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attenuate. Antherae distinct^ ovata? loculis lateralibus 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentibus appendice apicis carnosd brevi 

 acuta stigmate incumbente. Massae pollinis minutm supra 

 basin afihvce subglobosce. Stigma muticum. Brown MSS. 



A very curious unrecorded species, now first introduced 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. The masterly description 

 is by Mr. Brown, who has so far modified the character of 

 the genus with respect to that defined by himself in his 

 illustration of the Natural Order, in the ' Memoirs of the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society,' 1 as to fit it for the 

 reception of the species before us ; which he considers too 

 naturally allied to the East Indian group he had originally 

 allotted to Ceropegia to be separated. 



Bot. Reg. 626 (1822). 



Schizopetalon. Calyx clausus. Petcda pinnatifida ! 

 Siliqua torosa, seminibus uniseriatis. Cotyledones quatuor ! 

 separatim contortuplicatae ! Herba annua alternifolia, pube 

 tenui-ramosa. Folia sinuato-pinnatifida. Racemus/o/itfm?- 

 bracteatus. 



Calyx pubescens, foliolis albo-marginatis, lateralibus altius 

 descendentibus. Petala alba, unguibus calycem paulb super- 

 antibus, laminis circumscriptione ovatis, pinnatifidis, laci- 

 niis linearibus siccitate {et fiorsan cestivatione) involutis. 

 Stamina 6, filamentis subcequalibus, edentulis, antheris u?ii- 

 formibus, sagittato-linearibus, infrorsis. Glandulae hypogynce 

 quatuor lineares, erectte, petalis suboppositce, geminatim 

 basibus dilatatis confiuentibus filament a later alia stipantes. 

 Stylus brevissimus. Stigmata papidosa, connato-approxi- 

 mafa, in stylum decurrentia, basibus solutis, unicum quasi 

 extinctoriifiorme efformantibus. Siliqua sessilis, bilocularis, 

 augusto-linearis, pube ramosd brevi conspersa, valvis venosis. 

 Semina splicer ico-lenticularia. Embryo viridis Radicula 

 albicans, arcuata, semine paulb longior. Cotyledones ver- 

 ticillata?, equates, elongatce, angustatce, semiteretes, sepa- 

 ratim subspiralltcr involute. 



In online Cruciferarum genus nulli cognito affine, et 



1 [Sec ante, p. 205.] 



