12 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM, 
monogynia class. It grows to six feet high, and is full of long spines 
from the ground to the tops, and forms a large crown of crisped leaves, 
and reddish tubular flowers, tinged with yellow and green.”  Paters. 
Trav., p. 124. Tam indebted to Mr. A. Wyley for the leaf and flower- 
stem here figured, which allow us to refer to its proper place one of the 
most interesting of S. African plants. Two other species of Adenium 
are known; one found at Aden, in Arabia, the other in Senegal, 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, peduncle and flowers; the natural size. Fig. 8, calyx; 4, corolla 
laid open; 5, a stamen; 6, ovary and style; 7, cross section of the ovary; enlarged. 
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118. ROGERIA LONGIF LORA, Gay. (Pedalinee. ) 
R: longiflora; foliis petiolatis ovatis orbiculatisve repandis triner- 
viis, fauce corolle gracili conico-teretiuscula, fructu bispinoso. DC. 
Prodr. 9, p. 257, Martynia longiflora, Meerb. Ie. t.7. Willd. Sp. 3. 265. 
Martynia Capensis, Glox. 
mo Royen. Namaqualand, A. Wyley. Damaraland, Miss Elliott. (Herb. 
T. C.D; 
Derscr.— Stem robust, 1-2 feet long, diffuse, glabrous. eaves on 
long petioles, opposite, broadly ovate or sub-rotund, 2-24 inches long, 
13-2 inches wide, glabrous, the younger ones powdery on both sides, 
the older on the under side chiefly, the margin repand or angular, some- 
times inclining to be lobed. Corolla tube nearly 3 inches long, swollen 
on its upper side at base, narrowest in the middle, somewhat funnel- 
shaped at top; the limb spreading, unequally 5-lobed, lobes obtuse. 
Filaments of the fertile stamens hispid at base; the abortive stamen a 
small hispid bristle. 
A large, strong-growing, glabrous or glaucous annual, growing (per- 
haps commonly?) in the arid districts north of the Orange River; sel- 
dom collected, and wanting in many Herbaria. 
Fig. 1, flowering branch ; the natural size, Fig. 2, stamens; 3, calyx, ovary, and 
style; 4, a cross section of ovary; all enlarged. 
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119. CUSCUTA CASSYTHOIDES, Nees. ( Convolvulacea.) 
C. cassythoides; “ catle funiculari, floribus subsessilibus cymoso- 
spicatis, calycis globosi lobis orbiculatis concavis imbricatis verucosis 
corollz tubum latum breviter cylindricum includentibus, laciniis ovatis 
obtusis vix basi imbricatis erectis tubum squantibus, antheris cordato- 
ovatis ad faucem sessilibus, squamis tenuissimis apice truncato pauci- 
dentatis tubo brevioribus, stylo ovario ovato-conico [vix ] zequilongo, 
stigmate capitato bilobo, capsula ovata, seminibus ovato-triangulatis 
tenuiter veruculosis,” Engelm. in Trans. Acad. of S. Louis, U.8., vol. i., 
No. 3, p. 513.—Engelm. on Cuscuta, p. 63. 
Has.—aA parasite. Forests of Uitenhage, Drege, Zeyher Hangklipp, Mundt & 
Maire! Kariega Bush, H. Hutton! Near Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton ! Near Fort 
Bowker, H. Bowker. Palmict River, Natal, W. T. Gerrard, 1802, June. (Herb. 
