Phylica.] RHAMNE® (Sond.) 485 
Shrub, 1-2 feet high, known by the very numerous, filiform, fastigiate branches, 
Leaves about 3 lines long, £ line wide, the uppermost 1 line long. Racemes 3-1 
inch long, in the upper twigs often paniculate. Pedicels spreading, 1-1} lines, calyx 
_ 1 line long, campanulate, segments acute. 
_ 10. P. axillaris (Lam.! ill. n. 2615) ; twigs pubescent; leaves spread- 
ing, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, young ones hairy, old ones 
smooth, shining above, flattish, tomentose beneath, with revolute mar- 
gins ; flowers pedicellate, axillary, solitary, racemose, shorter than the 
leafy bractea; calyx campanulate, hirsute. Spreng. Berl. Mag. viii. p. 
104. t, 8.74. Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. v. p. 485. DC. lec.p. 36. Soul- 
angia axillaris, Brogn. l. c. p. 70. P. rosmarinifolia, Willd. Herb. fol. 
4604. fol. 2. H. & Z.! 1036. ex pte. 
Var, 6. hirsuta ; twigs sub-hirsute ; leaves appressed, pubescent, the 
lower at length glabrate ; flowers shorter than the foliaceous bractez. 
P. hirsuta, Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 202. Soulangia hirsuta, L.d& Z.! 1041. 
Var. y. pedicellaris; flowers sometimes larger, on longer pedicels, 
of the length of the foliaceous bractea. 
Var. 6. parvifolia; leaves and flowers twice smaller. Drege, 6757. 
Var, «. glabrata; leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth. P. pinea, Thunb./ 
Jl. cap. p. 201. ex pte. 
Has. Hills near Port Elizabeth, Krakakamma and Van Staadensrivier, Uit., 2. 
& Z.! Niven, Drege, 6758 and 6768. Zeyh. 2218 and 2222. Hassaquaskloof, Drege. 
Feb.Jul. (Herb., Thunb., Holm., Lam., Willd., Wendl., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Shrub, 1 or more feet high. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, 4-6 lines long, 
1 line wide, rarely longer, in var. 5. shorter, obtuse or sub-cordate at base, smooth 
or hairy, or sub-villous above. Raceme ovate, about 6 lines long, at length lax, inch 
long or longer. Flowers white. Pedicels 1-4 lines long. Calyx campanulate, seg- 
ments acute, ferruginous on the inside. Capsule ovate-globose, the size of a pea; 
area as large as the capsule or smaller. 
li. = urea (Sond.) ; twigs pubescent; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
called cone nak ea fae Eboth and shining above, tomen- 
tose beneath, with revolute margins; flowers on short pedicels, col- 
lected in a terminal, many-flowered head ; calyx campanulate, tomen- 
tose. P. rosmarinifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 849. Herb. Willd. n. 4606. 
fol. 1. Soulangia rubra, Bot. Reg. t. 1498. exc. synon. 
Var. 8. reclinata; leaves reclinate, silky above, bearded at the apex ; 
flower stalk equalling the calyx. P. reclinata, Wendl. collect. 2 p. 49. t. 
56. &.& Sch. l.c. p. 485. 
Has. Cape, Niven; var. 8. cultivated in Herrenhausen Bot. Gard. (Herb., 
Willd., Wendl., Sond. 3 
‘Very Snir to the prsein ing. but the flowers are collected in a head and longer 
than the bractes ; perhaps a variety. Leaves 6 lines long. Calyx whitish tomen- 
tose, limb ferruginous or purple on the inside. 
12. P. villosa (Thunb. ! fl. cap. p. 202); twigs minutely pubescent ; 
leaves spreading, mostly secundate, linear, acute, convex above, sulcate 
and tomentose beneath, with recurved margins, lower ones glabrous, _ 
pillate-punctate, upper ones villous ; flowers axillary, solitary, short 
than the foliaceous bractew, disposed in a lax or dense, oblong-raceme ; 
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