Entry for DUVALIA transvaalensis Schlechter [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
DUVALIA transvaalensisSchlechter [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 54.
Information
Stems attaining 2 1/2 in. in height, about 5 lin. thick, erect, 6-angular, glabrous; angles with spreading fleshy spines. Cymes few-flowered, arising near the base of the young shoots; pedicels 3/4 in. long, glabrous. Sepals 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, very acute, glabrous. Corolla-lobes 1/2 in. long, erect, ovate-triangular, acuminate, glabrous on both sides. Outer corona disk-like; inner coronal-lobes rhomboidal.
This locality is about ten miles south of the Tropic, but the plant will probably be found in the tropical part also, and is therefore included. I have not seen a specimen.
