CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 7 
X. DISCOCAPNOS MUN DTI, Ch. & Schl. (Fumariacee.) 
D. Mundtii: Cham. § Schl. in Linn., vol.i., p. 569; EB. §& Z., En., 
No. 24; Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap., vol. i., p. 18 (var. a, Mundti?). 
Has.—Among shrubs. Hills round Capetown, Mundt § Maire. Near the Waterfall, 
Devil's Mt., Ecklon & Zeyher. Camp's Bay, W. H. H. 
Descr.—oot annual. Stems weak and straggling, succulent, 1-2 
feet long, angular, glabrous. Leaves 2-3 inches apart, on long petioles, 
bi-tripinnately parted ; the pinne alternate, tripartite, or pinnate, with 
broadly cuneate, deeply cut leaflets, glaucous on the under side. Ra- 
cemes opposite the leaves, at length 3-4 inches long, several flowered. 
Flowers minute, pale, with dark-purple tips. Petals connivent at the 
points, the posterior one with a blunt, saccate spur of nearly its own 
length. Fruits 1-14 lines diameter, minutely roughened on the dise. 
Fig. 1, Discocapnos Mundtii, var. a; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, its pos- 
terior petal; 4, one parcel of stamens; 5, the fruit. These figures magnified. 
XI. PENTARRHINUM INSIPIDUM, E. Mey. ( Asclepiadacee.) 
P. insipidum: ramulis bifariam puberulis, foliis cordatis acutis 
basi 5-7 nerviis, pedunculis folium subequantibus superantibusque 
breviter racemosis, coronze staminez foliolis inferne compressis superne 
processu rostrato instructis,—Z. Mey. Com. Drege, p. 200; Dne. in DC. 
Prod. 8, p. 553; Cynanchum foliis cordato-sagittatis fructu cucumerino, 
Burm. Pl. Rar. Afr., p. 38, t. 16, f. 2. sd 
Has.—Near Enon; Uitenhage, Drege, Dr. Alexander Prior ; also at Klein Winter- 
hoek, 800 ft., aud Zondagrivier, near Blaauwekraus, 1700 feet, Drege. Zooloo Country, 
Miss Owen. (Herb. T. C. D,) 
Derscr.—Stem terete, pale, climbing through bushes ; branches twin- 
ing, tapering to a thread-like end, with a line of minute hairs at each 
side. eaves distant, 2-4 inches apart, opposite, on long, slender pe- 
tioles, cordate, acute or acuminate, with a deep, basal, rounded sinus 
and rounded lobes, membranaceous, glabrous, or very minutely pube- 
rulous, especially on the ribs. Racemes dense, subcorymbose, downy; 
pedicels twice or thrice as long as the flowers; bracts subulate, decidu- 
ous. Flowers green, or dull greenish brown or livid purple. Corolla 
reflexed. Follicles ovate-oblong, rough with short tubercles, solitary or 
in pairs. 
the young pods, which are tasteless, are eaten by the Hottentots. 
They are shaped like cucumbers. 
Fig. 1, Pentarrhinum insipidum, young branch. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, two of the 
segments of the corona staminea, in different aspects; 4, the anthers surrounding the 
stigma; 5, stigma; 6, a pair of pollen-masses. The latter figures more or less magni- 
