46 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM, 
floris apice setaceo-bracteolatis, calycis laciniis superioribus conniventi- 
bus per paria connatis acuminatis carina multo brevioribus, infima 
setacea, legumine cultrato basi attenuato £. §& Z./ Enum. 1194. Benth. ! 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. ii., p. 467, ex parte. Oedmannia lancea, 
Thunb. ! Fl. Cap., p. 561. 
Has.—South Africa, Thunberg! Dr. Thom! Sandy places, on the flats near Tiger- 
berg, Cape District; also at Klynrivier, Caledon, Ecklon & Zeyher! Stellenbosch and the 
Paarl, Drege ! Between Vogelsvalley and Tulbagh’s Kloof, Dr. Pappe /(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A small shrub, 6-12 inches high, erect or ascending, sim- 
ple or slightly branched; the branches angular, but not very sharp- 
edged. Leaves densely crowded, about aquarter ofan inch apart, 1-2 inches 
long, }-4 inch wide, varying in shape from linear-oblong to lanceolate, 
acute or subobtuse, and mucronate, the uppermost sometimes acuminate, 
all coriaceous, but not fleshy, with more or less obvious venation, turn- 
ing black in drying. Cartilaginous margin very narrow. Peduncles 
from the axils of the uppermost leaves, crowded toward the ends of the 
branches, or sub-corymbose, one-flowered, 1-14 inch long, jointed near 
the summit, and there furnished with a pair of minute, bristle-shaped 
bracts. Calyx tube conical, its upper segments connate in opposite 
pairs, for half their length or more; each pair of segments forming a 
deeply bifid, triangular lobe of a trifid calyx. Corolla nearly twice as 
long as the calyx, bright yellow, turning blackish-brown in drying. 
Legumé deflexed, narrow, tapering much at base into a short stipe. 
This is readily known from the preceding and all other species of 
Rafnia by the arrangement and connation of the calyx segments. The 
divisions between the two posterior segments and between the lateral 
and anterior are deeply cut, but those between the posterior and lateral 
are twice as shallow ; consequently, these appear as if connate for half 
their length. On this character Thunberg proposed his ‘‘ Oedmannia ;” 
but as there is nothing else to separate Ocdmannia from Rafnia, with 
which the habit perfectly agrees, De Candolle has very properly united 
its only species—the present plant—to the latter genus. 
Fig. 1, Rafnia lancea ; the natural size, Fig. 2, a flower; 3, the calyx, and sta- 
mens; 4, vexillum; 5, an ala; 6, carina; all magnified. 
XXIII. HIBISCUS PUSILLUS, Thunb. (Malvacee.) 
H. pusillus: humilis, hispidus v. glabriusculus, caulibus decumben- 
tibus subsimplicibus, foliis breve-petiolatis polymorphis (ovatis v. tri- 
cuspidatis trilobisve vel tripartitis) argute et grosse serratis rigidis sub- 
glabris, nervis venulisque elevatis reticulatis, stipulis setaceo-subulatis 
patentibus, pedunculis axillaribus folia superantibus sub-flore articulatis, 
involucello 10-phyllo foliolis subulatis calyee duplo brevioribus, calycis 
laciniis lanceolato-acuminatis stellato-pubescentibus, capsulis glabris, 
seminibus lanatis. Thunb. Fl. Cap., p. 550. Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 
vol. i., p. 175. HL. gossypinus, E. & Z.! 307, non Thunb. H. serratus, 
E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
