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OBSERVATIONS ON SOME NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN GENERA, &c. 55 
Has. Amaponda country, Drége. (v. s.) 
These two species, which are very much 
alike, come near to Freylinia and to Budd- 
ta in habit. Their characters are in 
some measure intermediate between those 
of the Gratiolee and Hemimeridee. 
VII. FREYXLINIA, Colla. 
TRIBUS GRATIOLEARUM. 
Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis submarginatis. 
Corolla tubulosa, limbo 5-lobo subbila- 
biato, laciniis rotundatis planis. Stamina 
didynama, Anthere biloculares, loculis 
parallelis contiguis. „Stylus simplex, stig- 
mate incrassato-capitato. Capsula ovata 
vel oblonga, valvulis coriaceis septicide 
dehiscentibus apice bifidis.—Frutices Aus- 
tro-Africant. Folia opposita, vel sparsa, 
integerrima, coriacea, nitida. Flores in 
paniculas vel racemos terminales dispositi. 
Bractee ad basin ramorum panicule vel 
pedicellorum minute. 
Very near Capraria in characters, but 
very different in habit. 
1. F. cestroides (Colla), foliis oppositis 
lanceolatis planis utrinque longe angusta- 
tis, floribus paniculato-racemosis. 
Capraria lanceolata. Linn. Suppl. 284. 
Link et Otto, Ic. Pl. Hort. Berol. 11. t. 4. 
Buddleia integerrima. Herb. de l Amat. 
Haz. Stellenbosch and Cape mountains; 
Ecklon, Drége, &c. (v. s 
2. F. densiflora, foliis inferivihes verti- 
cillatis, superioribus sparsis oblongo-ellip- 
ticis subplanis glabris, racemo denso sub- 
paniculato, corollis calyce 3—4-plo lon- 
gioribus 
Has. ibesditidai, George, and Uiten- 
age districts, Ecklon, Drége. (v. s 
8. F. longiflora foliis oppositis sparsisve 
oblongo-ellipticis vix undulatis glabris, 
racemo elongato simplici, corollis calyce 
5-plo longioribus. 
Has. Zwarteberg, Ecklon. (v. s.) 
4. F.undulata, foliis ovatis, racemis bre- 
vibus subsimplicibus, corollis calyce sub- 
triplo longioribus, 
Capraria luli 
«. carinata, foliis subplanis glabris cari- 
e. 
natis. 
— B. undulata, foliis glabris undulatis. 
y. pubescens, foliis pubescentibus sepe 
undulatis. 
Has. a. Langekloof and Zwartebergen, 
Drége; 8.and y. Swellendam district, Eck- 
lon, Drége. (v. s.) 
VIII. Herrestis. Gerin. 
TRIBUS GRATIOLEARUM. 
There are several genera, which, like 
Herpestis, have the sepals unequal in 
breadth, and placed as it were in three 
rows; that is to say, the upper and external 
one is the broadest, the lower ones inter- 
mediate in breadth and situation, and the 
lateral ones are the innermost and the nar- 
rowest. Amongst these genera, Beyrichia 
and Gratiola are distinguished from Her- 
pestis, by having but two fertile stamina, 
Pterostigma, by the disjoined cells of the 
anthers, and Mecardonia (from Martius’s 
account,) and Lindernia have the valves 
of the capsule quite entire, the margins not 
inflexed, and a thin plane parallel dissepi- 
ment, characters which distinguish a small 
group among the Gratiolee, containing 
besides these two genera five or six others. 
Thete remain Matourea, Caconapea, 
and Ranaria. I had considered the first 
distinct in the dehiscence of the capsule, 
and Caconapea in the form of the corolla; 
but, on examining a number of species 
which I now possess, I find that these dis- 
tinctions will not hold out; and Ranaria, 
which I have not seen, has, according to 
its author, the habit of Caconapea, with 
characters scarcely distinguishable from 
Herpestis; I have, therefore, thought it 
more conformable to a natural arrange- 
ment to consider the whole as one genus. 
On the other hand, the plant, which, in 
my Scrophularinee Indice, I had pub- 
lished as Herpestis amara, appears to be 
the Curanga amara of Jussieu, and to be 
really generically different from Herpestis. 
The calyx is described as four-sepaled, by 
Jussieu and Blume, as well as by Roxburgh. 
Martius (Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3. 18.) sepa- 
rated the H. lanigera, Cham. et Schlecht., 
from the other species, on account of a 
disk, bordered with long teeth, and encir- 
cling the ovarium. I find in Sir W. 
