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a broad white margin. Stipules much smaller than in other species of 
Bergia. 
‘A very pretty herbaceous perennial, not unworthy of cultivation in 
English gardens. Its flowers are larger than those of any 8. African 
species, and among the largest found in the order Elatinee. 
Fig. 1, part of a stem, in flower; natural size. Fig. 2, sepal; 3, petal; 4, circle of 
stamens, laid open; 5, Ovary 6, cross section of the same; 7, a seed; all magnified. 
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134. BOSCIA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Harv. ( Capparidea.) 
B. angustifolia: elaberrima ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, basi et 
apice attenuatis, subpetiolatis mucronulatis coriaceis venosis stipulatis ; 
stipulis minutis; pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque foliis brevio- 
ribus conferte racemosis plurifloris ; sepalis villoso-marginatis; floribus 
polyandris.— Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. addenda to vol. i., p. 19.* 
Has.—About Jackalsberg and Missionary Drift, Namaqualand, Andrew Wyley! 
(Herb. T. Cc. D.) 
Dzscr.—A virgate, slender, glabrous shrub, with pale yellowish- 
green twigs and leaves. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 14-2 lines wide, rigid, 
flat or-inrolled, scattered, spreading. Pedunc. 14_14 inches long, 
6_10 flowered; bracts at base of pedicels linear, deciduous, each with 
2 minute, persistent stipelle. Stipules tooth-like, minute. Calyx tube 
conical, densely glandular in the thr t. Sepals oblong, blunt, with 
woolly margins. Ovary on & long’stalk, oval. Fruit not seen. 
A remarkable shrub, which, though not uncommon in the above ha- 
bitats, appears to have escaped the notice of every collector except Mr. 
Wyley, who, whilst employed as geological surveyor in Namaqualand, 
discovered this and many other interesting plants, and kindly presented 
his specimens to the Dublin Herbarium. The wood is said to be hard, 
and close-grained. 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch; natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, two of the sepals, 
showing the bearded throat of the calyx; 4, cross section of the ovary ; 5, stigmata; all 
magnified. : 
135. SCHEPPERIA JUNCEA, DC. ( Capparidea.) 
S. juncea: DC. Prodr. 1, p. 245; Linnaa, 1, p- 255, t. iii.; Harv. 
& Sond. ? Fl. Cap. 1, p. 593 Cleome juncea, Sparm. Linn. Syst. p. 605 
(non. Th. Fl. Cap.); Cleome aphylla, Th. Fl. Cap. p. 497; Macromerum 
sunceum, Burch. Trav. 1, p- 388; Schep. aphylla et S. juncea, E. et 4 
Enum. 106, 107. 
Haz.—Karroo, beyond Hartequa’s Kloof, Thunberg- Great Fish River, Bergius. 
Gariep, Burchell. Swellendam, Clanwilliam, Graaf Reynet, and Uitenhage, E.§ Z./ ~ 
Drege, Krauss. Sneeuweberg, A. Wyley. Modderfontein, Namaqualand, Rev. Hi. 
Whitehead. Near Craddock, T. Cooper, No. 497. * (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A much-branched, rigid, nearly leafless shrub, 2-3 feet 
high. Branches alternate or rarely opposite, or fascicled, erecto-patent 
or spreading, often spinous at the points. Leaves none, except on the 
