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ave louger and narrower than in the type. C. prostrata E, Meyer, 

 quoted under this variety by Harvey, is also cited by him as Bnl- 

 liarda Dregei. Thunberg's plant of the same name is no doubt 

 different, as stated by Harvey, but we can throw no light upon it. 



0. profiisa Hook. fil. (Bot. Mag. t. 6044) seems to be a form of 

 C. iiiargindUs, having the leaves less connate than in the type. 



C. OBLiQUA [Solander in] Aiton, I. c. 393 ! non Andr. Bot. Eep. 

 t. 414. Specimen in herbarium named by Solander, in whose 

 MSS. is a description by Masson, who found it in gardens at 

 Eonde Bosch. Stem shrubby, angled when dried, according to 

 Solander 4 ft. high, divaricate, geniculate. Leaves opposite, dis- 

 tinct at base, patent or subpatent, ovate, sessile, flat on both sides, 

 1-11 in. long, subacute, fleshy, glabrous, margins cartilaginous, 

 punctate. Cyme corymbose paniculate, trichotomous, shortly 

 pedunculate (according to Solander white) flowers. Involucre 2- 

 leaved; leaves connate. Calyx cup-like. Sepals broadly deltoid. 

 Petals oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, concave. Styles subulate. 



The above agrees fairly well with the description of the earlier 

 C. jwrtulacea Lam., to which Harvey refers it in the Flora Capensis. 

 The flowers in the plant from Hort. Kew. are said to have been 

 white, not rosy, as stated by Harvey, and the spaces between the 

 calyx teeth are not so wide. 



C. RAMOSA [Dryand. in] Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1, i. 390! Judging 

 from Masson's specimen — the type of Dryander's description — this 

 is not C. ramosa of Thunberg, nor does it seem to be the " C raniosa 

 Ait.? fide E. & Z." of Harvey — a plant which unfortunately is not 

 in Harvey's herbarium. It agrees in the main with C. densi/olia 

 Harvey, but has somewhat louger leaves and larger bracts : the 

 type specimen of C. densifulia hardly affords sufficient material to 

 justify us in uniting the two, though the point must be considered 

 by future monographers of the genus. Plants collected by Banks 

 and Solander at the Cape seem identical with C. densifolia. The 

 following description of C. ramosa is drawn up from the type of 

 Dryander's description : — Stem erect, shrubby, terete, branched. 

 Leaves coimato-perfoliate, subulate, trigonous, much louger than 

 the internodes, but under 1 in. long, fleshy, tapering to a sharpish 

 point, slightly channelled above, glabrous. Cymes terminal, pe- 

 dunculate, corymbose, many-flowered, peduncle 4-5 in. long. 

 Bracts opposite, connate, subacuminate, lower bracts 2 lines long. 

 Sepals ovate, glabrous, acute or subacute, about one-third as long as 

 the petals. Petals about 1 line long, obovate or obovate-oblong. 

 Styles subulate. 



C. SPARSA [Dryander in] Aiton, I. c. 395 ! Not referred to by 

 Harvey. Specimens in spirit from Hort. Kew. (Masson), 1774. 

 Leaves alternate, thick, oblong-lauceolate or broadly strap-shaped ; 

 apex acute, glabrous, upper surface flat, rounded below, often about 

 IJ-l-l in. long. Panicle about 6 in. long, subsecund, branches 

 terete, glabrous, erecto-patent, simple or forked. Flowers pedi- 

 cellate ; pedicels shorter than the flower or very rarely equalling 

 length of flower. Bract at ba«e of pedicels lanceolate, acute, concave. 



