rr 
tal margins. Asterocarpus litoralis, HE. § Z.! 957. 
long, in var. a. not unlike that of P. tricuspidatus, but all the wings or 
462 | CELASTRINE& (Sond.) [ Pterocelastrus. 
2. P. litoralis (Walp. Rep. 1. p. 535); leaves ovate or obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, narrow at base, veinless ; cyme sub-sessile, few flowered ; cap- 
sule 3 winged, the wings spreading, flat, bipartite or bifid, with horizon- 
Has. Sand hills near Port Elizabeth, £.¢ Z.! July. (Herb. Sond.) «ee 
Very like the preceding, and only differing in the capsule, which with the wings 1s 
4 lines long ; the wings 2 lines wide at base, flat, and not trigonous with a raised 
keel. Leaves, flowers, and seeds as in the preceding. 
2. Panicle cymose, shortly pedunculate, many flowered. (Sp. 3-5.) 
8. P. variabilis (Sond,) ; leaves elliptical, obovate, or obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, sub-emarginate, narrowed at base,.veinless or somewhat vey ; 
panicle 4 times as short as the leaf; capsule 3 winged, wings ovate, = 
mostly bifid, the lobes acute or obtuse, with vertical margins. De oa | 
Var. «. acutilobus ; wings or their lobes ovate or acuminate. Aster. 
nervosus, H.& Z.! 959. Pter. nervosus, Walp. l. c. 
Var. 8. obtusilobus ; lobes of the wings broad, obtuse. A. arboreus, —— 
E. & Z.! 960. Pt. arboreus, Walp. 1. ¢. 
Var. y. armatus ; lobes of the wings wide, toothed oy lacerate, as _ 
well as the capsules here and there furnished with narrow appendages. 
Ast. tetrapterus, EZ. & Z.! 962. Pt. tetrapterus, Wapl.t:c. ee Pde 
Has. In woods. Var. a. in Grootvadersbosch and Wagenmakers. Bosch, EG 21 ee 
Mundt! Pappe! Drege, 6727. Zey. 2194. B. Zwartkops River, Bothasberg. and om 
Howison’s Poort, L. & Z./ Pappe, Hutton, Zey. 2197. Drege, 6726. ¥- om 
and Kat River, Z.4@Z.! Oct.-Nov. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 4 
A tree, 15-20 f. high. Leaves 1}~4 inches long, either quite veinless, or strongly 
veined, the veins diverging, arching within the flat or revolute margin. Petiole 2-4 
lines long. Panicle } stn haa common peduncle 2 lines long, branches forked, 
spreading, bracteolate ; ultimate pedicels 1 line long. Flowers white. @aps.’ oor 
bifid, the third sometimes entire. The lobes in var: 8. are very divergent, ‘aS wide 
as the cells of the capsule, mostly obtuse, occasionally acutely toothed, and at the 
base, as on the capsule itself, furnished with short wing-like appendages ; in 7. wide 
lobes are intermixed with narrower, the margin sharply toothed or. te, and as 
well as the capsule itself armed with numerous appendages or horns. 7 
~ 
es as long as the petiole, rarely longer, fy 
Bod, specie moialinc than in the a 
base, so that the capsule is 
4-wikged ; lobes of the wings di- | 
