New and Interesting Records of South African Flowering Plants.

Frutex multiramosus, 1-2 m., interdum usque ad 3 m., altus. Rami ramulisque teretes, cortice griseo longitudinaliter pauceque rugoso obtecti; ramuli ulteriores subtereti vel subquadrangulares, laeves, puberuli. Folia parva, rigida, tenuiter coriacea, lucida, subtus pallidiora, oblonga, elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, acuta vel acuminata, pungentia, plerumque pauce spinoso-dentata, interdum parce integra, supra tota subtus ad costam puberula, 1-2 cm. longa et 0-6—1 cm. lata; petioli puberuli, 0-3 mm. longi. Inflorescentiae terminales, spicatae, pauciflorae, densae; bracteae bracteolaeque ellipticae, pungentes, integrae vel interdum 1-2 spinas laterales gerentes, dense glanduloso-pubescentes. Calyx extus dense glanduloso-pubescens; sepala 5, inaequalia, pungentia, posterius majus, lineari-oblongum, c. 3 cm. longum, plerumque bicuspidatum; laterales et anteriora lanceolata, longe attenuata, acutissima. Corolla 1-labiata, alba; lobi supra dilutissime violacei, c. 34 mm. longi; tubus brevis, ad apicem contractus, in fauce dense barbatus; limbus cuneato-oblongus, sparse pubescens et intus in lineis longitudinalibus 2 densissime sericeo-villosus, ad apicem 5-lobatis lobis 5 subaequalibus oblongis apice rotundatis leviter deflexis et concavis c. 6 mm. longis. Stamina in fauce inserta, exserta, subaequalia; filamenta arcuata, purpureo-brunnescentia, ad basin pilosa; antherae 1-loculatae, depresse semiorbiculares, lanatae; connectivum ad apicem non productum. Pollen ut in typo, subglobosum. Ovarium cylindrico-fusiforme, glabrum, 4-ovulatum; discus flavus, annuliformis; stylus arcuatus, subulato-filiformis; stigma subnullum minute 2-lobatum. Capsula oblonga vel ellipsoidea, glabra, lignosa, 15-20 mm. longa, 2-4-sperma. Semina subquadrata vel trapezoidea, magis compressa, brunnea, glabra, rugulosa, 5-6 mm. longa.