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Sect. IV. Ortho^elis. DC. 



Siliquae sessiles vel subsessiles, compressae, lineares, marginibus rectis aut 

 vix subsinuatis, rarissime submoniliformes , marginibus regulariter inter semina 

 coarctatis, stylo apiculatae. 



§. 1. Caulibus herbaceis annuis. 



22. Heliophila latisiliqua. 



H. herbacea glabra veJ basi pilosa, siliquis subpendulis oblongo-linearibus uninerviis 

 reticulato-venosis stylo brevi filiformi apiculatis, foliis subcarnosis planati partitig, lobis 

 3 — i-jugis filiformibus approximatis, stamiiiibus edentulis, 



Lunaria elongafa Thunb. ! prod. 107. flor. cap. ed. Scliult. 492. Pers. 



enchir. 2. 194. 



Carpopodium Thunbergn Eckl. et Zeyh I enum. n. 103. 



H. latisiliqua E. Meyer .' in herb. Drege. 



Hab. in campis sabulosis inter Verlooren Valley et Lange Valley (Thun- 

 berg!), in locis lapidoso-arenosis alt. III., in Tulbaghskloof, nee non ad montem 

 Witsenberg, Worcester (Eckion et Zeyherl), inter Hexriviersberg et Bokkeveld 

 in collibus lapidosis, 3 — 4000' (Drege!). Floret Septembri, Octobri. 



Herba subpedalis. Radix perpendicularis , fibrosa , digitalis. Caulis basi 

 simplex, erectus, pollicaris, vel brevior, ramosus, ramis alternis oppositisve ad- 

 scendentibus, subflexuosis, elongatis, simplicibus vel alterne divisis. teretibus, 

 striatis, paucifoliis, glabris vel inira medium pilis patulis, sparsis obsessis. Folia 

 carnosula, ad divisiones caulis primarias subconferta, glabra vel pilosiuscula, petio- 

 lata, pectinato-pinnatipartita, rhachi obtusiuscula, vix pollicem longa, i lin. lata, 

 lobis utrinque 3 — 4, filiformibus, obtusiuscalis subacutisve, 2 — 3 lin. longis. op- 

 positis, approximatis, i — ■! lin. inter se distantibus; caulina pauca, glabra, infe- 

 rioribus similia, sed rainora, rarissime trifida, nunquam linearia, integra. Racemi 

 terminales, paueiflori. Pedicelli filiformes, glabri, floretifes 4 — 6 lin. longi, erecto- 



