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290 ROSACEE (Harv.) [Agrimonia. 
Racemes dense, cylindrical, terminating short leafy ramuli ; bracts membranous, 
- oblong, blunt, under each pedicel, and two bracteoles at the base of _the calyx tube. 
Calyx densely silky, its five inner lobes petaloid at base within. Petals greenish 
yellow, shorter than the inner calyx-lobes, glabrous, narrow, obovate. Stamens 
shorter 
than the petals, 
V. AGRIMONIA, L. 
Calyx naked at base, the tube turbinate, armed beneath the limb 
with many hooked bristles, constricted in the throat with an annular 
ring ; limb 5-parted, with subimbricate estivation, persistent, at length 
connivent. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens 12-20 inserted on the an- 
nular disc. Carpels 2, uniovulate, enclosed in the calyx-tube ; styles 
terminal, exserted; stigmas dilated. Achenia one or two, enclosed in 
the hardened and densely hook-bristled calyx-tube. Endl. Gen. 6368. 
DC. Prod. 2, p. 587. 
Perennial herbs, natives chiefly of the north temperate zones. Leaves alternate, 
imparipinnate. Stipules large, adnate. Flowers in terminal spicate racemes, small, 
yellow. Pedicels bracteate at base, bibracteolate in the middle. Name, a corruption 
of Argemone, an ancient name for some such plant. English name Agrimony. 
1, A. Eupatoria (L.) ; var. Capensis (Harv.) ; stem and petioles softly 
hirsute ; leaves interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets 7-9, ovate-oblong, with 
minute ones between, coarsely toothed, tomentose-pubescent beneath ; 
stipules with a few coarse teeth at base, broadly semi-cordate, acumi-. 
nate; bracts equalling or exceeding the flower, the lower often leafy ; 
flowers subsessile; petals twice as long as the calyx-limb. 4. Eupatoria, 
EL. & Z.! 1712 and A. repens, E.& Z.! 1713. A. bracteosa, E. Mey! in 
Herb. Drege. A. Nepalensis, Don. 
Has, Near Balfour and Philipstown, Kat River, and on the slopes of Winterberg, 
E£.§Z./ Between Keiskamma and Buffel River, and on the Wit-Bergen, Drege! 
Wittedrift, Plettenberg Bay, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Stems 2-3 feet high, robust, angular, densely hairy. Leaves 6-8 inches long ; 
leaflets 2-24 inches long, 1-13 inch broad, passing from oval to lanceolate. Sti- 
pules either quite entire, or variously toothed. £#. ¢ Z’s1 712, is a weakly grown, 
1713, @ strong-growing state (from nearly the same locality) of what appears to me 
a mere local variety of A. Europea, a species found in Europe, Asia, and North 
America, in all which countries it varies in size, pubescence, &c. 
VI. ACAENA, Vahl. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyz-tube oblong, echinate or smooth, compressed, 
3-4-5-angled, the angles armed with hooked bristles, constricted in the 
throat ; limb 4, rarely 3—5-parted, persistent. Petals none. Stamens 
2-5, inserted on the throat of the calyx. Carpels 1-2, enclosed in the 
calyx-tube, uniovulate ; Styles terminal, short ; stigma pencilled. 
Achenia hidden in the hardened, hook-bristled calyx-tube. Endl. Gen. 
6372. DC. Prod. 2, 592. Ancistrum, Forst. : 
Herbs or suffrutices, frequent in the tem cold regions of the southern 
hemisphere, rare in central America, beset teiettintna oes. the segments 
incised. Stipules adnate. Flowers small, green, in terminal or axillary spikes or 
fascicles. Name axawa, a thorn ; from the prickles on the calyx, 
. ee ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
vs. rosulate ; flowers laxly spiked ; calyx-bristles numero latebrosa. 
Leaves scattered ; flowers in sloboss beth ee eee i eek 
