62 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Flowers in aterminal, scorpioid cyme, subsessile. Calya much enlarged 
after flowering, its rigid, erect lobes forming a crown to the fruit. 
Calyx tube obconical, ribbed, shaggy with fulvous, straight hairs; limb 
5-parted, the segments oblong, flat, blunt, foliaceous, 3-ribbed, much 
longer than the corolla. Petals 10, in two rows, those alternating with 
the calyx lobes roundish, very concave or cucullate: the others ligulate, 
sub-bidentate, angularly bent above the middle or sigmoid, small. Sfa- 
mens very numerous, the outer barren, with cordate bases; the inner 
fertile, on subulate filaments. Sty/e trifid. Ovules one in each cell. 
This is the only ZLoasaceous plant found in South Africa, and one of 
the very few inhabiting the old world. A Fissenia occurs in Arabia, 
but whether specifically the same as our plant, I cannot say. 
Fig. 1, Fissenta Capensis ; the natural size. Fig. 2, side view of the flower; 3, 
front view; 4, one of the outer petals; 5, an inner petal; 6, a fertile stamen; 7, a 
barren filament; 8, the adnate ovary, the calyx-limb removed; 9, section of the ovary ; 
magnified. 
XCIX. IXIANTHES RETZIOIDES, Benth. (Serophularinee.) 
I. Retzioides: Benth. ! in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 53; DC. 
Prod. x., p. 335, 
Has.—lIn the districts of Worcester and Tulbagh, Ecklon & Zeyher! River banks 
above the Tulbagh Waterfall, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A robust, densely leafy shrub, the younger parts more or 
less hairy, the older glabrous. Jnternodes $-3inchlong. Leaves whorled, 
3-4 in a whorl, 4-5 inches long, 3—4 lines wide in the middle, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, tapering much at base, distantly denticulate beyond 
the middle, hispidulous, becoming glabrous. Peduneles axillary, one 
flowered, much shorter than the leaves, bibracteate in the middle. 
Calyx rigid, veiny, bilabiate; the upper lip erect, sharply 3-toothed, 
lower spreading, bipartite, the segments ovato-lanceolate. Corolla with 
a very globose tube and patent 5-parted limb; the lobes obtuse, veiny. 
Stamens 2, perfect; rudiments of 3 others, Capsule splitting through 
the axis. Seeds numerous. 
I am indebted to Dr. Pappe for fine specimens of this handsome 
shrub, but am uncertain whether I have correctly restored the flower 
from its collapsed condition. It is well worth introducing to England. 
Fig. 1, Jvianthes Retzioides; the natural size. Fig. 2, calyx and peduncle; 3, 
back view of corolla; 4, stamens; 5, capsule; 6, a seed; the three latter figures mag- 
nified, 
C. MUSCI. (Mosses.) 
This plate has been drawn from sketches of Cape Mosses furnished 
to me by Mr. W. Mitten, of Hurst Pierpoint, Sussex, who has also 
forwarded the following descriptions, and on whose behalf, as well as 
