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Chironia baccifera

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Chironia baccifera L. [family GENTIANACEAE ]
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Entry for CHIRONIA baccifera Linn. [family GENTIANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 1056, (1909) Author: By A. W. HILLand D. PRAIN.
Names
CHIRONIA baccifera Linn. [family GENTIANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 190;—Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 273; Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. 736; Gærtn. f. Fruct. ii. 156, t. 114, fig. 3; Thunb. Prodr. 35, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 253 and Flor. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 107; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1070; Pers. Syn. i. 282; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 233; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 7; R. Br. Prodr. 451; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 203; Burch. Trav. i. 15, 31, 59; Cham. in Linnæa, vi. 345; E. Meyer, Comm. 180; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 105 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 41; Gilg in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 65 and in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 78; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 188, t. 16, fig. 1.
CHIRONIA baccifera E. Meyer var. elongata [family GENTIANACEAE], Comm. 180.
CHIRONIA parviflora Salisb. [family GENTIANACEAE], Prodr. 136.
CHIRONIA baccata Hoffmg. [family GENTIANACEAE], Verz. Pflanz. Nachtr. 211.
Rœslinia tetragona Moench [family ], Meth. Suppl. 212.
Roslinia baccifera G. Don [family ], Gen. Syst. iv. 203.
Information
stem distinctly angled, leafy, much-branched, 1/2–3 ft. long; branches divaricate; leaves linear, acute, 1/2– 3/4 in. or (elongata form) 1 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. wide; flowers solitary or 2–3, terminal, with peduncles 1/4– 3/4 or (elongata form) 1–1 1/4 in. long; calyx 2 1/2 lin. long, divided three-fourths; lobes ovate, subacute or acute; corolla-tube cylindric, rather longer than calyx; limb narrow; lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; anthers straight; ovary subglobose, 2 lin. long; fruit baccate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aberdeen Div.; Camdeboo Berg, 4000–5000 ft. (elongata form), Drège!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Belle Fontein, Lange Valley, Wallich! Malmesbury Div.; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 989! 1808! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Tulbagh Waterfall, Ludwig! Mitchells Pass, between Tulbagh and Ceres, Wyley! Worcester Div.; Hex River Valley, 1600 ft., Tyson, 759! near Worcester, Rehmann, 2492! Paarl Div.; Paarl, Prior! Cape Div.; various localities, Sparrman! Thunberg! Osbeck! Sonnerat! Wahlberg! Spielhaus! Grondahl! Gaudichaud! Bergius! Lalande! Burchell, 241! 774! Bojer! Ecklon, 31! 79! 650! 652! Scholl! Verreaux, 637! Lehmann! Jameson! Jelinek, 18! Prior! Milne, 182! Bunbury! Rehmann, 760! 1974! Wright! Mrs. Elliott, 54! 93! Penther, 2012! Wilms, 471! 3471! Kuntze! Bolus, 3378! Wolley Dod, 681! Schlechter, 16! Brown! Barnard Fuller! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Verreaux! Riversdale Div.; without precise locality, Rust, 435! Oudtshoorn Div.; Cango, 2100 ft., Bolus, 12158! Mossel Bay Div.; Mossel Bay, Fraser! Great Brak River, Schlechter, 5755! Knysna Div.; Vlugt Valley, Bolus, 2395! Keurboom River, Penther, 2015! Knysna, Miss Newdegate! and without precise locality, Castelnau, 582! Uitenhage Div.; Loeri River, Penther, 2025! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb. 217! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, 50 ft., Galpin, 286! Albany Div.; Grahamstown Flats, Scott-Elliot, 854! Var. β: Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, Drège! Zeyher, 252! Ecklon, 651! Port Elizabeth Div.; Algoa Bay, Prior! near Port Elizabeth, Mrs. Holland, 47! Miss West, 31! Var. γ: Clanwilliam Div.; Alexanders Kloof, Wallich! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Drège! Worcester Div.; Bains Kloof, Wawra, 56! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège, 1895! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Osbeck! Thunberg! Banks! Wallich! Krauss! Rehmann, 1975! Ecklon! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 620! Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 680! Riversdale Div.; Gouritz River, Penther, 2013! and without precise locality, Rust, 261! George Div.; Montague Pass, 1000 ft., Marloth, 2799! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Zeyher! Bathurst Div.; mouth of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3739! Port Alfred, Haagner, 74! Albany Div.; Assegai Bush, Baur, 1028! Fish River Heights, Hutton! Var. δ: East London Div.; East London, Kuntze! Komgha Div.; sea-shore near mouth of Kei River, Flanagan, 1146!EASTERN REGION Var. γ: Transkei; near Gekau (Geua) River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Var. δ: Kaffraria; near coast, Drège, 4925! Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 373! Pondoland; without precise locality, Bachmann, 450! Natal; near Durban, Gerrard, 529! 698! Grant! Sanderson, 2010! Wood, 54! 857! 6371!SOUTH AFRICA without locality; Oldenland! Oldenburg! Burmann! Commerson! Banks and Solander! Forster! Masson! Spielhaus! Hunnemann (Herb. Willdenow, 4506)! Hesse! Brogniart! Niven, 12! Bowie, 2! Sieber, 187! Ludwig! Harvey! Thom, 285! Pappe! Rehmann, 1970! Elliott! Kay, 3779! and cultivated specimens! Var. β: Thom! Var. γ: Osbeck! Harvey, 607! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
An example of typical C. baccifera in Herb. Delessert collected by Lemue is d as being from near Takoon in Bechuanaland. No other specimen of C. baccifera appears to have been met with in the Kalahari Region; this locality is therefore for the present doubtful. The same remark applies to a specimen of C. baccifera, var. dilatata in Herb. Kew collected by Cooper (2763) and said to be from the Orange River Colony; this is a still more doubtful locality.A rather variable species. Bowie terms it the “Tooth-ache Berry.”

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