354 ON MELIANTHUS TRIMENIANUS. 
ulate, 3-3 poll. longe. Racemi terminales, stricti, erecti, set 
3-5 pollicares, pedunculo valida rachique rubr o-viri oe puberu 
4 ‘eillis 4- 
acuminate, concave, virides. lores in "verticillis subunilatarales, 
horizontales, resupinati, terminalibus masculis, pedicellis validis apice. 
dilatatis bracteis eequilongis puberulis. Ca lye aya geomet, viridis, 
glaberrimus, coriaceus, basi obliquus sed vix gibbus ; sepala 5, fere ad 
basin libera; 2 antica eestivatione interiora, horizontal, late oblonga, 
™ma, quinto antico deficiente, unguiculata, declinata ; ICO 
anguste lineari-oblongze, incurvee, crasse carnose, intus 
glaberrime, purpuree, apices versus cae fasciculo villorum coerentes, 
ceterum glaberrime, nitide ; 1 s poll. long, lanceolata, acu- 
minate, undulatz, ndulz, caainees 2 laterales extus plus minus- 
ve a ane Diseus sepalo postico antepositus, elevatus, hippocrepi- 
eevis, postice emarginatus. Stam na 4, persistentia, 
ongio 
fllapaéatia basi distantibus et Oe dilatatis ; ° posti borers 
recta, intra discum inserta, approximata, filamentis ima basi intus 
dilatatis Sbiflethaas connatis ; pate dorso basi affixe, oblon 
utrinque wiles? connectivo crasso dorso convexo, loculis linearibus 
: e 
semi-orbiculares, valde compresse, marginibus paullo incrassatis, 
ereberri rvose, nervis horizontalibus reticulatis; loculi 4, 
angusti, ad 2-spermi. Semina (immatura) forma varia; alia pyrifor- 
mia, hilo basilari, et plagis 1 v. 2 lateralibus depressis ovoideis notata, 
alia orbicularia, depressa, peltata, hilo ventrali, facie dorsali striolato, 
striis utrinque a linea media descendentibus. 
Roland as Esq., 
his tour to Namaqua Lan d on the occasion ps its ES anaes, 
