| Pee CAPPARIDEZ (Sond.) [ Tertratelia. 
2. D. Burchelliana (K1. 1. c. p. 161. in note) ; glaucous, the stem rough 
with minute-hooked prickles ; lower leaves on longish petioles, 7-foliolate, 
upper on shorter petioles 3—5-foliolate ; leaflets very narrow-linear, 
obtuse ; petals unequal, obovate ; fertile stamens 2, sterile 6, shorter, 
with a conical-oblong appendicule ; pods linear, pendulous, glabrous. 
Cleome diandra, Burch. Trav. 1. p. 548. Polanisia dianthera, DC. 1. c. p- 
242. 
- Has. Gattikamma, Feb., Burchell. Stony hills at Zwartbulletze and at Gamke- 
river, 2500-3000f. Drege. (Herb. Sond.) 
Annual, 2 feet high, slender, armed in the lower part with rigid, recurv 
prickles ; branches erecto-patent, striate. Middle leaflets an inch long, 4 line wide. 
Flowers rosy (?), size of the preceding. Pedicels 8 lines long. Pods 2-24 inches 
long, 14 lines wide ; style beaklike, 2 lines long ; thecaphore 4 lines long. Seeds 
as in D. Petersiana. 
3. D. semitetrandra (K1. 1. c. p. 162. in note); glabrous, the leaves 
trifoliolate ; leaflets as long as the petiole, linear-filiform ; upper leaves 
undivided ; petals oblongo-spathulate or oblong ; fertile stamens 2, 
sterile 2, twice as short ; pods linear, curved, pendulous ; thecaphore 
very short. Cleome diandra, Burch ? E. Mey. Pl. Drege. Cl. semitetran- 
dra, Sond. Linn. 23. p. 5. 
Has. Stony places at Gamkeriver and Wilgeriver, March. Burke & Zeyher, e. 
(Herb. Sond, BCD.) oe 2s rate 
A small annual, inches high, branching, resembling Heliophila pinnata. 
Leaves 4 inch long. Raceme lax ; pedicels 4-6 lines long, horizontally patent in 
fruit. Flowers small, purplish. Calyx 1 line, petals 2 lines long. Fertile stamens 
as long as the petals; sterile more slender, obtuse. Pods uncial, 1} lines wide. 
Seeds downy. 
V. TETRATELIA, Sond. (n. gen.) 
Calyx-tube short, swollen ; limb 4—parted, deciduous, subequal. 
Petals 4, on long claws, subinequal ; 2 obovate-oblong, 2 oblong. Sta-— 
mens 8, unequal, united at base into a tube ; 4 sterile shorter, clavate, 
apiculate ; 4 fertile elongate ; anthers oblong, 2 celled. Torus small. 
Pod linear, stipitate, with a filiform style ; valves parallelly 3-nerved, 
veinless, glabrous. Seeds curved, reniform, compressed, glabrous, trans- 
versely crested. ‘ 
A South African, glabrous, branching annual, with alternate, petiolate, 3-5” 
foliolate leaves, the leaflets narrow linear. ‘Racemes terminal, the bracts minute, 
setaceous. Name, terpa, four, and teAewos, perfect, referring to the 4 perfect 
stamens, 
Atherstone, (Herb. Hook., Holm., Sond. 
A small plant, with the aspect of Helisphila trifurca. Stem 1 foot high, terete, 
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