Empleurum.] RUTACEE (Sond.) 441 
More than 1 foot high, erect, with slender, mostly ternate branches and uncial or 
shorter twigs. Leaves 1 line long, uppermost half that size, closely appressed, some- 
times with spreading tips. Flowers sessile, 6-10 together. Calyx 1 line long, the 
lobes [obtuse, ciliolate. Limb of the petals patent, roundish, pointed, glabrous. 
Style 4 times as long as the calyx.—This differs from the others of the genus by its 
altogether appressed leaves, 
6. M. ovata (Sond.); twigs patent, scarcely downy ; leaves scattered, 
close, sub-imbricate, sessile, ovate, sub-acute, sub-recurvo-patent, concave 
above, glabrous, nerve-keeled beneath, and hairy at the margin ; flowers 
sub-sessile, capitate-aggregate ; calyx lobes lanceolate, obtuse, hairy, 
ciliate at the hyaline margin; petals longer than the calyx, obovate- 
cuneate, sub-acute, bearded in the middle. 
Has. Interior regions, Niven/ (Herb. Mart., Sond.) : ; : 
A foot or more in height, with patent, glabrous branches, the ultimate twigs uncial. 
Leaves 2-2} lines long, 14 line wide, with flat. margins, the uppermost somewhat 
imbricate, Flowers 4-6 together. Calyx 2 lines long, the lobes concave. Petals 4 
longer than the calyx.—Style eventually elongate, a little thickened upwards. Habit 
nearly that of an Acmadenia. It differs from A. squarrosa, B. & W. by the more ro- 
bust growth, 2-3 times larger leaves, Ke. 
7. M. hirta (E. Mey. ! in Hb. Drege) ; the spreading twigs and leaves 
hairy; leaves scattered, sub-imbricate, sessile, patent, cordate-acute flat- 
tish above, glabrous, keeled; flowers very shortly pedicellate, capitate- 
aggregate; calyx lobes oblong, obtuse; petals longer than the calyx, 
obovate-oblong, sub-acute, bearded in the middle. 
Var. 8. glabrata; leaves and calyx-segments glabrous. 
Has. Between Bervalley and Langevalley, at Zwaartbastkraal, Drege! Nov. 
(Herb. E, Mey., Sond.) 5 a 
. Scarcely a foot high, differing from the preceding by pubescence and gies 
horizontal slightly keeled leaves. os A. Eee long he wide, ae rb neem 
shorter. Fl -6 together. Cal ine long, the segmen' hairy 
neath, ciliate. Petals sad d disc, &o. ai others. Capsule in . of 2-3 round bashed 
carpels, 3 lines long, tipped with 1 line-long straight horns. 
8. M. barbigera (B. & W.! 1 e. p. 195); geite globes: ; — and 
twigs spreading ; leaves sessile, opposite, cordate, acute, g. re > ce 
Sage Diosma barbigera, Linn. Sup. p. 155. Thunb.! Cap. p. 23% 
4am,! Eneycl. 2, p. 287. et 
Hap. Zwartland, Thunb.! Kardow Mt., Hesse, Zeyher 295. Dec. (Herb. — 
-» Wendl., Sond.) ae roe 
Erect, 1-2 feet high, flexuous, 2-3-chotomous ; branches mostly eee elancoas, 
twigs terete, yellowish, leafy. Leaves cordate at base and very pe equalling 
internodes or longer, pale green, and striate above, one nezved ant, Bis aie 
int Pata cane gland-dotted, 3-5 nee ee long, its lobes lanceolate, acute, 
keeled. Petals peed agony end, red, Jhite- bearded in the middle, Style thrice 
48 long as the calyx. 
Voven X, EMPLEURUM, Soland. 
lowers ; isc obsolete. Corolla 
fi i Calyx 4-cleft. Hgpogynous-disc obsole 
none, — Rhone 4; aan sided, emarginate, with a > elbow 
gland. Ovary of 1, rarely 2 carpels: style short; stigma elongate, cy. 
