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gether, flat, imbricating, orbicular, prominently and flabellately many- 
cordate, mucronulate. Thunb. / Cap. 437: De. he. 596. E. § 2.1 1734.0 lk We 
a, obliqua, Spreng. DOLE: 
out, sat Ba shortly and broadly obovate, obtuse, the lateral ones 
Cliffortia. | -ROSACEE (Harv.) 297 
row-cuneate, truncate, coarsely 3-5 toothed at the apex, veiny, DC. 
Ll. c. 595. E.&éZ! 1728, 
Has. Klapmuts, Stell., Z. $2. / Dutoitskloof and Gnadendal, Drege! (Herb. 
Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) : 
A robust, c branched, eats, densely leafy shrub, 3-6 feet high. Leaves 
sessile, erect, 1-13 inch long, a line wide at base, gradually widening to the abruptly 
toothed summit, which is 3-4 lines wide ; the veins obvious. Stipules very small, 
toothlike. Fruit calyces ribbed. 
IIL. BIFOLIOLE. (Sp. 12-13.) 
12. C. crenata (Linn. f. Suppl. 430); leaflets in pairs, close-pressed 
together, flat, imbricating, orbicular-reniform, immersedly 5-7 nerved 
and netted-veined, spinuloso-denticulate. Thunb. Fl. Cap.p.437. DC. 
lic. p. 596. E. § Za! 1729. Harv. Thes. t. 95. 
Has. Mountains near Hex River, Thunberg! Drege! Kochmanskloof, 2. ¢ Z./ 
South side of Genadendal mountain, Dr. Roser/ (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
A shrub, 3-4 feet high, not much branched ; branches 1-2 feet long, ’ undivided, 
imbricated with distichous, bifoliolate leaves. Leaflets 9-1 inch broad, glabrous 
and somewhat glaucous, with a cartilaginous, scabrously denticulate margin. 
pals ovate, reticulate. 
13. C. pulchella (Linn. f. Suppl. 430) ; leafl. in pairs, close-pressed 'to- 
nerved, minutely scaberulous at the margin, Thunb. Cap.p. 437. DC. l.c, 
Has. Hartequaskloof, near Safrankraal, Thunberg! 8. Africa, Burman! Forsyth! 
(Herb. Bth., Sd.) 
A small, ‘tauch branched shrub, 2 feet high, nearly allied to C. crenata, but with 
smaller, more strongly and closely nerved, and entire (though rough) leaflets. 
Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 4~§ lines wide, drying fulvous, veined like = of | 
an Adiantum. The most elegant of the = and one of the rarest. 
IV. TRIFOLIOLE. (Sp. 14-39.) 
14. C. obcordata (Linn. f. Suppl. 429); leaves trifoliolate 5 “leaflets 
glabrous, flat, with immersed veins, scaberulous at the margin, "the late- 
ral ones obovate-oblong, roundish or reniform, the medial deeply ob- 
Han. Common in the Cape District. (Herb. Th., Hk, Bth. D., Sd.) Hed Ratt 
A much branched and ramulous shrub, 2-4 feet high. Leaves scattered or 
crowded ; leaflets $-4 inch long and broad. The terminal leafiet is pretty constant. Gums Bag 
in form, but varies much in es vei a. when the lateral are smallest, and ‘Look 
much depauperated when these are large. latter vary in form as well as size, erase, 
passing from narrow-obovate to broadly reniform, thus becoming almost like those 
of @. crenata! It is worthy of remark that, in such leaves the edge is rougher than 
in the normal form. I presume they are what Sprengel describes as C. obliqua. 
pears es toothlike, or obsolete. — 
'. Mey. '); ‘glabrous, slender, ramulous; leaves trifo-_ 
; leaflets one-nerved beneath, veinless, flat, glauces-— 
oblique, the medial equal-sided, mucronulate ; stipules obsolete. 
Has. Gnadendal, Drege! (Herb, Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) ‘a 
A small, divaricately branched or flexuous and twiggy bush, glabrous in all 
Leaves tufted at short intervals ; the outermost at least 3-leaved. — - Leaflets 
lines long, 1-14 wide, quite even above, immersedly Pein e 
