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1 mm. from the base. Sepals 7-8 mm. long, 4:5—5*5 mm. broad, elliptic or rounded at the 
apex. Petals 0:9-19 em. long, 6-7 mm. broad, obovate, narrowed at the base. Filaments 
1-5-2 mm. long; anthers 1°5-2°5 mm. long, oblong in outline. Ovar y of 5-9 carpels : style 
4°5-6°5 mm. long; stigma either discoid or stigmas as manv as the carpels. Fruit 0°8-1:4 
cm. long, 5-9 mm. in diameter, ellipsoid, more rarely subglobose.—-O. atropurpurea, var. 
natalitia, “ Flora Capensis,” I, 448; Sim, “ Forest and Forest Flora,” p. 163. 
Coast Recion.—Uitenhage Div.: Uitenhage, May, EF. and Z. 935; Motinsele Forest, 
December, Fegen in Herb. Forest Dept. 1816, 1818. 
EASTERN REGION.— Natal: Berea, 200 ft., August. Wood 10060; Wood in Natal 
Govt. Herb. 10062, 10064; without precise locality, Wood 6418; near Durban, Wood 72 ; 
Benvie, Karkloof, 4000-500 ft. Wylie in Natal Govt. Herb. 10826 : (Wood 10034); Umzin- 
yati, 200-500 ia October, Wood 11458; without precise locality, Cooper 1252. 
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SWAZILAND.—Komassan Valley, Havelock Concession, July, Galpin 983. 
TRANSVAAL. Without precise locality, Miss Stent, in Herb. Transvaal Mus. 8779. 
Pietersburg Div.: The Downs, Rogers 22133; Tzaneen. Rogers 12540. Barberton Div. : 
Umvoti Creek, near Barberton, 3000 ft., November, Galpin 660; Rogers 20267; Nelspruit, 
October, Breyer im Herb. Transvaal Mus. 17701: between White River and Nelspruit, 
Burtt-Davy 1510; Carolina, September, Roberts in Herb. Transvaal Mus. 15874. 
O. leptoclada ((liy., “Fl. Trop. Afr.” 1. 318). 
A bush, 2-3 ft. high (Galpin).» Branches somewhat pustulate with ash-grey bark and 
with the epi MIS peeling eff in membranous flakes. Young leaves 9:5—6:5 cm. long, ("6-1 
cm. broad, lancealate, subacute, tapering at the base, with serrated margins, sometimes 
subentire. Mature leaves 5-115 em. long, 14-24 em. broad, mostly oblanceolate, some- 
times lanceolate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, usually long-attenuate at the base, more 
rarely only narrowed, with the mid-rib prominent above and beneath, and the lateral veins 
distinct, with serrated margins, rare ‘lv subentire. Inflorescence mostly unbellate on 
abbreviated shoots, 3—4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. Pedicels 1-2°5 cm. long, 
articulated at the very base. Se pals 7 i mm. long, 5 mm. broad, obovate or elliptic, rounded 
attheapex. Pe op, | cm. long. 5 om. broad, obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed into 
a claw at the base. Filaments 5 mm. long ; anthers 1°5 mm. long, oblong-linear. Ovary of 2 
carpels ; style 4°5 mm. long ; stigma capitate. Fruit about 6 mm. in diameter, subglobose. 
TRANSVAAL.-- Barberton Div.: Barberton, November, Rogers 18264, and in Herb. 
Transvaal Mus, 15976; mountain sides, Moodies, near Barberton, September—October, 
3500 ft. Galpin 590 ; mountains near Barberton, Bolus 7693. Lydenburg Div.: Pilgrims 
Rest, c. 3500 ft., October, Rogers, 23068, and in Herb. Transvaal Mus. 20541. 
Ruopesia.—North-West Rhodesia: Pemba, 3500 ft., October, Rogers 8579; Ndola, 
October, Allen, 304; Chilanga, 3500 ft. Rogers 8455. | Umtali Div. : Odanzi River Valley, 
Teaque 399, 497. 
BELGIAN Conco: Elisabethville, 4800 ft., Rogers 10194. 
O. atropurpurea [PEO. in “Ann. Mus. Par.,” XVIT (1811), 4121. 
Small shrub, 3-5 ft. high. Branches densely covered with pedarens lenticels giving 
them a lepidote appearance to the naked eve. Leaves subsessile, (“8-5 cm. long, 0°4-1°9 
cm. broad, usually elliptic, rarely elliptic-ovate, elliptic-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, more 
rarely lanceolate, obtuse, rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, with serrated margins 
and the teeth usually triangular erect and acute, more rarely incurved, with the mid-rib 
