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Hazs.—N. W. districts and Namaqualand, Levaillant, E. and Z.! Drege! A. Wyley! 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.—Stems slender, two or more feet high, striate, flexuous, 
glaucous and glabrous, much branched; the branches spreading. Leaves 
scattered, often few, very broadly cuneate, either round-topped, emargi- 
nate or obcordate, tapering at base into a short petiole, the lower about 
4-3 inch long, the upper smaller and narrower, all glaucous, and more 
or less coated with calcareous granules. Spzkes very dense, terminal, 
the flowers spreading, and at length deflexed, on very short pedicels. 
Bracts subulate, recurved, longer than the pedicel. Calyx-lobes 
ovate, suddenly acuminate, strongly cross-wrinkled and ridged. Corolla- 
lobes cuneate, with sharp lateral angles, and an arcuate apex, mucro- 
nate in the centre. 
An old and well-known plant, but which has not been figured in the 
present century, and which recommends itself to notice by its elegance ; 
particularly by the ridges on the lobes of the 5-angle-winged calyx, and 
the curious form of the corolla-lobes. It appears to be not uncommon 
in the arid regions of Little Namaqualand. A second species of Vogelia 
is found in North Africa, anda third in India. There have been at least 
three Vocets, distinguished by their explorations in Africa, and all well 
worthy of grateful commemoration. 
Fic. 1, branch in flower; the natural size. Fig. 2, one of the calyx lobes; 3, the 
corolla; 4, segment of the corolla, and 5, a stamen opposing it; 6, ovary, style, and 
stigmas; 7, one of the stigmas; 8, an ovule, pendulous from its cord; all magnified. 
199. OSYRIDOCARPUS NATALENSIS, A. DC. (Santalacee.) 
O. Natalensis; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, floribus 1-3 brevissime 
pedicellatis, gibbis callosis 5 externe supra basin perigonii. A. DC. in 
DC. Prodr., vol. xiv. p. 635 Thesium macrocarpum, E. Mey! in herb. 
Drege. 
Has.—Eastern Frontier, Caffraria and Natal, near Kachu, Drege! Beanfort and 
Winterberg, Mrs. F. W. Barber! K. Williamstown, Rev. J. Brownlee! Kreili’s 
Country, H. Bowker! 270. Berea, near D’Urban, Natal, M. J. M‘Ken! Dr. Suther- 
land! T. Cooper, 30, 1188. Featherstone’s Kloof, near Grahamstown, P. Mae Owan, 
253. (Herb. T.C. D.) 
Descr.—A glabrous, slender suffrutex. Stem several feet long, 
scrambling over, or half-climbing through bushes and larger shrubs, the 
branches pendulous, furrow-striate, curved, Leaves varying from 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, }-1 inch long, 2-6 lines wide, acute, 
flat, 3-nerved, veinless. Pedicels axillary, 1-2 lines long, 1-flowered or 
sometimes 3-flowered. Perianth slender obpyramidal, 5-angled, with 
5 small outside prominences at the summit of the ovary, beyond which 
the tube is prolonged at least twice as far ; limb 5-parted, ovate, acute, 
bearded in the middle. Stamens in the throat of the tube. Style as 
long as the tube. Ovulea 4, pendulous from a coiled, filiform placenta, 
