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Brachycarpeca. | CRUCIFER (Sond.) 33 
racemes of white flowers. Readily known by having the two lateral sepals produced 
at base into a spur. Name, from xaua on the ground ; a low growing plant. 
_ 1. C. cornuta (Thunb. Nov. Gen. 2. 48; Fl. Cap. p. 496). Sond. 
i Hamburg Nat. Abhandl. 1. p. 269. t. 29. DC. Prod. 1. p. 141. 
Has. In fissures of rocks, Witteklipp, Swartland, Thunberg. Sand dunes at 
Saldanha Bay, Drege. Sep. (Herb. E. Mey., Sond.) 
A weak growing, glabrous annual, 2 feet high, branched above. Lower leaves 
opposite, sessile, reniform-cordate, 2 inches long, 3-4 inches wide ; middle leaves 
mostly alternate, deeply cordate, acute, 2 inches long and wide ; uppermost smaller, 
cordate-acuminate. Raceme few flowered; the flower bearing pedicels 1-2 lines, 
the fruiting 4 lines long. Flowers small, white. Pods 7-10 lines long, 2-3 lines 
wide, with nerveless striate valves. Seeds 2-4 in each loculus, compressed, ovate, 
2 lines long, 13 line wide, with a mucilaginous epidermis. Cotyledons wider than 
their length, when opened out 4 lines broad and 2 lines long, twice bent inwards 
laterally ; the radicle opposite the plication, filiform, A rare, curious, and little 
known plant. 
Tribe IV. SprrmLopea. 
Seeds with long, linear, incumbent cotyledons, spirally rolled on the 
radicle. (0 |). 
XV. BRACHYCARPZA, DC. 
Sepals equal at base. Silicula indehiscent, didymous, with a very 
narrow dissepiment ; the valves very ventricose ; loculi one seeded. 
DC. Prod. 1. p, 236. 
_ Glabrous, suffrutescent perennials, peculiar to S. Africa, Leaves oblong or 
linear, entire. Racemes long and leafless. Flowers large, yellow or purple. Name 
from Bpaxus, short, and Kaptos, fruit. 
1. B. varians (DC. Syst. 2 p. 698); leaves lanceolate, glabrous ; petals 
oval-oblong. Deless Ic, 2 t. 100, Cleome juncea, Thunb. Fi. Cap. p. 497- 
, ie ’ Why 
Sept / 
Coronopus anomalus, Spr. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 853. Br. varians and he 
polygaloides, EB. d& Z, 52, 51. nae 
Var. @ flava; flowers yellow. Heliophila flava, Lin. f. sup. 297. 
Han. Sandy fields. Swartland, Thunberg. Hills at Brackfontein, Clanwilliam, 
and near wuts eon a lippberg 
er eee a Genista, 3 feet high or more, with 
long, striolate branches. Leaves sessile, the ‘ uncial, 2-3 lines wide ; i Se 
2. B. laxa (Sond.) ; leaves linear ; petals lanceolate. 
Var, « laxa; stem ascending, branches incurved. Cleome lara, Thunb. 
Fl. Cap. 498. Br. linifolia, E. & Z. No. 53. Se pin 
Var. 6 stricta ; stem and branches straight, erect. B. emarginata, 
E. Mey. in Herb. Drege. Sond. Rev. Hel. t. 29 (fr.). t = a8 
Hap. Var. «, Sandy fields, near Verloren Valley and Langeklot, Thun 
