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GREYIA Hook. AND HARV. 
G. Sutherlandi Hook. and Harv. 
A moderately sized tree (Wood). Branches glabrous. Leaves simple, petioled, 4-10 cm. 
long; petiole 1-4 cm. long, somewhat compressed, glabrous, dilated and amplexicaul at 
the base; lamina 3-7 cm. long, 2-8 cm. broad, ovate, obtuse, somewhat cordate at the 
base, glabrous, 8-9-lobed with the lobes coarsely toothed, palmatinerved with distinct 
veins. Inflorescence a dense raceme, 7-11 cm. long, 3-5-5 cm. broad. Bracts 1 cm. long, 
5 em. broad, lanceolate, obtuse. Pedicels 1-5 cm. long, terete, glabrous. Sepals 5 mm. 
long, 3 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, connate at the base. Petals red, 1-15 cm. long, 
5-5 mm. broad, oblong, concave, rounded at the apex, glabrous, shortly ciliated. Disc 
basin-shaped, with a rim 2 mm. deep and produced into ten processes 2 mm. long, each 
bearing a flattened anther-like structure at the apex. Filaments reddish, 9-2 cm. long, 
terete, glabrous ; anthers 3 mm. long, oblong. Ovary 7 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, ovoid. 
subapocarpus, five-celled, each cell containing numerous ovules; style 5 mm. long, 
gradually narrowed above, minutely five-toothed at the apex, glabrous. Harv. Thes. 
Cap. t. 1, Harv. in Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. IT, 309; Wood, Natal Plants t. 373. 
Natal: Polela, June, Fernando, 83; and in Natal Govt. Herb. 10470; Ixopo, Septem- 
ber, Fannin in Natal Herb. 16241; Inanda, 2000 ft., Wood in Natal Govt. Herb. 95; Van 
Reenens Pass, 5800 ft., November, Wood 4691; without precise locality, Sutherland. 
DISTRIBUTION : Orange Free State, Tembuland, Stutterheim, Transvaal. 
ALLOPHYLUS Linn. 
we PETES RINA es ch calc, EA OE EN AE nea ER ING N N monophylla. 
Leaves trifoliate. 
Leaflets lanceolate; petiole glabrous; stigmas linear................. erosa. 
Leaflets mostly elliptic; petioles pubescent ; stigmas ovate........... africana. 
Leaflets obovate or oblanceolate ; petioles pubescent ; stigmas linear... decipiens. 
A. monophyllus Radkl. 
A large spreading shrub or small tree, 10-30 ft. high and up to 12 in. stem diameter 
(ex Sim). Branches with minute mealy pubescence and greyish bark. Leaves simple, 
petioled, 2-5-2-3 cm. long, 2-5-8 cm. broad, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, acuminate, 
subobtuse, slightly narrowed or more rarely subrotund at the base, glabrous above and 
beneath, sometimes with tufts of hairs in the angles of the lateral veins beneath, darker 
above, with coarsely serrated margins; petiole 1 -3-5 cm. long, terete, minutely pubescent 
or almost glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme, 4-17 cm. long, sometimes the flowers in groups 
of two on short secondary peduncles. Peduncles 1 -5—5 cm. long, terete, minutely pubescent 
or glabrous. Pedicels about 1-5 cm. long. Sepals unequal, the smaller 1-5 mm. long, 
1 mm. broad, elliptic, rounded above, deeply concave, glabrous; the larger 2 mm. long, 
1-75 mm. broad, subrotund, concave, glabrous. Petals 2 mm. long, spathulate, densely 
bearded within. Filaments 2-5 mm. long, linear, pilose; anthers 4 mm. long, oblong. 
Ovary 1 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, didymous, pubescent; style 0:75 mm. long, terete, 
glabrous; stigmas 0-75 mm. long, linear, divergent. Frwt 9 mm. long, 7 mm. in the 
diameter, obovate in outline, slightly narrowed at the base, glabrous. Schmidelia mono- 
phylla, Presl. Fl. Cap. I, 239. Sim, Forests and Forest Floras, 170, Pl. XXXII, Fig. 3, 
S. dregeana, Sond. in Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. I, 239. 
Without precise locality, Gerrard and McKen. 525, and in Natal Govt. Herb. 726. 
Natal: Inanda, April, Wood, 481, and in Colonial Herb., 5678, Tfafa, August (in 
fruit), Lansdell in Natal Herb. 16126 ; Imont, Wood, 2468 ; edge of bush at Spring Grange, 
c., 800 ft., April, Wood, in Natal Govt. Herb., 11248; without locality, Pappe. 
Zululand : Qudeni Forest, 6000 ft., February, Davis 118, and in Natal Govt. Herb., 
8700. 
DisTRIBUTION: Komgha, Kentani, East Pondoland, 
