The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 4Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller)
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The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 4
Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller)
Plants -- South Africa -- Periodicals; Plants -- South Africa -- Pictorial works -- Periodicals
ON Plate 92 we figured a member of the family _Bruniaceae, Brunia
Stokoei_, which differs from the genus _Pseudobaeckia_ in having the
sepals united beyond the ovary and the stamens shorter than the petals.
The species of _Pseudobaeckia_ were formerly placed under the genus
_Brunia_, until a separate genus was constituted for them in 1891.
The species figured is not a particularly striking one, but it is worthy
of illustration, as it belongs to a group only found in the
south-western area of the Cape Province.
The specimens from which our plate was prepared were collected by Mr. T.
P. Stokoe on the Hottentot Hollands Mountains, where it is found growing
in very damp places near Kogelberg. It also occurs in the mountains of
Swellendam. We are indebted to the Director of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, for comparing the plant with the material in the Kew
Herbarium.
DESCRIPTION:--_Branches_ slender, arranged in a racemose manner above,
yellowish, the young branches densely woolly, at length becoming
glabrous. _Leaves_ adpressed, somewhat distant below, becoming more
crowded above, 3·5 to 6 mm. long, 1·5 mm. broad, lanceolate, with a long
black mucro at the apex, convex and glabrous beneath, concave and woolly
above. _Flowers_ sessile, solitary in the uppermost leaves of the
ultimate branchlets. _Bracts_ two, 1 mm. long, ·25 mm. broad, linear,
convex beneath, concave above, obtuse, glabrous. _Sepals_ 1·25 mm. long,
·5 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. _Petals_ 1 mm. long, slightly
over ·5 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse. _Filaments_ ·5 mm. long, linear;
anthers less than ·25 mm. long. _Ovary_ 2-celled, with a single red
pendulous ovule in each cell, sometimes only one ovule present; style ·5
mm. long, bifid at the apex (_National Herb. Pretoria_, No. 2578).
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PLATE 150.--Fig. 1, tip of branch enlarged, showing flowers; Fig.
2, portion of branch enlarged; Fig. 3, single leaf showing under
surface; Fig. 4, longitudinal section through a flower; Fig. 5, a
single flower; Fig. 6, stamen; Fig. 7, bracteole; Fig. 8, bract.
F.P.S.A., 1924.
[Illustration: _151._]
PLATE 151.
ALOE SCHLECHTERI.
_Cape Province, Namaqualand._
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LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
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=Aloe Schlechteri=, _Schonl. in Records Albany Mus._ vol. i. p. 45.
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This somewhat rare _Aloe_ was first described by Dr. Schönland from
material collected by Max Schlechter at Pella, S.W. Africa. The Division
of Botany in 1921 received living specimens from Dr. W. Borchards of
Upington, and these subsequently flowered at Pretoria.
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