Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
O. 
Gerrardii Send F«v>. nmt-4, Chifilana. A virgate shrub or small tree with straight slender stems. Leaves 10-20 cun. long, opposite, shining, coriaceous, entire, 
eTltot lanceolate pointed, glabrous, but bearded in the axils of the veins on the under surface, shortly petiolate. Inflorescence axillary, shortly paniculate, .2-20 
toe^ Tube of the corolla 2-5-4 e.». long, slender, with spreading lanceolate lobes 1-5-11 cm long. Fruit coriaceous, stalked, somewhat pear-shaped, 4 c.m. 
king, crowned by the calyx-teeth, 2 celled, many-seeded. Found occasionally throughout the Province. For illustration see Forest Flora of Cape Colony, p. 235, 
Plate LXXXII. Occurs also in Cape Colony and Natal. 
O natalensis Sond. Vtn. «ame- 6, Madungnadwaan. Small tree with ovate-lanceolate glabrous leaves 15-20 c.m. long, 7 cm wide i loose axillary cymes ; corolla- 
tuhe , c m. long, slender with spreading lobes, and nearly globose fruit 2-3 c.m. long, 2-celled, many-seeded. Maputa, Gaza and M'Chopes. For illustration see 
“ Natal Plants,” Plate 26. 
O latifolius, Sond. Vern. name- io, Masabelemo. Leaves ovate-cordate, cuspidate, 15-20 c.m. long, 10-12 c.m. wide, with a petiole 1 c.m. long; inflorescence lax; 
corolla-tube 7 c.m. long. The leaves, branches, &c. are described by Sonder as quite glabrous, but I find them pubescent at first, the upper surface of the leaf 
glabrous or glabrescent with age. Maputa, M’Chopes and Magenja da Costa ; an upright shrub 3-6 metres high. 
1 51 GARDENIA. Trees and shrubs, mostly tropical and sub-tropical, with opposite or occasionally whorled leaves and branches, connate stipules, and solitary or occasionally 
5 cymose sub-terminal inflorescence, and large white scented flowers. Calyx tubular above the ovary, 5-lobed or parted, or spathaceous. Coro la salver-shaped 
funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, with a tube longer than wide and 5-10 parted limb, the segments twisted in bud. Stamens as many, almost sessile, inserted in the 
throat of the corolla-tube. Anthers linear, more or less twisted. Style as long as the tube or longer, stigma clavate, 2-fid. Ovary i-celled with several incomplete 
septa. Fruit woody or fleshy, 1 -celled, many-seeded, indehiscent. Seeds large, flat, with horny albumen. A large genus, containing several species which are 
garden favourites. 
G. 
Rothmannia, Linn. Vern. namts-i , Candlewood ; io, Mataba; 14, Aapse-kosl. A tree often 12-15 "res high. 20-40 c.m. diameter, with a straight unbranched 
grey or nearly white trunk, and a sparingly branched crown near the top only. A forest tree, loving a moist spot, and not known outs.de the forest. Leaves almost 
sessile, elliptfca, -acute, entire, glabrous, j-to c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide, distinctly veined, and with pockets at the junctions of the vern, lowers ermmal, sohtary 
sessile, showy and sweetly scented, but usually inaccessible. Calyx r.bbed, hairy within, and with 5 linear segments 2-5 c.m long. Corolla while. ^5-7 
widening upward, and with a spreading 5-fid limb 7 c.m. across. Pistil clavate, longer than the tube, 2-fid at the apex. Fruit 1 -celled, 2 inches long, it 
5-angled, afterwards .cribbed, many-seeded, green ; the flat seeds separated by pith. Rind hardly woody, not edible. Timber very hard and closcgramed, but 
short in the grain. For illustration see ■■ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 234, Plate LXXIX. Occurs in Maputa on the Lebombo kloofs and m M Chopes (extra- 
tropical), as also in Magenja da Costa near Macubella, and in Nhamacurra (tropical). 
G Thunbergia, Linn. Vern. names— i. Wild Katjepiering ; 3, 14, Buffelsbal ; 4. Chiselala and Imbalangwe ; 10, Nepaia and l-tingo; 13, Umkangaza; 15, Vala 
sanguin (Kaffraria) and Um-valasangwaan (Natal). A small much-branched tree 3-5 metres high, with smooth white unarmed stem up to 30 c m. diameter, and 
rigid opposite or ternate branches and branchlets, or sometimes prostrate or mostly subterranean. Leaves very variable, lanceolate on seedlings for he first 
few years, afterwards ovate, obovate, or widely elliptical, tapering to the base, rounded or acute, entire or with one or more irregular lobes or tee h, glabrous, 
veined, and bearded in the axils of the veins. Leaves opposite or 3 together, shortly-petioled. Howers terminal, solitary, strongly scented, usually 8-merous, 
large, white and attractive. Calyx green, foliaceous, 4-5 c.m. long, cleft on 1 side, and with 5-10 shortly-stalked, unequal, leaf-1, ke lobes Corolla salver- 
shaped, 8-lobed, the tube 8-10 c.m. long, 1 c.m. diameter, the limb 710 c.m. across, pure white and regular. Stamens about 8 exserted, twisted, stigma 
exserted, 2-lobed. Fruit woody, very hard, oval or oblong, 5-10 c.m. long, 5 c.m. diameter, many-seeded, crowned by the large calyx-scar and with about 5 
(or sometimes up to 10) imperfect dissepiments. The fruits remain on the trees for several years, increasing in size and finally are either smooth or 
rugose, but usually white. An exceedingly variable species, possibly including several species, though I have not noticed what I should consider specific 
differences either in Cape Colony, Natal, or this Province, in all of which it is widely distributed, but nowhere plentiful In the Journal of the Linn. Soc., 
Botany, Vol. XXXVIII., No. 268, Feb. ,909, Dr. Otto Stapf and Mr. J. Hutchinson give a monograph of the forms included in the group which has hitherto 
passed as this 1 species; they make it into 15 species and say finality has not yet been reached. About half of these species are recorded from this Province but 
the monograph arrived too late to allow me to use it on the fresh plants, consequently no attempt is made to divide this species here. 1 he forms mentioned as 
