Isotype of Kraussia pavettoidesHarv. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Tarenna pavettoides(Harv.) Sim [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Tarenna pavettoides
Kraussia pavettoides
Flora
Entry for KRAUSSIA pavettoides Harv. [family RUBIACEAE]
twigs dark-colored, bluntly 4-angled; leaves obovate-oblong, acuminate, tapering at base into a petiole; cymes terminal and axillary, peduncled, trichotomous; pedicels spreading, puberulous as well as the calyx; calyx-lobes obtuse; anthers subsessile; style hoary in the middle, twice as long as the club-shaped, bidentate stigma. A tree or large shrub, 10–20 feet high, with the habit of a Pavetta. Leaves 4–5 inches long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches broad, of thin substance, turning very dark in drying, narrow cuneate at base, and passing into a 1/2– 3/4 inch long petiole, distantly penninerved and netted beneath; the midrib puberulous. Cymes mostly sub-terminal, from the axils of smaller leaves. Peduncles uncial; pedicels much-branched, corymbose. Stipules cuspidate. Tube of corolla 3/4 as long as the limb. Throat minutely, but closely pubescent within: by which character this differs from the other species.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Ravines on Field-Hill, Natal, J. Sanderson, 656. (Herb. D., Sd.)