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stalk, and at the summit into a blunt style of the same 
length (13-2 lines) ; margins straight or scarcely undulated ; 
valves flat and even, with a distinct, though thin and faintly 
prominent middle nerve ; reticulation quite obsolete. Seeds 
6-8 in each cell, in a single series, quite flat, nearly orbicular, 
13 lin. long, and almost as broad, brown, with a pale whitish 
membranaceous margin of nearly half a line in breadth ; ter- 
minations of the cotyledons straight, not dilated and curved 
as in the section Lanceolaria. 
17. Heliophila (Carpopodium) brachycarpa, nob.—Vruticosa, 
ramosissima, glabra ; foliis herbaceis, subpetiolatis, linearibus, 
subacutis, planis; racemis terminalibus corymbiformibus ; 
sepalis obtusis, pedicello brevioribus ; petalis spathulato- 
oblongis, apice rotundatis ; germine breviter stipitato, lan- 
ceolato-oblongo, stylo brevi rostrato. 
In solo argillaceo ad radices montium Winterhoek Uiten- 
hage (IV. C. c.) Apr. 1839. Krauss, n. 1254. 
Branches round, smooth, whitish. Leaves crowded, 
spreading, about one inch long, and one line broad, simply 
acute (not mucronate), or sometimes quite obtuse, attenuated 
into a short and thin petiole, the middle nerve more or less 
visible, especially underneath. Corymbs few-flowered, after- 
wards elongated into short racemes; pedicels filifurm, semi- 
patent ; sepals oblong, yellow or greenish, with a white mem- 
branaceous margin, 2 lines long; petals pale yellow, 4 lines 
long, 2 lines broad at the upper part, attenuated into a 
Short unguis; stamens and ovary as long as the calyx ; ovary 
with two ovules in each cell, and supported by a very short, 
yet quite distinct stalk, for which reason the species would 
appear to belong to De Candolle’s last section. We have 
not seen the fruit, but the plant agrees with none ofthe 
species hitherto described, nor with any in Drége’s collection. 
VIOLARIEZ. 
Viola decumbens (Linn. fil. DC. prodr. 1. p. 229, n. 52). 
Ad latera mont. Bavianskloof, (IV. B. b.) alt. 1000—2000". 
Dec. 1838. Krauss n. 1225. 
