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flowered. Calyx dark olive, petals yellow. Legumes nearly 1} inches long and 
broad, scarcely longer than their breadth, brown. 
5. C. mimosoides (Linn. Sp. 543); suffruticose, erect or diffuse, vari- 
ably pubescent or glabrescent ; leaves 10-40-jugate, with a larger or 
_ smaller petiolar gland below the lowest pair; leaflets very oblique or 
dimidiate, linear-falcate, mucronulate, rigid, obliquely striate beneath ; 
stipules from a semi-cordate base, subulate, striate ; peduncles axillary, 
1~3 together, 1-flowered, longer or shorter; sepals ovate, acute or acu- 
minate, villous, equalling or nearly equalling the petals; legumes linear, 
oblique at base, plano-compressed, with thicker sutures, pubescent or 
glabrescent, 1o—25-seeded. 
Var. a. Capensis; diffuse ; leaflets in 10-35 pairs, with a very minute petiolar 
gland ; peduncles solitary or in pairs, equalling or exceeding the leaf. C. Capensis, 
ag Cap. p. 388. E. & Z.! 1698. E. Mey.! Comm. p. 158, and C. plumosa, E. 
ey. Ll. ¢. 
Var. B. stricta; erect, virgate, subsimple ; leaflets 30-40 pairs, with a large, 
ellipsoid petiolar gland; peduncles 1-3, unequal, much shorter than the leaf. C. 
stricta, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 159. C. angustissima, Lam., and several other, species of 
authors. 
Var. y.? comosa; stem erect, glabrous ; lower leaves 8-jugate, upper 20-30- 
jugate, with a large, oblong, bilabiate petiolar gland ; peduncles subsolitary, supra- 
axillary, scarcely longer than the flower. C. comosa, E. Mey. l. c. p. 160. 
“Has. Moist Sandy places in Uitenhage, Albany, Caffraria, and about Port Natal. 
a. & B.common. y. (which I have not seen) between Omsamwubo and Omsam- 
caba, Drege. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D., &c.) 
A common tropical and subtropical weed, which has received at least a score of 
names in different countries. The pubescence, number of leaflets, size and shape of 
petiolar-gland, length of peduncle, and size of flower, are very variable, but I find 
it impossible strictly to limit the variations, and all the S. African varieties inhabit 
the same districts, and probably often grow intermixed. 
C. Burmanni (DC. Prod. 2, p. 502) ; suberect ? leaflets 7-9-jugate, 
oblong, aristate-mucronate, glabrous, subciliate; petioles with a sessile 
gland above the base; pedicels axillary, tufted, bracteolated ; legume 
glabrous, downy at the sutures. C. flexuosa, Burm. 
. Deless., fide DC.) Unknown to me. 
ery sein gs preserved in dnb. Sonder, is founded on garden 
specimens of (. revoluta, F. Muell., (Hook. Kew Journ. 8, p. 45) an Australian 
species, allied to C. australis and C. Schultesit. 
LXXIY. SCHOTIA, Jacq. 
Calyx tube conical, limb 4-parted ; the segments oval, obtuse, strongly 
imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, in the throat of the calyx, nearly equal. 
Stamens 10, more or less connate at base ; filaments free above, the al- 
_ ternate shorter; anthers ovate, longitudinally slitting. Ovary stipitate, 
~ ovate, several ovuled ; style filiform, elongate ; stigma capitate or simple. 
~ Legume coriaceous, oblong, compressed; the upper margin or both — 
margins winged. Seeds 1-6, either with the hilum naked, or having — 
a large, fleshy, cuplike arillus. Endl. Gen. 6785. DC. Prod.2, 507, 
Small trees or shrubs, natives of South Africa. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets coriace- 
ous, entire. Flowers panicled, crimson or pink, or flesh-coloured, handsome. Name, 
in honour of Richard Van der Schot, a travelling companion and friend of Jacquin’s 
Vou. 1. Ta ee 
