Palmstruckia.] CRUCIFER (Sond.) 35 
XVII PALMSTRUOKIA, Sond. 
Silicula sessile, orbicular, compresso-plane, indehiscent, unilocular, 
one seeded, Seed orbicular, compressed, with a membranous, marginal 
wing. Cotyledons linear, incumbent, twice folded. 
A glabrous, erect herb. Leaves linear-filiform. Flowers racemose, cernuous ; 
pedicels filiform, ebracteate. Name in honour of J. W. Palmstruck, editor of 
** Svensk Botanik.”* : 
1. P. Capensis. (Sond.) Peltaria Capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 490. 
(non. Lin, f.). : 
Has. Onderste Roggeveld, Nov. (deflorata) Thunberg. (Herb. Thunb.) Stem 
herbaceous, somewhat decumbent at base, then erect, terete, a foot high, alternately 
branched. Leaves remote, according to Thunb. “filiform.” Fruiting racemes 
elongate ; pedicels 6-9 lines long. Ripe pods 7-8 lines long and wide, rounded at 
top or somewhat retuse, tipped with a very short style ; the valves flattish, nerve- 
less, veined. Septum none. Seed 3 lines in diameter, emarginate. Not found by 
any collector since Thunberg. The flowers are unknown. 
Sub-tribe ITI. Hetiopuitra. 
Siliqua dehiscent or rarely indehiscent, elongate, or rarely oblong or 
oval, with a linear or oval septum ; valves flat or somewhat convex. 
Seeds several. 
XVIUL CARPONEMA, Sond. 
Siliqua sessile, indehiscent, linear, terete, tapering to each end, tipped 
with a conical style, somewhat constricted between the seeds, with a 
very thin septum, two-celled ; one cell smaller and empty, the other 
seed-bearing : valves hardened, nerveless. Seeds in a single row, oblong, 
terete, immarginate, separated by transverse partitions. Sond. in Hamb. 
Naturwus. Abhandl. 1. p. 178. 
XTX. HELIOPHILA, Burm. L. 
Siliqua sessile or pedicellate, dehiscent, compressed or subterete, the 
margins either straight, or sinuated, constricted between the seeds, and 
moniliform ; with a membranous septum, two-celled, bivalve. Seeds 
in a single row, compressed, often bordered with a wing. DC. Prod. 
I p- 23 I. ; : . 5 
Annuals or suffruticose perennials, natives exclusively of South Africa. Leaves 
various. Racemes elongate, leafless ; pedicels filiform, Flowers yellow, white, rosy 
* Palmstruckia, M. C. Retz. Obs. Bot. 1810.==Chenostoma, Benth ay poe 
peste gor and which it seems undesirable to alter. Te ae ‘e ane <7 
posed Sei theterve Palestrsl's name to a Cape plant. — > ge ee 
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