250 -Sir C. P. Thunberg's Description of such Species of Chironia 



Floret Januario, Februario. 



Co alia herbaceous, totus glaber, mox a radice ramosus. 



Rami subradicales, plures, elongati, subsimplices, raro superne 



divisi, laxi, flexuoso-erecti, subtetragoni, pedales. 

 Folia opposita, sessilia, ovata, obtusiuscula, integra ; inferne ag- 



gregata, pollicaria; superne remotissima; suprema lanceolata. 

 Flores in ramis terniinales, solitarii, purpurei. 

 Cah/cis laciniae lanceolatse, elongato-subulatae, erectae, longitudine 



tubi corolla? . 

 DifFert a Chironia trinervia: 



1. foliis obtusioribus. 



2. ramis elongatis. 



3. calycis apice subsetaceo. 



CHIRONIA FRUTESCENS. 

 Ch. foliis Ianceolatis tomentosis, caule fruticoso. 

 Chironia frutescens. Linn. Si/st. Vegetab. xiv. p. 229- per Gmelin. 



p. 392. Spec. Plant, p. 273. per Willden. p. 1070. Thunb. Pro- 



drom. Plant. Cap. p. 35. 

 Crescit in oris maritimis Promontorii Bona? Spei Africes, in littore 



infra Leuwekopp, in montibus Hottentots Holland et alibi 



vulgaris. 

 Floret ab Augusto in Decembris usque mensem. 

 Radix perennis. 

 Caulis fruticosus, totus cinereo-tomentosus, erectus, subangulatus, 



ramosus, pedalis et ultra. 

 Rami lignosi, obsolete tetragoni, alterni, foliis deciduis annulati, 



ramulosi. 

 Ramuli superne aggregati, fastigiati. 

 Folia decussatim opposita, sessilia, lanceolata, obtusa cum acu- 



mine, integerrima, carnosa, frequentissima, erecta, subtomen- 



tosa, pollicaria vel paulo longiora. 



Flores 



