50 CRUCIFER® (Sond.) [ Heliophila. 
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Has. Grassy fields and on hills. Plettenberg’s Bay, Burchell. Zwartkops R. Vit; 
and at Graaf Reynet, F. & Z. Somerset, Mrs. Barber. Gamke R, Burke & Z. 
Klaarstroom, Zwarteberg, Drege. 8. Springbokkeel, Zeyher. Aug. Oct. and Feb. 
(Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.). 
Stem 1-2 feet high, branched at base, branches virgate, leafy in the lower part. 
Leaves 1-2 inches long, 4 line wide, often with axillary fascicles. Racemes 6 inches 
long, naked. Fruit stalks spreading. Flowers very sweet, rather large, violet or 
purple. Sepals 3 lines long. Style 1-2 lines long. Pod 1-1} inches long, 1} 
lines wide, with compressed valves, subsinuate, rarely straight-edged, somewhat 
three-nerved. Seeds 12-16 in each pod. 
47. H. succulenta (Herb. Banks) ; suffruticose, glabrous ; pods Linear, 
pendulous, tipped with a short style ; leaves fleshy, filiform-linear, fur- 
rowed, obtuse. Sond. lc. p. 249. Cheir. carnosus, Thunb. Cap. p. 493+ 
HT, platysiliqua, R. Br. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2. V. 4. p. 99. DC. Syst. 2. p. 
692. 
Has. On the shore, Verloren Valley, Thunberg. In forests, Krakakamma, Uit., 
£.&Z, Oct.—Jan. (Herb. Thunb., Sond.). 
Stem a foot or more high, with long, nearly leafless branches. ‘Leaves scattered 
or crowded, 1-1} inches long, a line wide, semiterete, channelled, sometimes twice 
as wide near the point, and flattish, Racemes 6 inches long: fruit stalks uncial. 
Flowers purple, nearly as in preceding. Pod ona short stipes, 14 inches long, 2 
ee obtuse at base ; the valves flattish, with a prominent central nerve. 
6-8 in each pod. Differs from H. swavissima in its fleshy leaves, and stipitate 
pods, not tapering at base. 
48. H. subulata (Burch. Cat. 6214); fruticulose, mmutelydowny ; pods 
linear, spreading, not tapering at base, tipped with a short style, leaves 
linear-subulate, very acute. DC. Syst. 2. p. 691. Sond. l. ¢. p. 250 t. 26. 
H, subulata & H. pubescens, E. & Z. 83 d& 84. Zeyher 1910, 
Var. 8. glabrata ; leaves glabrous or nearly so. Sond. 1. ¢. t. 26. f- 
H. maritima, B.& Z. 85. 
Has. Sandy or stony places. Hartenbosch, Mosselbay, Burchell. Between Breede 
and Duivenhoeks Rivers, Swell ; and near Gauritz river and Langekloof, George ; 
also Oliphantshoek, Uit.; and Zwarteberg, Caledon ; and near Simonstown, E. § Z. 
Palmiet river ; Howhoek ; and near Bethelsdorp, Drege. 7560, 7565, 757°. ‘Tulbagh, 
Lichtenstein. Port Natal, Krauss. §. Port Elizabeth, &c.; and in Swellendam. 
May-—Dec. (Herb. Burch., r, Berol., Sond., T.C.D.). 
Stem slender, 1-2 feet high, leaves }—1 inch long, flattish or subterete, downy, OF 
in B. glabrous. Flowering branches long and naked, ending in a many flowered 
raceme. Pedicels 4-6 lines long. Flowers purple. Pods spreading, in 8. pendulous, 
14 inches long, 1 line wide, obtuse at each end ; the valves compressed, three-nerved, 
the lateral nerves obsolete. 
49. HL. rigidi (Sond. 1. ¢. p. 251. t. 27) ; suffruticose, glabrous, 
simple ; pods pendulous, lanceolate, narrowed at base, tipped with a long, 
beak-leke style ; lower leaves linear, upper filiform, acute. H. virgata, 
E. ms (non Burch.) H. subulata and H. suavissima, E. Mey. Hb. 
Drege ; No. 5215, 3630. 
Hab. Hills, near the Witte and Zwart Key Rivers, Tambukiland ; also Wind- 
Vogelsberg, Caff., F.G Z. Kat and Aiechiah ary oad Omtendo, Drege, May- 
Nov. (Herb, E. Mey, Sond., T.C.D.). : 
; i ight, strongly striate. Leaves thickish. 2-3 
rai violet Teall salts t inch lace, "Pele s inches lang, 2-24 lines wide 
beaked with a style pogo ge sateen ateaaied the lateral nerves 
