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Has.—Dry ground, throughout the colony, and in Namaqualand: very common. 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A twiggy, glabrous, and glaucous bush, 1-3 feet high. 
Twigs compressed or angular, pale. Leaves varying from oblong to 
lanceolate and linear, quite entire, one-nerved, veinless, 1-2 inches 
long. Flowers in terminal, few-flowered cymes, dicecious ; petals white, 
sub-rotund. -Anthers oblong, extrorse, erect. Pollen 3-cornered. Cap- 
sule splitting through the centre, and almost always through the style, 
which has a greater or less tendency to be forked or bipartite; stigmas 
always two. 
This bush is usually referred to Onagrariee. In the Fl. Capensis 
(vol. ii., p. 807) I have referred it to Saxifragacee, on account of the 
cymoid inflorescence, imbricated (not twisted) petals, imperfectly 2-celled 
ovary, capsule splitting through the centre, and albuminous seeds, in 
all which characters it agrees better with Saxifragacee than with Ona- 
grariee. But I had omitted to examine the pollen, which is that of an 
Onagrad, and this character, I suppose, outweighs all the others cited. 
Fig. 1, flowering twig of a male plant; 2, of a female, with partly ripe capsules ; the 
natural size. Fig. 3, calyx of the male; 4, flower; 5, petal, 6, stamen, of the same; 
7, a style; 8, the same at a more advanced stage; 9, a seed; 10, embryo; all mag- 
nified. 
oe A a a 
123. CHORISTYLIS RHAMNOIDES, Harv. (Saxifragacea.) 
Ch. rhamnoides, Harv. in Hook, Lond. Jour. 1, p. 19; Fl. Cap. 2, 
p. 808. Baobotrys rufescens, E. Mey! in Hb. Drege ; Mesa palustris, 
Hochst. in pl. Krauss. 
Hax.—Near the Berlin Mission Station, Katberg, Rev. J. Brownlee! Dr. Pappe! 
Eckl. & Zey.! Between Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege! Natal, Krauss, (Herb. 
TC; D:) 
Descr.—A shrub, 7-8-10 feet high, leafy. Leaves 14-24 inches 
long, 1-2 inches wide, alternate, petiolate, ovate or oblong, acute, 
sharply serrate, strongly penninerved and paler beneath, glabrous or 
nearly so. Serratures gland-tipped. Flowers smali and green, in short, 
axillary paniculoid cymes. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals triangular, twice 
as long as broad, valvate in sestivation. Stamens in some flowers abor- 
tive; and then very small, with hispid anthers. Styles at first parallel 
and connate, then diverging. Capsule opening by a fissure between the 
two, diverging styles. ‘ 
Allied to Forgesia in character, but with very different foliage and 
flowers. Our plant has the general aspect of some Rhamnus. 
Fig. 1, a branchlet, in flower; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower, just opening ; 
3, two of the petals, three calyx lobes behind them, and three abortive stamens, 1n situ; 
4, a stamen; 5, one of the abortive stamens; 9%, connate styles from a flower; 7, a 
nearly ripe capsule; 8, divergent styles of the same; 9, cross section of ovary; all 
magnified. 
