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This species has a very distinct and rather singular appearance, 

 the rigid branches hearing leaves at the apex only, and having 

 two rows of old persistent contiguous capsules or their remains 

 extending along one side of the branches from their very base to 

 the base of the tuft of leaves. The stamens had all been destroyed 

 by insects in the few flowers examined, but Burchell in his MS. 

 note states that they are J 0-20 in number ; he also states that the 

 flowers have no styles, but on the only perfect capsule I have 

 examined there were five ; possibly the flowers are subunisexual. 



959. Aizoon rarum, N. E. Brown [Ficoideae] ; affinis A. his- 

 panico, Linn., foliis longioribus, sepalis brevioribus obtusioribusque 

 et indumento differt. 



H 



Rami 



15-30 cm. longi, superne in ramos 2-4 cy moso-f urcati , adpresse 

 pubescentes, internodiis inferioribus 3-6 cm. longis, superioribus 

 0-8-2-5 cm. longis. Folia radicalia subrosulata, 8-10 cm. longa, 

 8-18 mm. lata, oblanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata ; folia caulina 

 inferiora opposita, superiora alterna, 1*5-4 cm. longa, lanceolata 

 vel oblanceolata, omnia acuta vel obtusa, basi longe attenuata, 

 papillosa, pilis adpressis tenniter obtecta, demum glabra. Flores 

 axillares vel in furcis sessiles, distantes. Calycis lobi 6-7 mm. 

 longi, ovati, obtusi, extra pilis longis albis adpressis dense 

 vestiti, intra glabri, rosei {Burchell). Stamina 50-60, qumque- 

 fasciculata. Ovarium apice depresso-truncatum, 5-angulare, 

 glabrum ; styli 5, filiformes.— A. lanceolatum, Burchell, Trav., 

 vol. i., p. 181, non Murray, nomen tantum. 



South Africa. Tulbagh Div. : in New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 

 Burchell, 1013. 



This must be an exceedingly rare plant. Burchell collected it 

 on June 26th, 1811, but only found one specimen, and since that 

 date no other collector appears to have collected it, although the 

 locality is on the main road between Cape Town and luibagh, 

 and most South African collectors have botamsed there more 

 than once. 



960. Stipularia efulenensis, Hutchinson [Rubiaceae-Mussaen- 



deae] ; affinis S. qahmicae, Hiern, sed foliis ationbus ovato- 

 ellipticis, petiolis "crassioribus brevioribus et calycis lobis longe 

 ciliatis differt. 



Frutex scandens (teste Bates), ramis adultis striates tenuiter 

 pubescentibus, junioribus dense tomentosis. Folia o^em pteca, 

 acute acuminata, 6-13 cm. longa, 5-8 cm. ,"*^JJSLg2J 

 villosa, nervis lateralibus utrinque 10-15 oblique patul s dist incti, 

 subtus longe pubescentibus, venis laxe anastoniosannbus supra 

 indistinctis subtus conspicuis ; petioli 5-13 mm. longi, tomentosi 

 stipulae ovato-lanceolatae, acutae, 10 mm. longae ^ m m. latae, 

 intus glaberrimae, extus tenuiter tomentosae. Ca l™™ a T „"J°l 

 breviter pedunculata, pedunculo 5 mm. longo tomentoBO. ^^ 

 hracteae\ membranaceae, 2 cm. longae, 2-5 cm Jatae ^^^ 

 intus glabrae, extus tenuiter pubescentes Flares *^™^ 

 Receptaculum 3 mm. longum, minute P ubescens ^^Ss Ce ns! 

 inae^ualiter 5dobat«s, 7 mm. longus, ntrinq™ >app« *J |^£ 



