The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey.

  • William H. Harvey
Date:
1868
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Credit: The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cotyledons tvdce folded on -the radicle.—FI. Cap. i. p. 35 ; Hhes. Cap. t. 166. A large woolly South African genus of upwards of sixty species. These are distributed under the following sections:— 1. Leptoemtjs. Pods Unear, nioniliforni; the heads oval. Hei'bs. 2. Oemiscus. Pods linear, moniliform ; beads globose. Herbs. 3. Selenocaepe.®. Pods oval or suborbicular. Herbs. 4. Oethoselis. Pods linear, \A’ith straight or straightish margins. Herbs or shrublets. 5. Pachtstymum. Pods linear; style short and thick. Pubescent half-shrubs. 6. Lanceolaeia. Pods lanceolate. Glabrons shrublets and half-shrubs. 14. CAHPONEMA, Sond. Pod sessile, indeliiscent, linear, terete, tapering to each end, somewhat constricted between the seeds, with a very thin septum, 2-celled, one cell smaller and empty, the other several- seeded ; valves hardened, nerveless; style conical. Seeds in a single row, oblong, terete, immarginate, separated by cross- ])artitions ; cotyledons twice folded on the radicle.—FI. Cap. i. p. 35. Endemic. 1 species, C. filiforme, Sond., a glabrous or pilose annual, 12-18 inches high. Leaves linear, the lower long ; racemes long; flowers blue or purple; pods pendulous, 1 inch long.—Found on the Cape flats. 15. BRACHYCAHP.®A, DC. Sepals equal at base. Pod indehiscent, deeply 2-lobed, with a very narrow septum ; valve very convex, netted and ridged ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds ivith long, linear cotyledons, spirally rolled on the radicle.—FI. Cap. i. y>._33. An endemic genus of 2 species, natives of the West and North-West districts. Glabrous, half-shrubby perennials, with oblong or linear entire leaves ; long leafless racemes, and handsome yellow or purple flower. 16. CYCLOPTYCHIS, E. Mey. Pod hard-shelled, indehiscent, orbicular-ovate, beaked; sep- tum orbicular; valves somewhat convex, with raised ridges, radiating from a prominent keeled centre; seeds solitary in each centre; cotyledons long, linear, twice folded on the ra- dicle.—FI. Cap. i. p. 34 ; Thes. Cap. t. 59. An endemic genus of 2 species, natives of the Western districts. They resemble Bracliyca/rpaa in aspect, but differ in fruit. 17. PALMSTRUCKIA, Sond. Pod sessile, orbicular, very much flattened, indehiscent, 1- locular, 1-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed, with a mem- branous marginal wing; cotyledons linear, incumbent, twice- folded.