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channelled on the upper side ; leaflets linear, slightly grooved above, 

 with a line of hairs in the groove, thickened, acute, and yellow at 

 the apex. Eaceme simple, terminal ; pedicel 6 mm. long in the only 

 mature flower seen. Sepals 4, oblong, subacute or obtuse and 

 minutely ciliate at the apex, with a membranous whitish margin, 

 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad. Petals 4, oblong-obovate, obtuse and 

 slightly incurved at the apex, veined, blue, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 broad. Stamens 6, all fertile, on a short subglobose torus ; filaments 

 2 mm. long ; anthers dorsifixed, extrorse, lh mm. long. Ovary 

 sessile, arcuate, li mm. long ; style h mm. long, flattened, stigma 

 widely capitate. Fruit unknown. 



2. GYNANDEOPSIS. 



G. pentaphylla, DC, Prod., i., 238. 



Great Namaqualand: Stream-bed near pass leading down to 

 Grundoorn, 4355 ; Sandverhaar, 4279. 



3. POLANISIA. 



1. P. lutea, Sond., in Fl. Cap., i., 57. 



Bushmanland : Broad sandy valley leading down to Eaman's 

 Drift, 4699, 4702. Little Namaqualand : Common in dry river-beds 

 on south side of pans between Daunabis and Bethany Drift, 6028. 

 Great Namaqualand : Stony ground near Holoog, 4103 ; top of sand- 

 stone ridge 12 km. west of Sandverhaar, 3,500 ft., 4594, 4595; new 

 shallow stream-bed on stony plain 12 km. west of Sandverhaar, 

 4619, 4627. 



2. P. dianthera, DC, Prod., i., 242. 



Great Namaqualand: Grundoorn, 3134 ; common in sandy places 

 21-30 km. north of Eaman's Drift, 4014; sandstone hills 12 km. 

 west of Sandverhaar, 3,300 ft., 4592. 



Corolla yellow, purple marked at base. 



3. P. linearifolia, sp. nov. 



Atf. Polanisia semitetrandra, Th. Dur. et Schinz [Dianthera 

 semitetrandra, Klotzsch), sed foliis quinquefoliolatis, floribus parum 

 majoribus, et numero ampliore staminodium differt. 



Herba, ad 20 cm. alta, ramis pseudo-dichotomis, striatis, viridibus. 

 Folia quinquefoliolata ; petiola complanata, viridis, foliolo similis, 

 10-20 mm. longa ; foliola angusto-linearia, acuta vel obtusa, 



