378 RUTACEH (Sond.) [Coleonema. 
outer apical angle, compressed, rough with dots, B. ¢ W.l.c. p. 55+ 
Juss, l.c. p. 471. Endl. Gen. 6016, 
Shrubs, with scattered, linear leaves, Flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles 
caliculate with several appressed bracts. Name from koAecos, a sheath, and vnua, a 
filament ; the barren filaments are sheathed by the channelled petals. 
A. Flowers white. (Sp. 1-3.) * 
1. C. album (B.& W.! 1c. p. 56); much-branched, the twigs very 
thinly pubescent ; leaves crowded, sub-erect, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 
channelled above, convex-carinate beneath, with a straight, pungent 
mucro, the diaphanous margin serrulate ; bracts and calyx-lobes ovate, 
obtuse or acute, pubescent-ciliate at the edges ; petals spathulate, round- 
ish-obtuse, shortly apiculate. 2. § Z. / 831. D. rubra, Berg. Cap. p. 62. 
excl. syn. D. alba, Thunb. Prod. p.84. Fl. Cap. p.221. Willd. ! Sp. Pl. 
1134. Hb. Un. It. 239. Adenandra alba, R. & Sch. Drege, No. 7138, 
7139. 
Has, Common on hills and mountain sides round Capetown, and through the Cape 
and Stellenbosch districts. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., T.C.D., &c.) : 
One or more feet high, erect, nearly glabrous, the branches erect or gocendings 
twigs leafy. Leaves about 6 lines long, } line wide, bi-quadri-fariously pellucid- 
dotted beneath. Flowers white, axillary, solitary on very short branchlets, sub- 
racemose, rarely crowded at the tips. Bracts 6-8, about a line long, ovato-lanceo- 
late, acute, as long as the calyx or longer. Petals more than twice as long a8 
the calyx, the claw equalling the calyx, the limb spreading. Sterile filaments sub- 
acute, not gland-tipped. Capsule thrice as long as the calyx, the carpels acutely 
carinate, rough-dotted, with short, straight or slightly patent horns, } line long. 
2. C. aspalathoides (Juss. 1. c. p. 471); much-branched ; twigs very 
thinly pubescent ; leaves rather crowded, sub-erect, linear, keeled and 
sub-triangular, with a recurved mucro, the diaphanous margin serrulate ; 
bracts and calyx-lobes acwminate ; petals oblongo-spathulate, acuminate. 
Has. In the Karroo, at Rietkail, Swell., Zey./ 2159. Oct. Interior regions, 
Niven. (Herb. Sond.) ye. 
6 inches to 3 feethigh. Leaves 3-3} lines long, } line wide. Flowers axillary oF 
terminal, as large as in C. albwm, from which this species is known by its more slen- 
der branches, smaller and narrower leaves, with recurved points, rather narrower 
and more acuminate petals, and smaller capsules, not twice as long as the calyx. 
3. C. juniperinum (Sond.); much-branched, branches and twigs 
slender, virgate, glabrous ; leaves sub-erect, narrow-linear, with a short, 
straight mucro, concave above, convex underneath, the diaphanous mar- 
_ gin scarcely scabrid; bracts minute, oblong; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 
apiculate ; petals obovate, obtuse, or sub-apiculate, with very short claws. 
: oo ome Jjuniperina, Spreg. Herb. Zey. 397. D. virgata, EB. Mey.! D. 
be wee. Steud. Coleonema juniperifolium and C. virginianum, E.& Z.! 
“i Var. 8. 3 calyx rather longer. 
oes ugh, Worcester, HE. & Z./ Zey./ 2150, ex pte. B. Klyn- 
ug.-Dec. (Herb. Lehm., Sond., T.C.D.). 
