Alchemilla.] xlviii. rosacea (oliver). 379 



outer teeth lanceolate, inner ovate acute exceeding the outer. Carpel 

 solitary, subsessile. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Br. Both I 



6. A. pedata, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 260. A low diffuse de- 

 cumbent herb, 2 or 3-8 in. in height, copiously branched from the 

 rootstock; branches ascending*, thinly pilose, with spreading or as- 

 cending hairs. Leaves 5-partite, or .the segments exceeding £ of the 

 radius, the lateral segments frequently each with an outer lobe, ren- 

 dering the leaf subpedate ; median segments obovate, broadly serrate 

 in the upper half with the teeth directed towards the obtuse apex, gla- 

 brous above excepting towards the margins, thinly pilose or glabrate 

 excepting on the 'midrib beneath, usually firmly membranous or sub- 

 coriaceous, |-§ in. broad ; petioles scarcely equalling the lamina. 

 Stipules entire, or with deep teeth. Flowers fascicled on short axillary 

 bracteate peduncles, bracts palmatifid. Outer sepals oblong, inner 

 broadly ovate, hairy within at the tip. Carpels 2, shortly stipitate. 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Br. Roth ! 



Richard (Fl. Abyss, i. 261) cites and describes Alchemilla elongata, Eckl. and Zeyh. 

 Enum. 264, as occurring in Abyssinia. I suppose on the authority of Walpers (Rep. ii. 

 42). I suspect Abyssinia to be a misprint in Walpers, and that this species is confined 

 to the Cape Flora. It is an erect or ascending plant, 1-2 ft. in height, the branches 

 finely silky-pubescent with appressed hairs above. Leaves palmately 7-fid, the lobes 

 obovate, £-§ the radius of the leaf, broadly crenate-serrate above, upper surface glabrous, 

 lower thinly pilose or glabrescent. Flowers in loose panicles on slender pedicels of \ in. 

 more or less.. 



In Schimper's recent collections (1863-8) is a fragmentary specimen of an Alchemilla 

 distinct from any above described, with deeply 7-fid or -partite leaves, glabrous above, 

 from creeping branches, and lax racemes of long-pedicelled flowers. 



8. CLIFFORTIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen: Plant, i. 624. 



Flowers small, axillary, sessile, dioecious or polygamous. Male 

 flower : Calyx 8-4 partite, segments elliptical or ovate, often pilose, 

 imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens (indefinite or) definite; filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers broad, didymous, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary 0. Female flower : Calyx-tube contracted at the mouth, limb 

 3- or 4-partite, deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens (or 3 or 4 imper- 

 fect'?). Carpels 1 or 2, distinct, the ovaries included in the calyx-tube ; 

 style exserted, stigma plumose ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a 

 small nut (or subdrupaceous). — Rigid shrubs or undershrubs, the 

 branches often almost concealed by the 1-3-foliolate stipulate leaves. 



A considerable genus, restricted to South extratropical Africa, with the exception of 

 the following species, which is common to the Cape and Angola. 



1. C. linearifolia, Eckl. et Zeyh. ; Harv. in Fl. Cap. ii. 301. An 

 erect heath-like shrub, reaching 4-6 ft. ; twigs shortly tomentose- 

 pubescent or glabrate. Leaves in tufted axillary fascicles, digitately 

 3-foliolate or 1-fbliolate, the lateral leaflets suppressed - } petiole very 



