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lanceolate limb. Fertile stamens exserted, glabrous: Staminodia halt 
as long as the petals, linear-lanceolate, ciliolate, tipped with a green 
gland. Ovary and style glabrous. 
After having so recently described 100 species of Agathosma, in 
‘Flora Capensis,” it is certainly a surprise to Dr. Sonder and myself to 
receive, from the well trodden hills about Grahamstown a species dif- 
fering from any of those previously known to us. Dr. Sonder, who 
has carefully compared it with those in his herbarium, tells me that, 
while it agrees in the short claws of its petals with A. nigra and A. 
chortophila, torming with them a passage from Ewagathosma to Bar- 
osmopetale, it differs by other essential characters from these and all 
others known to him. It is with pleasure, therefore, that we give it 
the name of our exéellent correspondent, Mr. Mac Owan, who is dili- 
gently investigating the plants of the Eastern Frontier, and from whom 
much more may be expected. 
Fig. 1, Flowering branch; the natural size. Fig. 2, a leaf; 3, a flower; 4, petal ; 
5, staminodium ; 6, stamen; 7, ovary and style; variously magnified. 
166. HELIOPHILA SCANDENS, Harv. (Crucifer@.) 
H. (Lanceolaria) scandens: glaberrima; caule suffruticoso scan- 
denti, foliis lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis in petiolo brevi attenuatis 
sub-penninerviis, racemo brevi corymbuloso, pedicellis calyce longiori- 
bus, petalis oblongo-obovatis, filamentis simplicibus, siliculis monosper- 
mis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis planis tenuiter venulosis. 
Has.—Back Beach, in shady places, among shrubs, D’Urban, Natal, Jf J. MM‘ Ken, 
Aug., 1862. Natal, 7. Cooper, 1268. (Herb. T. 05 
Descr.—‘* Stem 6-8 fect long, climbing through bushes,” voluble. 
Leaves 13-2 inches long, {-} inch wide, lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, 
midribbed and 
somewhat glaucous, coriaceous, with immersed veins, c 
penninerved. Raceme 10-15-flowered, corymbose at first, lengthening in 
fruit. Pedicels slender, } inch long. Flowers white or pinkish. Pods 
oblong, or lanceolate-oblong, 1-14 inch long, 4 lines wide, flattened, the 
valves delicately veiny. Seeds solitary. nen 
A very elegant and distinctly marked species of Heliophila, of the 
section ‘ Lanceolaria,” differing from all other known species of the 
genus, and from most Crucifere, by its twining stems. My first speci- 
mens were received from Mr. M‘Ken, who finds it in several spots near 
D’ Urban : those from Mr. Cooper come probably from the same locality. 
Fig. 1, flowering apex ofstem; 2, pods; the natural size. Fig. 3, a sepal; 4, petal ; 
5, stamens, in position, surrounding ovary ; 6, a stamen ; 7, ovary; magnified. 
167. MODECCA HASTATA, Harv. (Passtflorea.) 
M. hastata: caule fruticoso flexuoso scandente striato; foliis pe- 
tiolatis hastatis cordatisve acutis coriaceis glabris glaucescentibus basi 
