484 OLEACEH (Harvey). [ Menodora. 
splitting across, sometimes irregularly ; cells 4-seeded, or by abortion 
fewer. DC. Prodr. viii. 316. Bolivaria, Cham. & Schlecht. in 
Linnea, i. 207, t. 4, fig. 1. 
Undershrubs, chiefly of the American continent, where they are found from 
Mexico to Patagonia. Habit and foliage very variable. 
Stems erect, nearly naked, rigid; leaves minute, 
linear, distant ... a “ Fee vs ... (1) juncea, 
Stems diffuse, closely leafy : 
Leaves bipinnately multifid ae vee ... (2) africana, 
Leaves entire or tripartite ... METS cee ... (3) heterophylla, 
1. M. juncea (Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 220); stems erect, 
rigid, terete, striate, glabrous, irregularly branched, nearly naked ; 
branches erect; leaves minute, distant, close-pressed, shortly linear, 
acute ; corymbose cymes terminal, several-flowered, minutely puberu- 
lous ; calyces semi-5-fid, the lobes subulate, entire ; capsule irregu- 
larly torn across. 
WesTeRN Recion: Little Namaqualand; Modderfontein, Whitehead! and 
without precise locality, Zeyher ! 
Stems pale green, 2-3 ft. high, naked, except for the minute and distant, 
scarcely obvious leaves. Inflorescence panicled, terminal, its branches minutely 
puberulous, Calyx-lobes 23 lin. long, rather longer than the tube. 
2. M. africana (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 586); root simple; stems 
diffuse, many from the crown, branched, closely leafy throughout; 
leaves alternate, short, bipinnately multifid, glabrous; lobes narrow- 
linear, nerved beneath, acute; flowers terminal, solitary; calyx- 
limb multipartite, with filiform or pinnatifid lobes. 
KALawARI ReGIon: Griqualand West; Dutoits Pan, Tuck! Barkly, Nelson, 
175! on Flats, Mrs, Barber, 2! Orange River Colony ; Great Vet. River, Burke, 
134! Boshof, Mrs. Barber! Bechuanaland; near Kuruman, Burchell, 2430! 
near the sources of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2460! 2478! 24185! 2533! 
Transvaal ; near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3104! Derde Poort, Leendertz, 
369! near Irene, Burtt-Davy, 2808! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1132! near L)den- 
burg, Wilms, 1068! Crocodile Valley, near Barberton, Galpin, 1071! near 
Potchefstroom, Nelson, 342! 
Bastern Recion: Natal; by the Tugela River, near Colenso, Wood, 758 ! 
3550! Bushmans River, Gerrard, 631! Zululand, Miss Owen ! 
Root fusiform, deeply descending. Stems 4-12 in. long, diffuse or ascending, 
scaberulous. Leaves scarcely 4 in. long, multifid. Flowers yellow. 
3. M. heterophylla (Moric. ex DC. Prodr. viii. 316); a small 
shrub, 4—5 in. high, branched from the base ; stems ribbed, sparingly 
papillose-scabrid; leaves alternate, entire or tripartite, shortly and 
broadly petiolate or subsessile ; lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, the central longest and often trifid; calyx 10-fid or 10- 
partite; lobes linear, scaberulous; corolla-lobes obovate-oblong or 
-elliptic, obtuse, sometimes shortly apiculate. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. 
PI, xv. 47, t. 1459. 
Katanart Recon: Transvaal; Matebe Valley. Holub! Woodstock, near 
Rustenburg, Miss Pegler, 950! 
Also in North America, 
