et 
y constant varieties, — 
. be found ; but strictly in 
villous or hirsute; stipules withering, 
298 ROSACEE (Harv.) (Cliffortia. 
fruits glabrous, striate, not ribbed, crowned with 3 lanceolate calyx-lobes. With 
broader’and more obovate leaflets than C. marginata, to which it seems allied. It 
may also be compared to a miniature C. obcordata, but wants the strongly obcordate 
medial leaflet. 
16. C. marginata (E. & Z.! 1740); glabrous, slender, diffuse, ramu- 
lous; leaves trifoliolate and fascicled; leaflets nerve-keeled beneath, 
veinless, concave, white-edged, spathulate-oblong, subacute, nearly equal, 
the lateral slightly oblique ; stipules obsolete. 
Has. Shrubby hill sides at Somerset, Hott. Holland, Stell., 2.4 Z./ (Herb. 
Sond., Bth.) 
14-2 feet high, diffuse ; twigs flexuous or zig-zag, 6-8 inches long ; leaf-tufts 
about an inch apart, the outer leaf 3-foliolate. Leaflets 2-3 lines long, 1 line wide, 
channelled or half-complicate, with a variably wide membranous and pellucid mar- 
gin. Fruits glabrous, striate. 
17. C. triloba (Harv.) ; glabrous or puberulous; leaves shortly pe- 
tiolate, trifoliolate ; leaflets shortly and broadly cuneate, truncate, im- 
mersedly veiny, all deeply 3-toothed or lobed, with subreflexed mar- 
gins, pale beneath ; stipules toothlike, spreading. C. dentata, E. d&: Z.! 
1735, non Willd. 
_ Has. Heathy ground on mountain sides near Brackfontein, Clanw., Z. ¢ Z./ 
Aug. (Herb. Bth., Sd., D.) 
" A slender shrub, with flexuous twigs and reddish bark, perfectly glabrous, except 
the young parts, which are thinly clothed with deciduous, microscopic, appressed, 
whitish hairs. The leaflets resemble those of C. trifoliata, but are neither scabrous 
nor rugose, and there is always an evident petiole, prolonged from 1-3 lines beyond 
= maid rigid stipules. Leaves scattered or tufted ; leaflets 4-5 lines long, 3 lines 
e at top. 
18. C. polygonifolia (Linn. Sp. 1470); roughly villous and pilose ; 
leaves sessile, trifoliolate ; leaflets one-nerved, villous or pilose, scaberu- 
lous, piloso-ciliate, ovate or lanceolate, the medial similar to the lateral 
or cuneate and sharply 2-3 fid ; margins subreflexed 3; stipules minute, 
toothlike. Drege, 6826. 
_ Var. a. ternata; leaflets all subequal and uniform, ovate, oval oblong, or lanceo- 
late. c. ternata, Linn. f. Suppl. 430. DC. 1. c. 396. Hort. Cliff. t. 32. Thunb. Cap. 
GAL 1732. Sieb.g1. Drege ! 6840. Zey. 2661. 
trifoliata ; leaflets mostly dissimilar, the medial more or less cuneate, 
i or lobed, the lateral oblong or lanceolate, entire, but sometimes cuneate 
6826, 6822 ? 6825. 
Has. Common throughout the rn distri ieti 
Bih., Sd., Be.) ough: western districts, both varieties. (Herb. D., Hk., 
. cent bua ag tact fog much branched, and densely ramulous, roughly pubes- 
~ An 
c ish h. Leaves crowded, very generally fascicled. Leaflets very 
‘variable in shape, 3-6 long, 4-4 lines wide. Atti atamniniaee large suits of 
‘to keep up the two for msabove indicated, except as 
true to either descriptive phrase may readily 
hick wc 3 termediate forms are common also. Some sr before 
Wie waned wom Daa. for. 0. ternata,” have a few bidentate or 3-dentate medial 
ves ; and other specimens of “ (. trifoliata” vary occasionally with all uniform 
entire leaves. Some again have very broad, some very narrow leaflets, &c. 
19. C. octandra (Ch. & Sch. in Linn, 9, 350) + much branched, diffuse, 
broadly subulate, leaf-like, one- 
specimens, I find it impos: 
