558 FLORA OF SOUTA AFRICA. 
subrhombeo-ovatis, superioribus lanceolatis; stipulis herba- 
ceis, lanceolatis, fimbriato-serratis; floribus masculis termi- ` 
nalibus et in summis axillis aggregatis breviter pedicellatis, 
(foemineis ignotis). 
In arenis maritimis circa sinum Hout Bay (III. E. b.) Sept. 
1838. Krauss, n. 1190. 
A slender plant, about ! foot high; leaves 6-8 lines long, 
with a petiole of nearly the same length, or, especially in the 
superior ones, shorter; inferior leaves 3-5 lines broad, and 
frequently scarcely longer; they are as variable in form as in 
size, being now cuneato-attenuate and acute at both ends, so 
as to approach the rhomboidal form, and now rounded at the 
base, or even at both ends, or nearly orbicular, whilst others, 
particularly the upper ones, are truly lanceolate, and the 
uppermost even linear. Their teeth are perfectly equal, small 
but very acute, and more or less evidently ciliato-mucronate. 
Stipule 2-3 lines long, 1 line broad, with thin serratures or 
cilia of nearly 1 line length, all along their margins. Flowers 
a little larger and more crowded than in the two preceding 
species. 
4. M. Caffra, n. sp.; glaberrima, caulibus (ramisve ?) herba- 
ceis, rectis, articulatis, simplicibus ; foliis oppositis v. terna- 
tim verticillatis, petiolatis, ovatis, acuminatis, dense crenato- 
dentatis, ad basin limbi superne glandulas nonnullas fili- 
formes minutas gerentibus; stipulis minutis, lacero-filiformi- 
bus; racemis (masculis) terminalibus, umbellato-aggregatis, 
pedunculatis, subaphyllis, erectis, interruptis, floribus aggre- 
gatis ineequaliter pedicellatis, (Foemina ignota). 
.. a. brevipes, foliis oppositis aut ternis, obtusiusculis, petiolo 4 
multo longioribus, infimis abbreviatis suborbiculatis basi 
rotundato-subcordatis, caule levi, obsolete lineato. a 
Inter arundines prope flum. Umlaas, Port Natal. (V. c) 
Dec. 1839. Krauss, n. 156. 
P. longipes, folis oppositis, longe attenuato-acuminatis 
petiolo vix v. parum longioribus, basi subtruncatis, caule 
acutiuscule sulcato-lineato. 
