Helinus. | RHAMNE& (Sond.) 479 
1. H. ovata (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege) ; branches somewhat angu- 
lar ; branchlets spreading, pubescent, at length smooth ; tendrils spiral ; 
leaves ovate or elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, sub-cordate at base; cymes 
about the length of the peduncles; flowers smooth. Rhamnus mysta- 
conus Art. Kew. 1. p. 266. Willemetia scandens, E. & Z.! 996. 
Var. 8. rotundifolia; leaves orbicular (1 inch long and wide). 
Has. Keiskamma, Keyriver and Gekau, Drege! Zuurberge (Uitenh.), Katriver, 
near Philipstown and in Caffraria, E. & Z.! Dornkop, Tolesne pmattas Zeyh.! 
317. Port Natal, Gueinzius, 400, Krauss. ; var 8. Port Natal, Gueinzius, 399. 
Nov.—April. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Flowering branches divaricate, 3-4 inches long. Petioles in sterile branches 
6-8 lines, in flowering branchlets 2-3 lines long. Upper leaves 1}-2 inches long, 
12-15 lines wide, ciliate or pubescent ; lower ones 1 inch long, or shorter, pubes- 
cent or glabrous. Peduncles 6-9 lines long ; pedicels 2-3 lines long, in fruit longer. 
arut the size of a pea, quite smooth, with a large area. Seeds convex-trigonous, 
shining. 
I-88 VI. PHYLICA, L. 
Calyx obconical, urceolate or cylindrical, 5-cleft, its limb persistent. 
Petals wanting or bristle-like, or cucullate. Stamens 5, filaments very 
short, anthers ovate or kidney-shaped, 2-celled or 1-celled. Disc more 
or less distinct. Ovary inferior or adnate to the tube of the calyx, 
3-celled. Style simple, stigma 3-lobed or 3-toothed, in some entire. 
Fruit inferior, crowned by the permanent calyx, and marked above by 
a small or large areola, 3-coccous. Seeds solitary, erect, with a thick, 
fleshy umbilicus ; albumen fleshy ; embryo flat. Z. Gen. n. 266. Lam. 
ul. t. 127. Trichocephalus, Phylica, and Soulangia Brogn. l.c. t. 6, i. ti. 
ut. Walpersia, Reiss. Petalopogon, Reiss. Pylanthus, Reiss, Endl. Gen. 
5036-5740. 
Small, much branched shrubs, with alternate, crowded, simple, quite entire, ovate, 
lanceolate or linear leaves and small flowers.— Name from pvAdukos, leafy. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
I. Leaves stipulate Soe 
II. Leaves without stipules : 
* A. Flowers mostly pedicellate, in the axilla of leafy brac- 
tex, solitary, panicled, spiked orin heads. Bracteole 
wanting. Calyx short, campanulate, obconical or sub- 
tubular. Petals —- Anthers 1-celled. Area 
mostly as large as the fruit. . : 
seo Bren ig cordate-ovate, heads short-stalked ... (2) buxifolia. = A 
leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; racemes panicled... (3) paniculata. 
leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate ; axillary loose ra- : 
cemes Ae a ene pa de Ae sass ... (4) oleoides. 
leaves linear lanceolate ; flowers so -or in loose ae 
ravenna a a ND rosmarinifolia. 
leaves linear sub-imbricate; spikes elongated with 
very long foliaceous bracts =... +. +e) seo (13) ambigua. 
leaves lanceolate spreading ; flowers longer than the 
bractew, in lax terminal racemes ... .-. -.. =. (9) lutescens. 
leaves lanceolate spreading ; flowers shorter than the oe 
ae. 
. inear spreading ; flowers rac- oo 
qe 3 seed (12) villosa, 
leaves linear sub-imbricate; racemes capitate ... ... (14) Willdenowiana. | 
(1) stipularis. =X 
