38 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
siliculis glabris.— 2. Mey.! in Herb. Drege. Sond. in Fl. Cap., vol. i. p. 84. 
Cleome virgata, Thunb, Fl. Cap., p. 498. 
Has.—Interior districts, Thunberg. Piquetberg, at Groene Valley, Oct.; Pike- 
nierkloof, Jan.; Giftberg, Nov., 1000-2500 f., Drege! Tulbagh, Ecklon and Zeyher. 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A slender, straggling, erect suffrutex, 2 feet high or more, 
glabrous in every part, and somewhat glaucous. Branches very erect; 
12-18 inches long, quite simple, laxly leafy in the lower half, ending 
upwards in a long, many-flowered raceme. Pedicels 2-3 lines long. 
Flowers purple or rosy, petals clawed, 7-8 lines long, narrow-obovate, 
erect. Sepals elliptical, concave, 3-nerved. Stamens 6, as long as 
the calyx; anthers linear-sagittate,"erect. Silicule ovate, indehiscent, 
2-celled, with a solitary seed in each cell; the valves convex, with 
strongly raised ridges radiating from the keeled centre : style beak-like, 
subulate, as long as the valves. 
A graceful plant, with the general habit of Brachycarpea varians, 
from which it is readily known by its strongly ridged, not didymous 
silicule, and the different structure of its seeds, 
Fig. 1, Cycloptychis virgata, and branch; natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 8,a petal; 
4, stamens and pistil in situ; 5, pistil, the stamens removed; 6, ripe silicule ; the latter 
figures more or less magnified. 
as 
LX. CADABA NATALENSIS, Sond. ( Capparidee.) 
C. Natalensis : inermis, apetala, foliis petiolatis oblongis obovato- 
oblongisve obtusis v. emarginatis mucronulatis coriaceis glabris, floribus 
axillaribus longe pedunculatis, sepalis exterioribus navicularibus, inte- 
rioribus planis late ovatis ciliolatis acutis, staminibus 4—6, nectario lage- 
niformi collo incurvo hine fisso ore denticulato, bacca cylindracea elon- 
gata. Sond. in Linn., vol. xxiil. p. 8. Fl. Cap., 1. p. 59. 
Has.—Port Natal, Gueinzivs. In thickets, by river banks, Doorns Spruit, 1800 
feet, rare, J. Sanderson! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A straggling, unarmed, divaricately-branched, glabrous 
shrub, with pale ash-coloured bark ; the older branches rather naked and 
knotty ; twigs virgate. Petzoles 2-4 lines long, with woolly pubescence 
along the upper edge; /eaves 1-14 inch long, 4-6 lines wide, narrow- 
obovate or oblong, acute at base, obtuse but miucronulate at the extre- 
mity, midribbed, but without conspicuous veins, coriaceous, opaque, 
drying a pale, yellowish-green. Peduncles axillary, equalling the leaves, 
or longer, filiform, spreading or deflexed. Sepals minutely puberulous 
externally ; the outer pair very concave or boat-shaped; the inner flat, 
thin in substance, veiny, ciliolate, broadly ovate. Staminal-tube an 
inch long, bearing 4, 5, or 6 stamens; anthers deciduous. Stipe of the 
ovary gradually lengthening after anthesis, 1-14 inch long. Nectary 
shaped like a chemist’s ‘‘ retort,” the neck strongly bent back, slit along 
the upper edges, and toothed at the extremity. Unripe fruit only seen. 
