304 -RosAcra: (Harv.)  [@rielwm. 
38. C. teretifolia (Thunb. Prod. 93) ; glabrous, virgate ; leaves ses- 
sile, trifoliolate and fascicled ; leaflets semiterete (flattish above, round 
backed), linear, incurved, mucronate ; stipules obsolete, tooth-like ; 
fruits oblong, 6-ribbed and rugulose. Thunb.Cap.p. 433. E.g¢Z.1 1747. 
DC. 1. ¢. C. teretifolia, B. tenuior, E. Mey. 
_ _ Has. Piquetberg, Thunberg! Brackfontein and Olifant’s R., £.¢ Z./ Between 
Krom River and Berg Valley, Drege! (Herb. Sd,, Bth. , D., Hk.) ; 
A tall, virgate, slightly branched shrub, with very erect, simple branches, not 
ramulous. Leaftufts 4-1 inch apart, alternate, Leaflets 4—5 lines long, not 1 line 
in diameter, carnose, nerveless, and veinless, with a short, acute mucro, smooth 
edged. Fruit finely wrinkled between the six smooth ribs. 
89. C. pungens (Presl. Epimel. 202); glabrous, robust, much branched 
and ramulous; leaves tufted, unifoliolate ; leaflets patent or recurved, 
shortly linear, pungent-mucronate, complicate, glabrous and glossy ; sti- 
pules shortly amplexicaul, toothlike. C. teretifolia, E. Mey. ex pte. 
Has. Gnadendal, Mt., 4000-5000 f., Drege’ (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
A much branched twiggy bush, 1-2 feet high, or perhaps more. Leaftufts close. 
All the leaves unifoliolate. Leaflets 2-3 lines long, of thick substance, infolded 
and deeply channelled, squarrose, with a long sharp point. This differs from C. tere- 
tifolia in habit, in the unifoliolate leaves and infolded leaflets, and longer mucro, &c. 
Fruit smooth and glossy. 
yo Cffabdlitgtin, Ve psy 
. X. GRIELUM, Linn. 
Calyx-tube short, at length concrete with the ovary ; limb 5—lobed, 
the segments nearly valvate in estivation. Petals 5, inserted in the 
throat of the calyx, alternate with the segments, large, obovate, convo- 
lute. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals. Carpels 5—10, in the base 
of the calyx, concreting with the tube of the calyx and with each other, 
uniovulate ; styles 5—10, filiform, short; stigma capitate. Capsule de- 
- pressed, 5-10 celled, the cells at length opening in the axis, one-seeded. 
Endl. Gen. 6402. DC. Prod. 2, p. 549. 
South African herbs or scarcely suffruticose plants, growing in sandy places, and 
in salt ground. Leaves alternate, hoary, pinnately decompound. Peduncles axil- 
lary, t—-flowered. Flowers large, yellow. Name pts, old ; because the leaves are 
Sue oles ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Leaves a. 0.4 si ms : m ‘ 
mo os 
Leaves soft, pinnatifid ; the broadish lobes obtuse : 
‘Stem and upper sides of leaves laxly woolly ; sepals ovate, 
Whole plant very woolly ; sepals proadly deltoid, obtuse or 
(1) tenuifolium. 
2) humifusum. 
(3) obtusifolium. 
_1. G. tenuifolium (Linn. Gen. 578); leaves bipinnately multifid ; 
pinne 2-3, alternate, cut into 3 or more narrow-linear, callows-mucro- 
nate segments, cobwebby above, cano-tomentose with reflexed edges 
beneath ; calyx-segments lanceolate-acuminate, at first cobwebby, then 
glabrous. DC. 1. ¢. 549. Sw. Ger. t.171. Burm. Afr. t. 53. Th. Fl. Cap. 
509. #.§Z.! No.455. E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. a 
Var. 8. patens; leaf. broader, more rigid, patent or divaricate. G. hu- 
su 
mifusum, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege, non Thunb. 
