50 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Branches virgate, rugulose. eaves scattered, patent, acicular-trique- 
trous, 6-12 lines long, 14 line in diameter, scabrous at the margin and 
keel, acute, the younger hair-pointed, glabrous, dull dark green, with- 
out pellucid dots. lowers axillary, very minute, solitary ; pedicels 
1-14 line long, bibracteate at base, ending in the conical base of the 
calyx. Sepals 4, ovate, cuspidate, somewhat keeled. Petals scarcely 
longer than the sepals, concave, very obtuse, broadly ovate or subro- 
tund. Stamens (in the male flowers) opposite the sepals, and nearly as 
long. Ovarynot seen. Capsule brown, 24 lines long, opening laterally; 
seed not examined. Whole plant glabrous. 
With many of the technical characters of Emplewrum this little 
plant has the habit of a Muraltia. It wants the glandular dots so 
general in Rutacez; and the disc in the male flower is so large and 
broad as to resemble that of a Celastrinea, to which Order, but for the 
uni-carpellary ovary, it might be referred. 
Fig. 1, Empleuridium juniperinum ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a male flower on its 
pedicel ; 3, front view of a male flower; 4, a stamen; magnified. Fig. 5, two capsules, 
in situ, the natural size. Fig. 6, capsule on its pedicel; 7, front view of an open cap- 
sule, showing the seed; magnified. 
LXXVIII. SYLITRA BIFLORA, E, Mey. (Leguminose.) 
S. biflora: ZL. Mey., Comm. Drege, p. 114. 
Has.—Bitter water, near Gamke River, 2300 f., Drege! (Herb. Benth.) 
Descr.—A virgate perennial. Stems 12-16 inches high} terete, slen- 
der, thinly canescent, slightly branched; branches virgate, flexuous. 
Leaves nearly an inch apart; petiole 1-2 lines long, articulated at the 
summit, with a terminal, linear-lanceolate leaflet, 14-2 inches long, 
2 lines wide, acute at each end, glabrous above, minutely canescent be~ 
neath, obliquely striate. Stipules setaceo-subulate, equalling the petiole. 
Flowers in axillary pairs, on pedicels not a line long. Calyx 14 lines 
long, silky, with 5 sharp teeth, the two upper approaching in a pair, 
the lowest rather longest. Corolla not twice as long as the calyx. 
Ovary 4-ovuled. Legume oblong, 14 inch long, 4} inch wide, strongly 
compressed, thickened at the sutures, pubescent, membranous, and pale. 
A remarkable plant, in many respects similar to Lessertia, but hay- 
ing very different foliage and inflorescence. 
Fig. 1, Sylitra biflora ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, the vexillum; 4, the 
ale and carina; 5, the calyx laid open; 6, the staminal tube; 7, the ovary ; all mag- 
nified. 
LXXIX. RHYNCHOSIA PINNATA, Harv. (Leguminose.) 
R. pinnata: prostrata, puberula ; foliis pinnatis bi-trijugis, foliolis 
brevissime petiolatis rhomboideo-ovatis vy. elliptico-oblongis acutis pu- 
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