Ckome.] ix. cappariuace^e (oliver). 79 



glandular-puberulous with or without scattered short aculei often present at 

 the base of the petioles. Leaves 5-foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late, shortly petiolulate, acuminate, at first hispidulo-pnbcscent or setulose, 

 especially on the midrib and veins. Racemes with numerous elliptical or 

 oval acute sessile or shortly petiolate bracts. Flowers pink. Sepals linear- 

 lanceolate. Stamens about 6, much exserted (inserted within a fleshy disk 

 in one specimen). Capsule linear-oval, on patent pedicels 1|-2| in. long, 3-4 

 lines broad, on long stipes of 1-1 1 in., glabrous, finely striate when dry; 

 stigma capitate sessile or subsessile. Seeds globose-reniform, smooth or 

 nearly so. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, W. ft Thomson ! 



(■ Congo, Smith, a very bad specimen.) 

 , c - s P>"osa is an American species. I have had imperfect material for determination and 

 W u Can P^ ailt mav prove a distinct species, though certainly nearly allied to some New 



°rld forms of confused synonymy. It is near to C. micrcuitha, Desv. 



12. C. Iberidella Welw. mss. An erect, minutelv and thinly glandu- 

 ar-setulose herb, branched below, |-1| ft. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets 

 "near, scarcely acute or mucronulate, with the petioles, which they usually 

 exceed, sparsely setulose or glabrescent. Erect flowering branches with 

 ! er y numerous or almost crowded, minute, sessile, 3-foliolate or simple 

 bracts. Pedicels patent, capillary, i~i in., glandular-puberulent. Sepals 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Petals nearly equal, linear, narrowed below, 

 stamens 6, all fertile. Capsule linear, decurved, about 1 in. long, finely 

 st »ate, with a slender, subulate, persistent style, and stipes of about 2 lines. 

 eeds transversely tuberculate-rugose. 



Lower Guinea. Angola; Pungo-Audongo, abundant in sandy and stony places hy 

 "* Cuan z». Dr. Welwitsch! 



ls - C. didyxiama, Ilochst. in Schimp. PL Jbyss. An erect, branched, 

 Frtect y glabrous, glaucescent herb, probably attaining 2 or 3 ft. Leaves 

 °-7-toliolate, petiolate; leaflets very narrow-linear. Racemes lax; bracts 

 J e ry narrow-linear, 3-foliolate or simple. Pedicels capillary, at length about 

 J lu - long. Sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Anther-bearing stamens 

 •J staminodia 4. Capsule narrow-linear, spreading or pendulous, about 3 

 "• l0 .ng, shortly stipitate, glabrous, with longitudinal, anastomosing veins 

 a P e nng into the slender style. Seeds globose-reniform, minutely pitted, 

 ST? or quite glabrous.— Dianthera abyssinica, Schweinf. PL ^thiop. 70 

 \ tx - descr.). 



Wi L n nd - Ab yssinia, Schimper ! , nn . . ._ 



ea «y allied to a Cape Cteome, the Tetrateleia maculata of Sonder, Fl. Capensis, l. 08. 



or ]l' ? ,dian dra, Bnrch. Trav.i. 548. An erect, simple or branched, glabrous 

 ihinly glandular or minutely aculeolate, glaucescent or glaucous herb, some- 

 «* woody below. Leaves 5-7-3-foliolate, with very narrow linear leaflets, 

 tetd? laXt Bracts 3-1-foliolate. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Two longer 

 J JJ ob °vate or oblanceolate, clawed. Anther-bearing stamens 2; staminodia 

 BPn.ii - v sti P'tate. Stigma capitate. Capsule narrow-linear, patent or 



r^ulous, glabrous, rather finely striate, 2-3 in. long, on stipes ol .about . ? 

 m*rl pitted > short 'y hmxi—Polanmadiantbera, W &«» ^ 242. Di- 

 *** **rcheUiana and D. Peter nana, Kl. in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 160. 



