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it to rank as a separate genus. The foliage is peculiarly neat; the 
flowers are not remarkable for beauty. 
Fig. 1, Eumorphia Dregeana; the natural size. Fig, 2, a capitulum; 3, a disk- 
flower, with its subtending bract ; 4, a ray-flower; enlarged. 
LXXI. RAFNIA CRASSIFOLIA, Harv. (Leguminosae. ) 
R. crassifolia : ramis angulatis, foliis anguste-oblongis vel cuneato- 
oblongis obtusis mucronulatis crassis aveneis, pedunculis axillaribus 
unifloris basi bibracteatis post anthesin deflexis, calycis laciniis liberis 
tubo 2-3-plo longioribus carinam equantibus, quatuor superioribus lan- 
ceolato-acuminatis, legumine oblongo-cultrato basi cuneato. 2. axillaris, 
E. & Z.! 1192 (non Thunb.) R. lancea, ex parte, Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. 
Journ., vol, ii., p. 467. BR. angulata, litt. f., Thunb. ! in Herb. 
HAs.—Hottentot’s Holland, near Palmiet River and Klynrivier’sberge, Ecklon & 
Zeyher! Klein Howhoek, Zeyher! 2281. Pappe, No. 60. Simon’s Bay, Charles 
Wright ! 564. Capetown Hills, Dr. Hooker! Bowie! Dr. Alexander Prior! (Herb. 
T.C. D., &e.) 
Descr.—Stems several from the same root, 1-2 feet high, suberect, 
curved, subsimple, sharply angled, or somewhat winged along the 
angles, green or rufescent. Leaves alternate, about an inch apart, 14-2 
inches long, +-3 inch wide, oblong or cuneate-oblong, remarkably ob- 
tuse, with a very minute mucro, thick and somewhat fleshy in substance, 
with immersed veins, glaucous, cartilage-margined, the margin often 
reddened. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaves, jointed a little 
above the base, and there furnished with a pair of linear-oblong or li- 
near bracts, which are sometimes small, sometimes as long as the upper 
half of the peduncle. After flowering, the peduncles are deflexed at the 
joint. Calyx tube conical, much shorter than the limb, whose 4 upper 
segments are broadly lanceolate-acuminate, and more or less falcate, at 
all times standing apart from each other; the sinuses are very acute. 
Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. Legume minutely stipitate, cul- 
trate, cuneate at base, 1-14 inch long, pendulous. 
Not an uncommon species in the western districts, though hitherto 
confounded, as the above synonyms show, with other very distinct 
species. From 2. axillaris and R. angulata it differs in inflorescence, 
and foliage; and from 2#. Jancea, figured in our next plate, especially in 
the calyx, but also in foliage, bracts, &c. It appears to me to be a well- 
marked species: at least as distinct as any other in the genus Rafnia. 
Fig. 1, Rafnia crassifolia, and 2, a legume; both of the natural size. Fig. 3, a 
flower; 4, calyx, with partly enlarged ovary ; both magnified. 
LXXIT. RAFNIA LANCEA, DC. (Leguminose.) 
R. lancea : caule angulato, foliis lineari-oblongis vel oblongo-lanceo- 
latis acutis v. mucronatis coriaceis venulosis, pedunculis axillaribus uni- 
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