as grow wild at the Cape of Good Hope. 253 



Folia opposita, sessilia, lineari-subulata, integra, erccta, inferiora 



subpollicaria, sup eriora unguicularia. 

 Flores in ramulis terminales, solitarii, purpurei. 

 Calycis laciniae lanceolata3, corolla duplo breviores. 

 Valde affinis Chironice lychnoidi, cujus forsan solavarietas. 



CHIRONIA BACCIFERA. 



Cn. foliis lineari-lanceolatis glabris, caulc fruticoso ramosissimo, 



fructu baccato. 

 Chironia baccifera. Linn. Syst. Vegetal, xiv. p. 229. per Gmelin. 



p. 392. Spec. Plant, p. 273. per Willden. p. 1070. Thunb. Prod. 



PI. Cap. p. 35. 

 Crescit in collibus prope urbem, extra in campis, alibi vulgaris. 

 Floret Augusto et sequentibus mensibus. 

 Caulis fruticosus, totus glaber, subtetragonus, erectus, ramulosus, 



biped alis et ultra. 

 Rami et Ramuli alterni, hexagoni, virentcs, divaricato-patuli, 



virgati. 

 Folia opposita, sessilia, decurrentia, lineari-lanceolata, supra con- 



vexiuscula sulco longitudinali, subtus concaviuscula, margini- 



bus reflexis costaque elevata, integra, glabra, decussata, pa- 



tcntia, internodiis longiora, pollicaria. 

 Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales, solitarii, flavi. 

 Perianthium monophjllum, ad basin fere 5-partitum, persistens, 



glabrum: lacinice ovatae, acutae, supra convexae, subtus linea 



carinatae, virides, vix lineam longa?. 

 Germen inferum Stylo simplici filiformi Stigmatetyue obtuso. 

 Bacca globosa, glabra, carnosa, sanguinea. 

 Semina plurima, compressiuscula, subglobosa, punctato-rugosa, 



atra. 



• XV. Remarks 



