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NEW PLANTS FROM THE CAPE PENINSULA. 

 By Major A. H. Wolley Dod. 



In critically examining a number of doubtful plants among 

 those I brought home with me from the Cape Peninsula, Mr. N. E. 

 Brown has discovered the following new species. I take this 

 opportunity of most cordially acknowledging the inestimable help 

 he has afibrded me, not only in determining a large quantity of 

 doubtful species, but in my own determinations during the past 

 three years. 



I am indebted to Dr. Masters and to Mr. N. E. Brown for the 

 descriptions of the species to which their names are appended. 



Heliophila tabularis, sp. n. Annual, glabrous,^ 3-5 inches 

 high ; leaves narrowly linear, about 1 inch long, trifid, with the 

 lateral segments arising from the middle of their length, or entire. 

 Petals oblong, yellowish ; pedicels rather stout, about ^ inch long. 

 Pods erect, U lines long by -|-1 line wide ; style ensiform, 1 Una 

 long. 



Orange Kloof, at about 2500 feet. Oct., Wol/nj Dod, 3338. 



Near small forms of H. tr if urea, but differing in the colour of the 

 flowers, its erect pods on relatively shorter pedicels, and in the shape 

 of the style, which in H. trifurca is cylindrical or subclavate. 



Muraltia brachypetala, sp. n. Shrubby, 6-12 inches, 

 branches pubescent ; leaves fascicled, linear, keeled, erect-patent ; 

 flowers sessile ; sepals lanceolate, acute ; upper petals 1 line long, 

 slightly exceeding sepals ; capsule with four long slender horns. 



Hiils west of Simon's Town. Aug.-Oct., Wolloj Dod, 1426, 1871. 



Superticially much resembling M. Hehteria, but a much lower 

 growing shrub, with narrower more erect leaves tapering more 

 gradually into a mucro, and differing essentially in its very short 

 upper petals. 



M. demissa, sp. n. Shrubby, 6-12 inches, irregularly much 

 branched ; leaves slightly fascicled or single, 2^-4 lines long, 

 closely set, erect-spreading or somewhat recurved, concave on face, 

 keeled below, pungent; flowers sessile, sepals l^-lf lines, broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate, subacute, or obtuse with a short apiculus; upper 

 petals l-\ Une, straight, hnear, acute. Capsule not seen. 



Frequent on the Cape Peninsula. Aug.-Dec, Wolley Dud, 1146, 

 1450, 2761. 



This species appears to have been confounded with the dwarf 

 scrubby forms of M.Jili/oymis, from which it differs in being much 

 more irregularly branched, its shorter and more spreading leaves, 

 shorter, broader, less acute sepals, and especially in its longer acute 

 upper petals. 



M. recurva, sp. n. Shrubby, 6-10 inches, not branched, or 

 only so in the uppermost part ; leaves fascicled, 2^-4 lines long, 

 rather laxly set, somewhat strongly recurved, almost flat on face, 

 scarcely keeled, pungent ; flowers sessile, sepals li-lf lines long, 



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