Pachystigma ZeyheriSond. [family RUBIACEAE], l. c.
Information
leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at the base, quite glabrous, green, with prominent nerves and veins on both sides; cymes axillary, shorter than the leaves, glabrous as well as the flowers; calyx lobes lanceolate; corolla glabrous outside. Shrub with opposite, glabrous branches. Stipules broad, cuspidate, about 2 lines long. Leaves quite entire, coriaceous, 4–5 inches long, 12–14 lines broad, tapering into a petiole 3–6 lines long. Cymes opposite, 2 inches, the primary peduncle 1 inch long; the pedicels bracteolate. Calyx 3 lines long; tube hemisphærical, lobes twice longer. Corolla 4 lines long, with a series of silky hairs in the tube; the throat and lobes glabrous. Ovary 5-celled, by abortion 2–3-celled. Style filiform; stigma truncate at both ends. Drupe (unripe) ellipsoidal, glabrous, crowned with the vestiges of the calyx-lobes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Stony places in woods, Magalisberg. Nov. Zeyher, 766. (Herb. Sd., D.)