34 : CRUCIFER& (Sond.) [ Cycloptychis. 
river, Caledon, Z. ¢ Z. and Zeyher 1912. 8. Grom riv. and Waterval, Honigvallei, 
Kamiesberg and Leliefontein, Drege 7584. (Herb. Thunb., Lehm., Sond., T.0:D.) 
More slender than the last ; the stem 1-1} feet high, branches filiform, ramulous. 
Leaves 4 inch long, a line wide ; flowers purplish or yellow, half the size of those 
of B. varians, Petals 4 times as long as the Calyx. Fruit half the size of that of 
B. varians. 
Tribe V. D1rPLEcoLoBEez. 
Seeds with long, linear, incumbent cotyledons twige folded trans- 
versely on the radicle. (0 {||| ). 
Sub-tribe I. CycLoprycHIDE#. 
Silicula nucamentaceous, indehiscent, orbicular-ovate, rostrate 3 Sep- 
tum orbicular ; valves somewhat convex, with elevated ridges, radiating 
from the more prominent, keeled centre ; seeds solitary in each cell. 
XVI. CYCLOPTYCHIS, E. Mey. 
Character the same as that of the sub-tribe. 
Suffruticose or herbaceous plants, peculiar to 8. Africa, with virgate branches ; 
simple, entire, narrow, jeeithes: scattered leaves, and long, naked, terminal racemes 
of purple flowers. They resemble Brachycarpea in aspect, but differ both in the 
form of the seed vessel and structure of the seed. The name is compounded of kuKAos 
a circle and mrvt a plait, or ridge, from the radiating ridges on the fruit. 
1. C. virgata (E. Mey. in Herb. Drege) ; suffruticose, erect, quite 
glabrous, glaucous ; branches virgate, terete ; leaves coriaceous, lanceo- 
late, mucronulate ; racemes elongate ; pods glabrous. Cleome virgata 
Thunb. Cap. p. 498. 
Has. Interior districts, Thunberg. Piquetberg, at Groenvalley, Oct. ; Pikenier- 
Kloof, Sant = Berg, 1000-2500 f., Nov., Drege. Tulbagh, £. & Z./ Sep. (Herb. 
iy “E- OD). 
2 feet or more high, very similar, when in flower, to Brachycarpea. Branches 
simple, filiform. Leaves remote, alternate, sessile, very entire, one nerved below ; 
the lower ones oblong-lanceolate, uncial, 2~3 lines wide, upper gradually smaller. 
Racemes long, many flowered ; pedicels erecto-patent, 2-4 lines long. Sepals 
oblong, 3 nerved, 2 lines long. Petals oblong, clawed, 5-8 lines long, P ch 
Stamens 6, as long as the calyx ; anthers linear, notched at base. Ripe poue 
brownish, the orbicular valves 3 lines in diameter, the smooth beak equalling them in 
length. Seeds x line long. sgn 
; 2. ©. polygaloides (Sond.); herbaceous, very thinly pubescent 5 
stem weak, branched ; branches filiform ; leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, narrowed at base ; raceme short ; pods (young) pU- 
bescentt Jo o5 pee 
Has. Tulbagh, Nov. Zeyher (Herb. Sond.). 
Decumbent, with the a§ Pelpeats seicete a span long, slender. Leaves 
alternate, closely set, 4-6 long, 1-14 line wide. Raceme 4-8 flowered ; pedicels 
Peg mg Meteo hey eee 
z tals more than twice as lon ’ % 
plish. St. 6. Ovary 3-li es long, ovate, restrato-aouainate,, Ripe fruit unknown. 
+ | Sub-tribe II. PALMSTRUKTER. 
Silicula indehiscent, orbicular, one celled, one seeded ; valves fiat 
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