ee: _ CRUCIFER® (Sond.) [ Heliophila. 
53. H. virgata (Burch. Cat. Geogr.) ; suffruticose, glabrous ; pods — 
spreading or sub-deflexed, linear, one-nerved, tipped with a filiform style | 
longer than the pedicel ; leaves ovate, entire or toothed ; stamens tooth- 
less, DC. Syst. 2 p. 693. Sond. l.c. p. 256. 
Var, a, integrifolia; leaves entire, flowers yellowish or white. 
Burch. Cat. 4605. DC.l.c. H. glauca, EB. & Z. 91. excl. var, 8. 
Var, 8, dentata; leaves coarsely and sharply toothed ; flowers 
white, Burch. l. c. 3933. 
Has. Krakakamma, Burchell. Vanstaadensberg and near Port Elizabeth, UVit., 
E. § Z. B. Riet Fontein, near the Kowie, Alb., Burchell. Oct. (Herb. Burch., Sond.,) 
A slender suffrutex, 1-2 feet high, simply or slightly branched. Leaves thickish- 
leathery, ovate, acute, narrowed into a short petiole, 6-9 lines long, 3-4 lines wide, 
the upper narrower and smaller. Racemes elongate. Pedicels 3-5 lines long. 
Flowers mediocre. Pods 2-24 inches long, a line wide. Style 4-6 lines long. Var. 
B., differing in having the leaves with 2-3 coarse and sharp teeth at each side, and 
a more branching and more woody stem, may be a distinct species. 
54, H. scoparia (Burch, Cat. Geogr, 7887 and 8557.) ; shrubby, 
glabrous ; pods erect, linear, tapering into a short style; leaves linear- 
subulate, rigid ; racemes axillary and terminal, few flowered, DC. Syst. 
2. p. 492. Deless, Ic, 2. t.98. HE. & Z. 99. Sond Jc. p. 257. Cher. 
strictus, Lin. f. Thunb, Cap. p. 492 (excl. syn). Hck. Un. It. No. 171. 
Has. Mountains round Capetown ; Bavianskloof ; Muysenberg ; Brackfontein ; 
Hott., Holl., and Houw Hoek, Burchell, Thunberg, dc. E. & Z. Breede river and 
Rondebosch, Zeyher. Mierenkasteel, Knakerberg 1000—1500f. and Kaus, 2-3000f. 
Drege. Ap.—Nov. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., r. Berol., T.C.D.). 
A rigid, erect shrub, 1-2 feet high, branched from the base ; the branches angular. 
Leaves very erect, thick and hard, subtrigonal, convex below, concave above, the 
points often incurved, 6-12 lines long, 4-1 line wide. Racemes 2-4 flowered, short. 
Pedicels shorter than the leaves ; the fruiting ones 4-5 lines long. Sepals, 2 obtuse, 
2 acute. Petals purplish or white, 4 lines long. Pods straight 2-24 inches long, 
14 lines wide, one-nerved ; style 1-2 lines long. 
55. H. callosa (DC. Syst. 2. p. 696) ; pods linear, compressed, stipi- 
tate ; leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, hard-pointed, three-nerved be- 
low ; stems shrubby, angular, glabrous. Meisn. in Hook. L. Journ. 1. p- 
464. Sond. 1. c.258. Cleome capensis, Lin. Sp. 940. Cheir. callosus, Lan. 
f. Sup. 296. Thunb. Cap. Fl. 492. H. cleomoides, DC. l. c. 695. Del. Lc. 
2. t.99. Drege 7557. 
Has. In stony places, on the Mountains near Capetown, Thunberg, and most 
subsequent collectors. At the Waterfall, Devil’s Mt., W.H.H. Ap.—Sep. (Herb. 
Thunb., r. ing areme Sond., T.C.D.) will, SS ib 
Shrubs 2 feet high or more, Stem as thick as a goose quill, angular, ro 
above, branching. Branches subfastigiate, 6-12 inches long. Leaves erect, gla- 
brous, rugulose above (when dry), three-nerved below ; the lower or cauline 14-2 
inches long, 3-4 lines wide ; upper linear-lanceolate, narrower and shorter. Fruit- 
ing racemes little elongate ; 4-8 lines long. Outer sepals gibbous below the 
apex. Petals twice as rig ta the calyx, purplish. Pods 2-4 inches long, 2-3 lines 
wide ; valves one-nerved. Stipe of the pod (thecaphore) sometimes 5-6 lines, some- 
times 14-2 lines long, cylindrical. Seeds 3 lines long or more, margined. 
56. H. brachycarpa (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1. p. 465) 3 pods 
(not known) ; ovary briefly stipitate, lanceolate-oblong ; leaves gre” 
subpetiolate, linear-subspathulate, subacute, flat, one-nerved ; stem shrubby, 
terete, glabrous ; raceme corymbose, few-flowered; petals with short. 
claws. Sond. l. c. p. 260. 
