Refugium Dotanicum. | [| November, 1871, 
TAB. 300. 
Natural Order APocyNACE®. 
Tribe CARISSE. 
Genus Carissa, Linn. 
C. eranpretora (4. D.C. Prodr. viii. 885). Arbuscula erecta glabra 
copiose dichotomiter ramosa spinis duris dichotomiter furecatis 
magnis armata, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongo-rotundatis 
obtusis mucronatis integerrimis rigide coriaceis, utrinque viri- 
dibus, floribus terminalibus solitariis vel parce corymbosis 
breviter pedicellatis, calycis lobis lanceolatis tubo longioribus, 
corolle tubo calyce duplo superante, limbi lobis horizontaliter 
patulis latis obtusis, baccis ovoideis violaceis.—Arduina grandi- 
flora, H. Meyer, Comm. p. 190. 
A native of Natal, gathered by Drege, Gerrard, and others. 
A dichotomously-branched erect low shrub, glabrous in all its 
parts, copiously armed with curious large dichotomously forked 
sharp woody spines. Leaves shortly petiolate, roundish or broad- 
oblong, quite entire, rigidly coriaceous, an inch and a half to two 
inches long, bluntish with a minute mucro, broadly rounded or 
even slightly cordate at the base, green on both sides, all the 
lateral veins immersed. lowers fragrant, pure white, solitary or 
in sparse corymbs on very short pedicels. Calyx one-fourth of an 
inch deep, the lanceolate lobes exceeding the tube. Corolla-tube 
greenish, twice as long as the calyx; limb spreading horizontally 
when the flower is fully expanded, fifteen to eighteen - lines 
across; the lobes oblique, broad-oblong, blunt. Fruit an ovoid 
violet-coloured many-seeded berry. 
Tas. 800.—1, flower viewed from below; 2, flower viewed laterally ; 
8, corolla opened out; 4, pistil: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
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A dwarf somewhat showy shrub, reared from seed sent from 
Natal by Mr. Thos. Cooper. Like most plants from the same 
locality, it requires a warm dry greenhouse in winter, but will 
bear the open air well in summer. The plant thrives when | 
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grown in a mixture of loam and peat.—W. W. S. 
