Heliophila.| _ CRUCIFER& (Sond.) 53 
Has. Clayey soil, at base of Winterhoek, Uitenhage, Krauss, 1254. April. 
(Herb. Meisn.) 
Stem erect, the branches with raised striw. Leaves 1 inch long, 1-1} lines wide, 
one-nerved, the nerve more evident below, and branching. Pedicels spreading, 4~6 
lines long. Petals twice as long as the calyx, yellowish white, oblong-spathulate. 
Ovary glabrous. ; 
57. H. Dregeana (Sond. 1. c. p. 260. t. 23. f.2.); pods pedicellate, 
narrow linear, subfalcate, tipped with a short style ; leaves small, ovate, 
acute, thickish, muricate ; racemes terminal, few-flowered ; stem shrubby, 
glabrous. 
Has. Wupperthal, Von Wurmb, Drege 7556. (Herb. Sond.) 
Stem more than a foot high, with dark coloured bark ; branches short, erect, 
scabrous, at length smooth. Leaves 2~23 lines long, 1 line wide, rather concave 
above, below convex, one-nerved, mucronulate, green or reddish. Flowers 6—8, sub- 
corymbose, apparently whitish. Lower pedicels 3 lines long. Petals twice as long 
as the calyx, 1% lines wide. Pods § lines long, 4 line wide ; thecaphore 3~1 line 
long. 
Sec. 5. Pacuysrytum (DC.) Siligua sessile, linear, subterete, velvetty 
tipped with a thick, conical or cylindrical glabrous style. Pubescent, 
shrubs, with entire leaves. (Sp. 58-59.) 
58. H. incana (Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 1. vol. 2. p. 397) ; pods linear 
subterete, velvetty, tipped with a thick, conical, glabrous style ; leaves 
spathulate. DC. Syst. 2.p.694. Sond. l.c.p.261. H. frutescens, Lam. 
Dict, 3. p. gi. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Aiton. August. 
Stem 2 feet high; branches leafy, terete, villoso-pubescent. Leaves spreading, 
nerveless, thickish, canescent with a soft down, obtuse, the upper inch long, lower 
2 inches. Racemes elongate. Pedicels pubescent, 4 lines long, erect. Calyx 
villous, obtuse ; 2 sepals flat, 2 concave. Petals blue-purple, longer than the calyx, 
obovate. Lateral stamens toothed at base. Pods erect, villoso-tomentose, an inch 
or more long, scarcely a line wide, subincurved ; the conical style 1} lines long, 
ending in 2 minute, acute stigmata. 
59. H. arenaria (Sond. lL. c. p. 262) ; pods linear, subterete, torulose, 
velvetty, tipped with a thick, cylindrical style ; leaves Hinear. 
Stems 2 or more feet high ; branches terete, velvetty, the lower ones spreading. 
Leaves thickish, velvetty, ge inches long, j-1 line wide ; the np seiner 
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tals. Pods velvetty, 2 inches long ; 4 line wide, straight or curved, one-nerved ; 
the thick style 1 line long. Seeds oval. *Cotyledons sub-obliquely twisted, nearly as 
in Carponema jiliforme. 
Suc. 6. Lancronarta, (DC.) Siliqua compressed, lanceolate, tapering 
into a short style, sessile or stipitellate. Seeds large. Cotyledons in- 
cumbent, linear, twice bent, the terminal part subspirally rolled round 
the other, Glabrous shrubs, with entire leaves. (Sp. 60-61.) 
60. H. florulenta (Sond. 1. c. p. 263) ; suffruticose, glabrous ; pods lan- 
ceolate, attenuate at raised on a short stipes ; leaves linear-spathu- 
late, mucronulate ; racemes short, densely flowered ; petals spathulate, 
obtuse, clawed. Carpopodium carnosum, E. & Z. No. 101. excl. syn. 
Var. 8. obliqua; pods oblique. H. obligua, E. Mey, Herb. Drege. 
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