354 ZYGOPHYLLE& (Sond.) [ Sisyndite. 
Has. On the Gareep, near Verleptram, Drege/ Sep. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., — 
Lehm.) 
Stems flexuous, 1-2 feet long, with the branches, stipules, peduncles and calyx 
hirsute. Internodes uncial. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 2 lines long. Leaves _ 
unequal, the larger inch-long. Leaflets silky, green above. Peduncles erect, 8-12 
lines long. Sepals acuminate, 4 lines long. Petals 6-7 lines long. Stamens as — 
long as the calyx. Stigma conical-oblong, 1 line long. Ripe carpels 3 lines lon 
including the wings 6 lines wide ; the wings rounded, transversely striate, tooth Lb 
the teeth at length more evident and mostly unequal, one 3 lines, the other 2-2, 
lines long.—Nearly related to 7. alata, Del., from North Africa, but in Sieber’s 
specimens of that species the stems and branches are not hairy, the stipules are 
shorter and broader, the peduncles very short, and the disc of the carpels is wider, — 
and the wings narrower. 
4. T. cristatus (Presl, l.c. p. 30); leaflets in about 5 pairs, sub-equal, 
acute ; peduncles in the axil of a 3-4 times shorter leaf ; petals broad, 
cuneate, twice as long as the calyx ; style short ; stigma pyramidal ; 
iH carpels with two marginal-crested, unequally spinulose wings ; disc of the 
f carpels prickly. 
Has. At the Gareep, on “op Bare at Verleptram, below 1o0of. Drege./ 7160. 
Sep. (Herb, Sond., T.C.D., Lehm.) ; 
Very near the preceding, and also hairy, but the hairs are stiffer, less dense an 
the colour is greener. Stipules acuminate, 2-3 lines long. Leaf an inch or more 
in length. Peduncles +1 inch long. Flowers large, the petals in some 6 lines, 10 
others nearly an inch long. Carpels 3-seeded, emarginate at summit, thé ripe } inch 
wide and high ; the wings membranous, twice as wide as the disc, armed at the mar- 
gin with spines, }-2 lines long. Seeds oblong. : 
v-\ I«SISYNDITE, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted, the lobes somewhat imbricate. Petals 5, at first 
short and truncate, at length oblong, longer than the calyx. Stamens 
10, hypogynous; filaments subulate, glabrous, equalling the calyx ; 
anthers linear, versatile, two-celled, longitudinally slitting. Hypogy- 
nous-scales 5, circling the ovary, opposite the sepals. Ovary sessile, 
very hairy, 5-angled, 5-celled ; ovules solitary, erect. Style filiform, 
hairy, thickened into a clavate 5-furrowed stigma. Fruit capsular, 5- 
lobed, the carpels compressed, ovate, acute, transversely furrowed, 2 all 
parts clothed with long, golden-yellow hairs, at length separating and 
opening by the ventral sutures, Seed compressed, erect ; testa mem- 
branous ; embryo without albumen ; cotyledons thick ; radicle short, 
superior, | 
_ _ A suffrutex, with the habit of Spartiwn junceum, di-tri-chotomous and quite gla- 
_brous and glaucous, with very few leaves. Leaves onshort petioles, remote, a 
ching in pairs, simple, obovate, retuse or shortly apiculate, : 
_ pules 2, short. Peduncles solitary, in the forks of the Srasieled one-fiowered. 
Name, perhaps from cuvdéw, to link together ? 
1.8. spartea (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege). 
_ Several fect high, erect, with terete, virgate branches and ramuli. Adult leaves 
} lines wide, very entire ; petiole t line long. Stipules ovate, 
mbranous or somewhat coloured, albo-tomentose within. Pe 
