch. That species, however, is a far more hispid plant 

 than E. Oatesii. "Erica, near E. coccinea, Berg." of former edition, 

 which, however, belongs to the sub-genus Syringodea, Benth. 



Order OLEACE^E. 



32. Jasminum stenolobum, n. sp. 



Young branches villose- pubescent, afterwards glabrous. Leaves 

 simple, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sometimes acute, pubes- 

 scent, -g-ij inch long, shortly petioled. Flowers terminal, generally 

 solitary, calyx pubescent, with about ten, acicular, obtuse lobes, 3-4 

 lines long. Corolla-tube slender, about 9-10 lines long, with about ten 

 to fifteen, narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute lobes, a little shorter than 

 the tube. Fruit not seen. 



Matabele Land. — The Rev. W. Elliott has collected specimens in 

 Matabele Land with somewhat shorter leaves and calyx-lobes than 

 the one found by Mr. Oates, but I believe they represent only a form 

 of the same species. Kirk's specimen from Highlands of Batoka 

 Country, Zambesi District, seems identical with Mr. Oates's piece ; 

 while Meller's, from Manganja Hills, Buchanan's, n. 225, from Shire 

 Highlands, and Baines's from the " South African Gold-field," north 

 of the Transvaal (past flowering), may also well represent the same 

 species. A specimen from the Tamalakan River, Lake Ngami, col- 

 lected by M'Cabe, has calyx-lobes \ an inch long, but apparently 

 belongs to the same species, as may also Hildebrandt, n. 1941, from 

 " Festland bei Mombassa, Zanzibar." 



A marked species, belonging to the simple-leaved group ; allied to 

 J. multipartitum, Hochst., but readily distinguished by the pubescent 

 leaves and calyx-lobes, and by the more numerous lobes of the corolla. 

 The specimens above enumerated, present a few slight differences 

 between themselves ; still I believe all represent forms of the same 

 species. The description, however, is not drawn up so as to include the 

 more extreme forms mentioned. "Jasminum, sp." of former edition. 



Order APOCYNACE^. 



33. Carissa tomentosa, A. Rich. 



Matabele Land. 



Mr. Oates's specimen is clearly identical with the above, of which 

 A. Richard remarks, " les fleurs sont roses et non blanches, et enfin 

 ses fruits sont de couleur claire et non noirs." There is, however, a 

 specimen, collected on an island at the Victoria Falls, by Sir John Kirk, 

 marked " spiny bush, white flowers," which has the tomentose calyx 

 and young shoots of the above, but the leaves almost glabrous ; the 



