FLORA OF THE CAPE REGION. l'6l 



muticous, parallel, and nearly of the same length: style 

 tiliform ; stigma minutely bilobed ; ovary pubescent ; ovules 

 a pair to each cell: capsule clavate, 7 mm. long, pointed 

 above, long stipitate below ; seeds 4, or by abortion fewer ; 

 retinacula stout, nearly horizontal, all approximated — when 

 only too seeds are developed, one in each cell, they are 

 minutely muricate on the back and very deeply on the 

 inner face; if the second seed is developed it is very dif- 

 ferent from the inner and so arranged as to embrace it 

 by an overlapping edge ; both sides are nearly smooth, 

 but the margin is strongly pectinate on one side, the other 

 side rolled in over the second seed; the radicular angle is 

 prolonged and pectinate. — San Jose del Cabo on shaded 

 hillsides. 



453. Carlowrightia ? FiMBRiATA. Annual, crect. i 

 metre or less in height, paniculate-branching above, very 

 minutel}' puberulent ; stems whitish, with shreddy bark 

 and swollen nodes almost winged by the shortly decurrent 

 petioles: leaves nearly glabrous. 3-6 mm. wide, 50-90 

 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, tapering to 

 a sessile base — the petiole decurrent and persistent: in- 

 florescence naked-paniculate at the ends of the branches; 

 bracts and bractlets similar in shape but shorter than the 

 subulate lobes of the deeply 5-cleft calyx : corolla 7-8 

 mm. long, bright straw yellow; the oval nearly equal 

 lobes four times as long as the tube, which is a little ex- 

 ceeded by the calyx-lobes ; posterior lobe of the corolla 

 a little narrower than the others and with two small divar- 

 icate lobes; filaments very minutely pubescent, shorter 

 than the corolla; anthers rather large the cells parallel 

 and nearly equal: capsule 8-9 mm. long, pubescent only 

 at the apex, ovate, the stipe longer than the body; seeds 

 two in each cell nearly as in the preceding species, but 

 the two inner ones minutely prickly on the margin; the 



