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4-toothed at apex, § inch long, neuter ; disk |-| inch diameter, 

 florets tubular, 5-toothed, 4-5 lines long, teeth linear-lanceolate, 

 equalling tube. Receptacle convex. Pappus scales broad, 

 lacerate at apex. Achenes turbinate, angular, glabrous and 

 shining. 



Habitat : Near Durban, J. Medley Wood, No. 7602. 



This appears to come near to Stobaea scolymoides, D.C , a 

 plant of which we have not seen specimens. We have only 

 met with it near the coast. 



Oncinotis inandeusis, Wood & Evans. 



Stems climbing, branching, terete with dark coloured bark 

 young ones finely pubescent, older glabrous, branches opposite' 

 swollen at base, and generally connected by a hard woody ring' 

 naked and glabrous below, leafy above. Leaves opposite' 

 petiolate, exstipulate, but joined by an interpetiolar ring 

 broadly oblanceolate, obliquely acuminate at apex, narrowing 

 to base, veins and veinlets prominent beneath, plainly visible 

 above, margins subentire ; 2^-4 inches long, f-lf inches wide, 

 glabrous ; petiole 2-3 lines long, curved, dark green and 

 swollen at base. Racemes axillary, few flowered, sometimes 

 branching, much shorter than the leaves. Bracts very small, 

 rusty-pubescent, deciduous, springing from a ring or channel 

 at base of calyx. Calyx 5-fid almost to base, tube turbinate, 

 lobes deltoid, obtuse, erect, finely rusty-pubescent, 1-H lines 

 long. Disk 5-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, renexed, a little longer than tube, twisted to 

 the left in aestivation ; with 5 deltoid acuminate scales in 

 throat, alternate with lobes, and one-sixth of their length, 

 exserted ; tube finely pubescent on outer portion, internally 

 with white pilose hairs. Stamens 5, at base of corolla tube, 

 filaments very short, expanded, and pilose with white hairs at 

 base. Anthers linear-sagittate, acuminate at apex, 3-celled, 

 introrse, conniving and adhering to the stigma near its centre. 

 Style short, stigma thickened, elongate, divided at apex into 

 two short, acute lobes. Carpels 2, ovules numerous. Follicles 

 2, divergent or parallel, cylindrical, acute, 6-8 inches long, 

 glabrous, seeds linear-oblong, minutely warted, brown, comose 

 at apex with numerous white hairs, which are 1^ times longer 

 than the seed. 



Habitat : In woods, Inanda, 1,800 feet alt, September ; J. 

 Medley Wood, No. 1009, and with follicles, October, J. Medley 

 Wood, No. 6159. 



Hitherto found only in the locality indicated, where it 

 climbs to the tops of the highest trees, and there bears its leaves 

 and flowers. 



