46 CRUCIFERE (Sond.) [Heliophila. | 
Stems straightly erect, terete, 1-1} ft., slender, leafy, with erect branches. — 
Leaves 2—21 inches long ; the lobes remote, 4-8 lines long: the rameal leaves — 
mostly linear and undivided. Racemes lax : pedicels 3-4 lines long. Flowers 
small, purple, Pods 2 inches long, 4 line wide ; valves subtorulose, style 1-1} 
lines long, ae 
32. H. seselifolia (Burch. Trav. 1. p. 258.) ; herbaceous, dlabrous, 
and glaucous ; pods sub-pendulous, linear, one-nerved, tipped with a 
short style ; leaves petiolate, pinnati-partite, the lobes 3-5 pair, patent, Z 
linear-subulate ; lateral stamens toothed at base ; seeds orbicular, mar 
gined. DO. Syst. 2.684. Sond. t.c. 233. H.coronopifolia, var. 8. Lam. 
Dic. 3.90. Illust. t. 562. f.2. H.dissecta PB. H. Mey. : 
Has. Roggeveld, near Jackalsfontein, Burchell. Between Koussi® and Zilver- 
fontein, and between Z. fontein, Kooperberg and Kaus, 2-3000f. Drege 7589. Aug. 
Sep. (Herb. Burch., Sond.) ee, era 
6 inches high, slender, branched above. Lower leaves crowded, uncial, glaucous, 
the petiole 3-6 lines long; the lobes subfiliform, 3-5 lines long: Upper leaves 
often undivided, Racemes 8-12 fl. Pedicels 4-5 lines long ; the fruiting ones 
rather longer. Flowers white or yellowish, mediocre. Pods horizontal or pendulous, 
uncial, 4 line wide ; valves compressed ; style 4-1 line long, the stigma discoid. - 
33. H. refracta (Sond. 1. ¢. p. 234) ; herbaceous, glabrous, glaucous 5 
pods elongate, linear, very narrow, deflexed, tipped with a short, obtuse 
style ; leaves petiolate, pinnati-partite, lobes 2-3 pairs, subfiliform ; lateral 
stamens toothed at base ; the narrow sepals horned at the apex ; seeds 
ovate, immarginate. Lept. rivalis, E. & Z. No. 63. (each. syn.) Be 
Has. Sandy places. Cape Flats, near Doornhoogde, EZ. § Z. Aug. (Herb. Sond.) 
1-2 feet high. Stems eat Teaty at the Pies gee Ake see Leayes 
2 inches long ; petiole uncial ; lobes suberect, 6—10 lines long ; the upper undivided. 
Racemes 10-16 fl. ; flower stalks. suberect, 4-7 lines, in fruit refracted, 7-8 lines ae 
Fl. middle size, blue, with yellow centre. Pods 2-24 inches long ; stigma discoid. — 
Seeds 40-50 in each pod. “Remarkable for its very long, very slender and often sub- 
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monilifirm pods, uniting the sections Leptormus and Orthoselis 
34. H. trifurea (Burch, Cat. No. 1487) : herbaceous, glabrous ; pods 
linear, deflexed ; leaves very narrow, three forked, lobes linear, entre. 
DC. Syst. 2. 688. excl. syn. Sond. l. C.D. 235. fis " 
Var. y. parviflora, ‘flowers twice as small, whitish: 
BE. & 2.78. tere res cB 
A. stalke 5-6 lineelong. “‘Wlowors yboolish or las: St 
lines wide ; valves one-nerved, wi a very short style. : 
nown) ; leaves linear, very entire; 
687. Sond. l.c: p. 236. ahaa 
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