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very young twigs; then scale-like, acute, 1 line long. Racemes shortly 
corymbose, lateral. Flowers red or yellowish. Peduncles clammy. 
Sepals unequal, the back and front sepal keeled, the latter ovate, much 
larger: lateral sepals flat, ovate, acute, Stamens mostly 8. Fruit a 
sausage-shaped berry, 14_2 inches long, as thick as a goose-quill, viscid, 
densely glandular, and strongly scented. 
Though neither new nor very uncommon, I have thought this shrub 
worth figuring, on account of its rush-like, naked stems and branches, 
and its singularly formed flowers. These seem to be commonly red, 
but are said to vary to yellow. Their viscid glandular pubescence has 
the peculiar smell so characteristic of most of the Capparidee, and which 
is still more pungent in the fleshy fruit of this bush. 
Fig. 1, flowering branches; natural size. Fig. 2, the four sepals, in position; 3, 
the stamens and stipitate ovary, with the hoodlike nectary at base of the staminal 
column; 4, an anther; all magnified. 
136. DIANTHERA BURCHELLIANA, KL ( Capparidee.) 
D. Burchelliana: glauca, caule terete striato aculcis innocuis re- 
flexis exasperato, foliis inferioribus longe-petiolatis 7-foliolatis, superio- 
ribus brevius-petiolatis 3-5 foliolatis, foliolis angustissime linearibus 
obtusis; petalis ineequalibus obovatis, staminibus fertilibus 2, stamino- 
diis 6 brevioribus appendicula conico-oblonga coronatis, siliquis linea- 
ribus pendulis glabris.—A7. in Peters, Mozamb. Bot., p. 161, in notes 
Sond. in Fl. Cap. 1, p. 58; Cleome diandra, Burch. Trav. 1, p. 548; 
Polunisia dianthera, DC. Prodr. i, p. 242. 
Haz.—Gattikamma, Burchell. Stony hills at Zwartbulletje and at Gamke River, 
Drege. Namaqualand, A. Wyley. Near Brak River, Craddock, T. Cooper, No. 583. 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A tall, straggling annual, 1-3 feet high; slender, the stem 
more or less sprinkled with rigid, but blunt, recurved bristles. Branches 
erect, striate. Leaflets 1-11 inch long, 1 line wide. Flowers rosy ? 
Pods 2-21 inches long, 14 line wide; at first suberect, then pendulous. 
Ur. Cooper’s specimens have very few of the reflexed bristles on the 
stem, but do not otherwise differ, 
Fig. 1, branch in flower; the natural size, Fig. 2, a sepal; 3, one of the larger, 
and 4, one of the smaller petals; 5, a stamen; 6, a staminodium 3 7, top of the latter; 
all magnified. 
137, 188. DOMBEYA BURGESSLA, Gerr. (Byttneriacee.) 
D. Burgessie: ramulis petiolis pedunculisque dense villosis, foliis 
longissime pedunculatis basi cordatis breviter et obtuse 3—5-lobatis 
utrinque molliter villoso-tomentosis, pedunculis petiolum equantibus 
cymoso-corymbosis multifloris, bracteis . . . . ? sepalis lanceolatis acu- 
se villosis, ovario tomentoso.—Harv. iin Fil. Cap., vol. ii., Suppl., 
p. 590, 
Has.—Zululand, M. J. M‘Ken. Klip River. Natal, W. 7. Gerrard. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
