300 ROSACEE (Harv.) [ Cliffortia. 
Pigs Me ae 2-3000 f. and Drakensteensberg, 4-5000 f. Drege. (Herb. 
-» Bth., D.) 4 a 
Stems 6-12 inches long, filiform, trailing ; the branches long, subsimple, flexudus. 
Pubescence loose, at first copious, but deciduous. Leaves generally 3 or more in 
small tufts, always unifoliolate ; the leaflet 3-4 lines long, 2 lines wide, most com- 
monly with three, but now and then but two strongly recurved, pungent, terminal 
_ teeth. Stipules twice as long as broad, adnate, scarcely amplexicaul. With the 
aspect of C. filicaulis, but seemingly well distinguished by difference in foliage and 
stipulation. : 
24. C. concavifolia (E. & Z.! 1739) ; robust, much branched, ramu- 
lous, ferrugineo-tomentose ; leaves trifoliolate, sessile, scattered ; leaflets 
one-nerved beneath, veinless, concave, thick, silky pubescent on both 
sides, cuneato-spathulate, acute, nearly equal ; stipules obsolete. 
Has. Sides of the Zwarteberg Mountains, Caledon, #. § Z./_ (Herb. Sond.) 
A dwarf, but strong growing bush, a foot or so in height, very densely branched, 
and minutely twiggy, the old twigs warted with leaf-bases : all the twigs thickly 
clothed with rusty tomentum. Leaves sessile : leaflets 2 lines long, scarcely 1 line 
wide, with a thick, prominent midrib, and blunt margins: the upper surface not 
very concave. 
25. C. sericea (E. & Z.! 1746); robust, erect, twiggy, albo-sericeous ; 
leaves on short, membrane-winged petioles, trifoliolate and tufted ; leaf- 
lets one-nerved beneath, veinless, flat above, thick, silky on both sides, 
linear or spathulate, obtuse, callous-tipped, the broader with subrevo- 
lute margins ; stipules adnate, with a setaceo-subulate, excurrent point, 
‘Has. Rocky places near the Tulbagh Waterfall, E.4Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
1}-2 feet high ; all parts silky and silvery. Twigs 4-6 inches long, very erect ; 
the nodes 3~3 inch apart. Stipulated petiole of the outer leaf sheathing at base, 1—2 
lines long ; leaflets 3-4 lines long, }—1 line wide, the margin but little reflexed. Sti- 
pule points persistent, rather rigid. 
26. C. strobilifera (Linn. Syst. 749); robust, glabrous, with virgate 
twigs ; leaves tufted, unifoliolate, the primary often abortive, the sti- 
pules remaining ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, subaristate, one-nerved 
beneath, rough-edged, rigid ; stipules amplexicaul, with subulate points ; 
fruits striate. Thunb.! Cap. p.435. EB. & Z.1 1753. Pluck. Alm. t. 275, 
f2. DC. 1. ¢. 596. Drege, 6833, 6834 
aunt . a ate colony and orb Caftraria to Port Natal. 
_ . A large ge shrub, 6-10 feet high, much branched and twiggy. . The rameal leaves 
« peti either much reduced in size and quickly deciduous, ae ls cain their 
a Cus awl-shaped points. Leaflets clustered! ia-the axils of these stipules 1-14-2 inches 
oh a Gree er . Specific name alludes to conelike galls, composed 
taVe A of broad, imbricated scales, common on the branches and twigs. soi 
Woy 27. C. faleata (Linn. f. Suppl. 431)3 diffuse, ramulons, with tomen- 
< tulose twigs ; leaves shortly petiolate, fascicled, 3-foliolate ; leaflets one- 
__ nerved beneath, flat above, with refleaed margins, glabrous, linear-falcate, 
acute, squarrose, subequal or the medial shorter ; Stipules membranous, 
We bee basal, DC. 1. c. 596. Thunb. Cap. p. 436. Ed Zt 1742. Sted. 
a _Has. Cape Flats and near Simonstown ee fa Sige oe aye ee 
> Brain, Capstove, Pen ca zs Aah Bases of Table and Devil's 
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