subrotunde, dein transverse, subrotundo-ovales, transversim pauloque infe- 
rius dehiscentes, labio superiori recto verticali, inferiori undulato quadrilobo 
ciliato. Vertex lanugine alba cinctus. Staminum breviorum anthere con- 
formes et dimidio duplove minores. Stylus longitudine staminum, glaber, 
apice incurvus. Stigma verticaliter bilobum. Capsula calyce tunc com- 
presso rigiduloque transversa, apice truncata et subretusa, longitudinaliter 
rugoso-venosa, inferius crassior rigidiorque, nigrescens. Semina inferiori 
parte receptaculi conferta, subtrigona, obtusa, punctato-aspera migra. 
Funiculus in strophiolam brevem cyathiformam trilobam abit. Albumen 
tenue, carnosum. Embryo axilis, rectus ; radicula subcylindrica ; cotyle- 
donibus ovatis.—Vix dubium est, quin Thunbergius sub Ruellie depressa 
nomine hanc speciem intellexerit, scil. calycibus solis nec corollis repertis 
nee multum, uti sepe illi accidit, inquirens, flores minutos dixit in descrip- 
tione. Linnaus corolle non meminit.—Lehm. in litt. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence its seeds 
were brought to Europe by Mr. Ecklon, the celebrated bota- 
nical collector, and communicated to Dr. Lehmann of Ham- 
burgh, under whose care it was raised. To that gentleman 
I am indebted for the accompanying drawing and descrip- 
tion. It is altogether contrary to my practice to publish 
accounts of plants that have hitherto only been in foreign 
gardens; but the beauty of this species, the evident fidelity 
of the drawing, the specimen that accompanied it, and - 
the vicinity of Hamburgh to our own shores, have induced 
me to deviate from the rule; without however intending 
that this should be at all drawn into a precedent. 
The species is a greenhouse undershrub; it was found 
by Ecklon in the Karroo, near Hermanskraal, on the Great 
Fish River, flowering from October to December: Burchell 
met with it on the Roggeveld; and Drége on the Sneeuw and 
Rhinoster mountains and Zwartruggers. To Mr. Bentham 
Lam indebted for the following observations upon the genus 
and some of its affinities, 
The genus Aptosimum was considered by Mr. Burchell 
as allied to Capraria, that is, to the Cape species now form- 
ing the genus Freylinia ; but the declinate stamina and the 
conformation of the anthers are very different from that of 
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