Cliffortia.] ROSACEE (Harv.) . 301 
A small, flexuous bush, 1-14 foot high, glabrous, except on the twigs and young 
branches. Leaves tufted; all on evident, channelled, unwinged petioles 2-4 lines 
long, with small membranous stipules at their base. Leaflets 2—6 lines long, not a 
line wide, the longer ones strongly falcate, especially when dry ; the margins thick- 
ened and refiexed. Colour a dull green, inclining to rusty. 
_ 98. C. drepanoides (E. & Z.! 1741); flexuous, with puberulous twigs ; 
leaves subsessile or very shortly petioled, tascicled, 3—foliolate ; leaflets 
faintly one-nerved beneath, flat, glabrous, linear, attenuate at base, mu- 
eronate, subfalcate, nearly equal or the medial smaller ; stipules deltoid, , 
_ pristle-pointed. C. falcata, Spreng. in Herb. Zey. 81. Zey.! 2458. 
Has. Winterhoeksberg, Uit., FE. & Z.! Koega River, Zeyher! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) . 
Not much branched, 8-12 inches long, leafy. Leaflets 10-12 lines long, 11% 
broad, perfectly flat on both sides, the longest more or less curved, all squarrose. 
This has much longer, broader, and flatter leaves than C. faicata, shorter or obsolete 
petioles, and broader and more rigid stipules. 
29. C. serpyllifolia (Ch. & Schl. in Linn. 2, p. 34); twigs tomentose 
or pubescent ; leaves fascicled, sessile ; leaflets glabrous, subacute or 
obtuse, cuneato-spathulate or obovate, fiat, midribbed beneath, the 
broader ones also penninerved ; stipules setaceous. 
Van. a. penninervis; leaflets broadly obovate, attenuate at base, entire or sub- 
tridentate, pale and penninerved beneath ; twigs thinly downy. (@. propingua, 
E. § Z.1 1736, and O. serpyllifolia, B. E.G 4.! Drege, 6817, 6818. 
Var. §. Chamissonis ; leaflets cuneato-spa te or linear-cun flat or flattish, 
faintly penninerved or nearly nerveless beneath, 3-6 lines long ; twigs tomentose. 
C. serpyll. a. E.§ Z.! Drege, 6819, 6820. C. complanata, E. Mey. 
Van. y. polyphylla; leaflets small, very blunt, obovate or cuneate-linear, with 
slightly revolute margins, midribbed beneath, usually veinless, sometimes obscurely 
veined. (. polyphylla, E. § Z./ 1738, also C. serpyll. vary BG Z| 
Has. Alpine and subalpine situations in the scrub. a. Cederberge, Clanw., and 
Puspas Valley, Swell., £.GZ./ B. Zwarteberg, Caledon, EF. § Z.! Dutoitskloof, 
Drege! y. Wagenmacher’s Valley, Mundt! Moll River, Grahamstown, £. g Z.! 
(Herb. Sd., Bth., D., Hk.) : seers. 
Vars. B. and y. are erect, much branched, densely leafy bushes, 2-3 feet high ; a. 
is smaller, more diffuse, or flexuous, and more glabrous, Typical specimens of the 
three look quite distinct, but many intermediate stages connect the broadest and 
most nerved leaflets with the narrowest and nerveless. Var. ‘y. in the same locality 
varies with narrow, almost linear, and broad, distinctly obovate leaflets ; some of 
the Grahamstown specimens precisely resemble those of Mundt, from Wagenma- 
cher’s Valley. Leaflets 2-6-7 lines long, 1-3 wide. 
30. C. linearifolia (E. & Z.! 1749); erect, rammulous, with villoso- 
tomentose, at length naked twigs ; ‘leaves trifoliolate and ‘tufted, sub- 
sessile ; leaflets linear, with reflexed margins, one-nerved beneath, 
obtuse, callous-tipped, glabrous ; stipules membranous, amplexicaul, 
toothed, villoso-ciliate. Drege, 5381, 2353, and 6843. 
Has. Zvecilenpe ‘Uit. ; Mountains near Grahamstown and at Klipplaat 
River, near Silo, Caffr. #. & Z./ - Between Strandfontein and Matjesfontein ; and 
at Port Natal, Drege! Dr. Sutherland (Herb. Sd., Hk., D., Bth.) 
row leaved forms resemble C. ericafolia, but differ in the tomentose 
minent’ midrib ; the wider leaved come very near C. serpyllifolia, y. polyphylla 
have less expanded, more decidedly reflexed-edged leaflets. Deeey 
