250 Sir C. P. Thunberg's Description of such Species of Chironia 
Floret Januario, Februario. 
Caulis herbaceus, totus glaber, mox a radice ramosus. 
Rami subradicales, plures, elongate subsimplices, raro superne 
divisi, laxi, flexuoso-erecti, subtetragoni, pedales. 
Folia opposita, sessilia, ovata, obtusiuscula, Integra ; inferne ag- 
gregata, pollicaria; superne remotissima; suprema lanceolata. 
Flores in ramis terminales, solitarii, purpurei. 
Calycis laciniae lanceolatae, elongato-subulatae, erectae, longitudine 
tubi corollae. 
Differt a Chironia trinervia : 
1. foliis obtusioribus. 
2. ramis elongatis. 
3. calycis apice subsetaceo. 
CHIRONIA frutescens. 
Ch. foliis lanceolatis tomentosis, caule fruticoso. 
Chironia frutescens. Linn. Syst. Vegetal, xiv. p. 229- per Gmelin. 
p. 392. Spec. Plant, p. 273. per Willden. p. 1070. Thunb. Pro- 
drom. Plant. Cap. p. 35. 
Crescit in oris maritimis Promontorii Bonae Spei Africes, in littore 
infra Leuwekopp, in montibus Hottentots Holland et alibi 
vulgaris. 
Floret ab Augusto in Decembris usque mensem. 
Radix perennis. 
Caulis fruticosus, totus cinereo-tomentosus, erectus, subangulatus, 
ramosus, pedalis et ultra. 
Rami lignosi, obsolete tetragoni, alterni, foliis deciduis annidati, 
ramulosi. 
Ramuli superne aggregati, fastigiati. 
Folia decussatim opposita, sessilia, lanceolata, obtusa cum acu- 
mine, integerrima, carnosa, frequentissima, erecta, subtomen- 
tosa, pollicaria vel paulo longiora. 
Flores 
