Cliffortia. | ROSACE (Harv.) 303 
tufted, subsessile; leaflets linear-subulate, mucronate, incurved, keeled 
beneath, somewhat channelled above, glabrous or scaberulous ; stipules . _ 
amplexicaul, subulate ; fruits varying from nearly smooth to striate ca 
ribbed, wing-ribbed, tuberculate and muricate!! DC.1.¢. 596. Thunb. Cap. So 
434. EB. & 7.11750. C. laricina, EL. Mey. ! & 6837. g; = ( ss 
Var. a. vulgaris; leaflets 6-9 lines long, smooth or rough-edged ; fruits striate or wade \ NO Cud 
ribbed. C. laricina, a. Von & 6 
Vaz. A. brevifolia; leaflets 3-5 lines long ; branches divaricate; fruits .. . j 
C. junip. B. EB. & Z.! : 
Var. -. pterocarpa; leafl. 4-6 lines long, straight, scaberulous ; fruits with raised, 
rough, sharp ribs. ‘ 
Var. 5. tuberculata; leafl. 4-6 lines long ; fruits tuberculated. 
Var. e. muricata; leafi. 4-6 lines long ; fruits muricated! C. laricina, }., E. Mey. 
and Drege ! 6839. 
Has. Common about Capetown and in the Western Districts. 8. above the source 
of the Kat River, on the Winterberg, Z. § Z./ 8. Witsenberg, Zeyher! ¢. Dutoits- 
kloof and Drakensteenberg, Drege! (Herb, Sd., Hk., Bth., D.) 
A slight growing, diffuse or depressed, densely leafy, much branched bush, 1-2 
feet high. Branches curved ; leaflets close. Leaflets often rusty, sometimes pale 
green, 3-9 or 10 lines long, }—4 line wide, somewhat narrowed at base, and tapering 
to a pungent mucro, The leaflets do not vary much, except in length and smooth- ; q 
ness, but the fruit is remarkably variable. I have ventured to indicate some of the . 
principal forms as varieties, but I fear they are very inconstant ; on the same branch 
the degree of furrowing is variable, and sometimes the ribs have smooth, sometimes 
tuberculated interspaces. Var. ¢. has such distinct looking fruits, that but for 5, I 
should probably have made it a species ! : 
36. C. filifolia (Linn. f. Suppl. 430); robust, diffusely branched, and 
ramulous ; twigs glabrous or puberulous ; leaves trifoliolate and tufted, 
subsessile ; leaflets linear-filiform, subtrigonous, mucronate, incurved, 
keeled beneath, lightly furrowed or flat above, glabrous or seaberulous ; 
stipules amplexicaul, subulate; fruits nearly smooth, striate or ribbed. 
E. § Z.! No. 1751. Thunb.! Cap. p. 434. @. leptophylla, E. § Z.! 1752. 
Zey.! 2717 & 573. Drege, 6838, 6846. 
Var. B. subsetacea (E. & Z.!) ; twigs puberulous ; leaflets short (2-3 lines long), 
pale green, very slender. Drege! 6845. * 
Has. Cape Flats and about Table Mountain ; also about Hauwhoek Pass and 
Caledon, &c. E. § Z./ Breede River, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Very similar to @. juniperina, but usually with glabrous twigs and much more — 
slender, less tapering, more suddenly mucronate, not so channelled or quite flat 
above leaflets. Still puzzlingly intermediate states occur, and I fear the two are not 
sufficiently distinct, I do not see anything to keep (. leptophylla, E. § Z! apart 
from the ordinary state ; the roughness or smoothness of the margin is very incon-— 
stant. Stems 6-12 inches long or more ; leaflets commonly 6-8 lines long, except 
in B, which is smaller in all parts. 
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37. C. baccans (Harv.) ; nearly glabrous, ramulous; leaves trifolio- 
late, tufted ; leaflets shortly linear-semiterete, obtuse, flattish above, 
round-backed, glabrous ; stipules obsolete, toothlike; fruits globo: 
berry-like, very smooth, crowned with the ovate calyx-lobes, Drege, 
ne Hexriviersberg, 3000-4000 f., Hexriv. kloof, 1000-2000., Drege 
_Hk., Bth., Sd. a 
Something ike C. teetifolia in miniature ; but the fruit is remarkab 
of any other species, Judging from the dried specimens, it see 
almost drupaceous. Leaflets 14-2 lines long. Fruit reddish, 
