Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria (Herb. Nos. 1422, 1491).
Description:—Branches with light to dark brown bark, peeling off in membranous strips, not pustulate. Leaves 1·5-3·8 cm. long, ·5-1·7 cm. broad, lanceolate, obovate, elliptic, or oblanceolate (mostly oblanceolate), obtuse at the apex, cuneate or more rarely rounded at the base, with serrated margins and with the mid-rib distinct and the lateral veins evident. Flowers solitary, very rarely paired, arising at the apex of abbreviated shoots. Pedicels 1-1·5 cm. long, articulated at or 1-2 mm. above the base. Sepals 7-8 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, ovate or elliptic, rounded at and sometimes 2-8-lobed at the apex, enlarging in the fruit. Petals 1·5 cm. long, 9·5 mm. broad, obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base into a claw. Filaments 4·5 mm. long, articulated at the apex; anthers 2 mm. long, oblong. Ovary of 4-6 carpels; style 5 mm. long; stigmas as many as the carpels. Fruit 7-8 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, more or less ellipsoid.
Plate 70.—Fig. 1, fruiting branch; Fig. 2, flower with petals removed; Fig. 3, sepal; Fig. 4, petal; Figs. 5 and 6, stamens; Fig. 7, gynaecium.
F.P.S.A., 1922.
