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apical gland. Style with a riug of hairs a little below the top, 

 stigma capitate. 



This is a frequent plant on the Cape Peninsula in Sept. -Oct. 

 Wollei/ Dod, 3058, 3146, 3252, 3270, 3436. It appears to have been 

 overlooked by earlier collectors. It differs from its allies in the 

 very broad wing to the calyx lobes, and in the colour of its flowers. 



S. gibbosa, sp. n. Annual, 6-8 inches high, branched from 

 the base. Leaves broadly ovate, obtuse, 8-6 lines long by 3-4 

 broad. Inflorescence dense, cymes about 2 inches in diameter. 

 Calyx 4-tid, segments 1 line long, concave, keeled, not winged, 

 gibbous near the subtriincate, obtuse, or apiculate apex, the api- 

 culas erect. Flowers bright yellow. Corolla 4-lobed, when folded 

 projecting 1^-2 lines beyond the calyx, the segments oval subobtuse. 

 Stamens iuserted in the sinuses of the corolla lobes, the filaments 

 about equalling the anthers, which have an apical gland. Style 

 without a ring, stigma cylindrical or subclavate. 



By railway near Muizenberg Vley, Jan., Wolley Dod, 2332. 



Much resembling 8. an yea R. Br., but differing in the concave 

 calyx lobes, with obtuse or apiculate connivent apices, those of 

 S. aurea being aciculate, and very spreading or even hooked. The 

 style characters also differ. 



S. rara, sp. n. Annual, 1^-2 inches high, unbranched. Leaves 

 opposite, strap-shaped, erect, subacute, 3-4 lines long by ^ line wide. 

 Inflorescence cymose, its branches snberect. Calyx 5 -fid, lanceo- 

 late in outline, 3 lines long by 1^ line wide, lobes strongly keeled, 

 very acute. Flowers bright yellow. Corolla 5-lobed, when folded 

 projecting 1 line beyond the calyx, the segments narrow, obtuse. 

 Anthers sagittate, sessile, inserted a little below the sinuses of the 

 corolla lobes, without glands. Stigma cylindrical, exceeding the 

 anthers. 



Near Uitvlugt. Nov., Wolleii Dod, 3413. 



Not unlike Lagenias put^illa E. Mey., but I prefer to keep it in 

 Sehcea. It differs at sight by its somewhat larger size, and strongly 

 keeled calyx lobes. Moreover, its sessile anthers and cylindrical 

 stigma quite remove it from L. pusilla. It is unlike any known 

 S^ehcpa. 



Suaeda csespitosa, sp. n. Herbaceous, caespitose. Barren 

 shoots very leafy, leaves about ^ inch long, linear acute, flat on 

 face, slightly rounded on back. Flowering shoots considerably 

 exceeding the barren ones. Inflorescence spicate, monoecious, the 

 upper portion male. Flowers about three in a cluster, sessile. 

 Bracts 3-4 lines long, 1-1^ line broad at base, tapering to a sub- 

 acute apex. 



Paarden Island. Oct., Wolky Dod, 3396. 



Unlike any other South African species of Sudda, and much 

 resembhng Chenolca diffusa Thunb. in habit, though of a totally 

 different colour. 



Gnidia parvula, sp. n. Dwarf, branched from the base, 

 branches virgate, glabrous, leafy. Leaves subsessile or very shortly 

 petiolate, erect, narrow-lanceolate, 3-5 lines long by ^-1 line wide, 



