362 ZYGOPHYLLEE (Sond.) [Zygophyllum. 
acuminate, reflexed, at length hardened. Flowers 4-5-cleft. Peduncles }-1 inch 
long. Sepals two lines long, at length reflexed, persistent, the outer acute. Petals 
thrice as long as the calyx, cuneate-obovate, yellowish or yellow, with a purple-violet 
basal spot. Stamens + as long as the petals. Capsule 7-8 lines long, 4-5 lines 
wide, with thin wings, one line in width. 
15. Z. microphyllum (Linn. f. Suppl. p. 232) ; fruticulose, much- 
branched ; branches lignescent, with sub-spinescent branchlets ; leaves 
shortly petiolate ; leaflets minute, ovate or obovate, sub-oblique, coriaced- 
carnose ; peduncles longer than the leaves; sepals ovate, obtuse ; pe- 
tals thrice as Jong as the calyx, obovate, clawed ; filaments more than 
twice as long as the obovate, lacerate scales; capsules spheroidal, 4-5 
winged, truncate at base and apex, sub-emarginate. Thunb. Cap. p. 545+ 
Z. horridum, Cham. and Schl. l. ¢. p. 46. : 
Has. Hantam and Onderste Roggeveld, Thunberg, Drege, 7173. Bitterfontein, 
Zey. 277. May. (Herb. Thunb., r. Berol., Sond.). . 
A shrub, two feet high or less, the primary branches as thick as a fowl’s quill, 
greyish ; secondary spreading, rigid ; branchlets erecto-patent, opposite or alternate, 
terete, yellowish, with internodes 4-8 lines long. Leaflets mostly 13~2 lines long, 
a line wide, some longer and broader. Petioles as long as the leatlets or shorter, 
with a triangular point. Stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, 4-6 lines 
long. Flowers 4-5-fid. Sepals 11 lines long, reflexed, persistent. Laminaof the 
petals elliptical, yellowish, spotted at base. Stamens shorter than the petals. Cap- 
sule 21 lines long and wide, the wings veiny and glabrous. 
16. Z. dichotomum (Lichst. ; Cham. and Schl. 1. ¢. p. 48); arbo- 
rescent ; branches dichotomous ; branchlets sometimes opposite, terete, 
short ; leaves short-stalked; leaflets minute, widely obovate or ob- 
liquely obcordate, coriaceous. 
Has. On the Gareep River, Lichtenstein. June. (Herb. Reg.-Berol.) 
A tall tree, called “ Witgat” by the colonists, Licht,—The single branch, in Herb. 
Berol., is about eight inches long, as thick as a goose-quill, eight times forked, sub- 
trichotomous toward the extremity, with spreading branchlets. The few leaves 
that remain are carnoso-coriaceous, the leaflets 14-2 lines long. Flowers and fruits 
wanting. 
17. Z. glaucum (E. Mey.) ; fruvticulose ; branches lignescent ; branch- 
lets angular; leaves shortly petiolate ; leaflets oblong or elliptic-ob- 
long, sub-oblique at base, coriaceous, glaucous ; sepals obtuse, glabrous ;. 
petals obovate, acute, clawed; filaments one-third longer than the ob- 
long-cuneate, fimbriato-ciliate scales ; (unripe) capsule sub-globose. 
pie Mean in Klein Namaqualand, 3000f. Sep. Drege/ 3189. (Herb. E. 
A low, much-branched, rigid, greyish undershrub, with alternate branches. Pe- 
tioles mostly but one-half as long as the leaflets, oot bese point. Leaf- 
Bs ;3 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, some smaller, one-nerved. Stipules small, tri- 
‘Sngular, acute. Peduncles 3-4 lines long. Sepals one line long, at length reflexed, 
_ Petals 3-4 times longer than the calyx, yellowish. Stamens shorter 
_ than the petals, the larger part covered with the fimbriate scales. Unripe capsule 
: pb rar Aaa or furrowed at base, brownish, tipped with a rigid, subulate 
2 18, Zz 
_— lignescent mm (E. Mey.) ; fruticulose, with alternate, rigid, 
short and : bo-papillose ‘branches, the ultimate branchlets 
or geminate, petiolate ; leaflets ellip- 
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