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46. Heliophila suavissima t. XXV. 



H. isuffruticosa glabra, siliquis subliiiearibus basi attenuatis patiilis stylo brevi api- 

 culatis, foliis lineari-subulatis acutiusculis. 



Heliophila suavissima Burch. cat. geogr. pl. afr. austr. extratrop. n. 2742. 



DC! syst. II. 691. prod. I. 234. Don. gen. syst. I. 267. Eckl. et Zeyh.! 



enum. n. 96. 



Heliophila juncea Vahl ! herb. 



Hab. prope Plettenberg's-Baaken, (Burchell); in campis graminosis inter fru- 

 tices ad lluvium Zwartkopsrivier, prope villam Paul Mare (^alt. I.3, Uitenhage, et 

 in regione urbis Graafreynet , (^Ecklon et Zeyher !3 ; in coUibus lapidosis ad 

 Klaarstroom in Zwartebergen (^Drege.9. Floret ab Augusto in Octobrem. 



Radix fibrosa. Caiilis suffruticulosus, 1^ — •2-pedalis, erectus, teres, glaber, 

 inferne pennae anserinae crassitie, plerumque a basi ramosus. Rami erecti, vir- 

 gati, glabri, prope basin foliosi, apice subnudi. Folia alterna, lineari-subulata, 

 vel subfiliformia , acuta, in aliis speciminibus i — 1 - pollicaria , in aliis fere bi- 

 polHcaria, vix semilineani lata, glaberrima, in axillis saepe ramulos plures abbre- 

 viatos gerentia. Racemi terminales, aphylli, graciles, primum subcorymbosi, denique 

 elongati, semipedales. Pedicelli filiformes, glabri, valde inaequales, inferiore» 

 8 — 12 lin. longi, superiores sensim breviores, juniores erecti, fructiferi patiili. 

 Alabastrum ovato-oblongum, glaberrimum. Flores odoratissimi, (^Burchell). vio- 

 lacei vel purpurascentes , in sicco plerumque pallidiores. Sepala linearia, obtu- 

 siuscula, 3 lin. longa, margine membranacea. Petala late obovata, calycem su- 

 perantia. Stamina calycis longitudine, omnia edentula. Antherae lineares. Stylus 

 1 vel 2 lin. longus. Stigma aetate juniore capitellatum, in fructu obtusum. 

 Siliqua linearis, basi apiceque subangustata, 1 — H poll. longa, ü lin. lata, glabra, 

 valvis compressis, margine saepius subsinuatis, subtrinerviis, nervls lateralibus magis 

 minusve conspicuis, ramulosis, intermedio evidentiore. Dissepimentum tenue. Seinina 



