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Aberia? longispina
Aberia? longispina Harv. [family ]
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 527, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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arborescent, armed with long, divergent spines, glabrous; branches and spines warted; leaves coriaceous, rhomboid-ovate or elliptical, obtuse, 5-nerved at base and veiny, quite entire, concolourous; female flowers unknown; male flowers fascicled, shortly pedicellate; calyx 5-parted, tomentose; sepals ovate, acute, nearly valvate. A shrub or small tree, resembling Celastrus buxifolius. Bark dark-coloured, minutely warted. Leaves 2–2 1/2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch broad, petioles 2 lines long. Male flowers 6–12 in a tuft, on pedicels 1–2 lines long. Stamens numerous; anthers subglobose.
Abrus
ABRUS L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Calyx campanulate, shortly 4-fid or 4-toothed, the upper lobe entire or bifid. Vexillum ovate, about equalling the subfalcate carina. Stamens 9, monadelphous in a split tube; no vexillary stamen. Ovary several-ovuled; style short, incurved, glabrous. Legume oblong, compressed, 4–6-seeded, with partitions between the seeds. Diffuse or climbing, slender, ligneous plants, chiefly from tropical Asia; naturalized in several parts of the tropics. Leaves abruptly pinnate, multi-jugate. Flowers racemose, orange. Seeds glossy, oblong, red, with a black spot round the hilum. Roots used as a substitute for liquorice.
Abrus lævigatus
ABRUS lævigatus E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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racemes several-flowered, terminating leafy, lateral branches; rachis scarcely thickened in fruit; vexillum adnate to the base of the staminal tube, alæ shorter than the carina; legume subfalcate, 5 times longer than broad, 6–8-seeded, subglabrous and even. Very near A. pulchellus, Wall. Cat. 5819. It is easily known, when in fruit, from A. precatorius by the longer and narrower, several-seeded legume. The habit and foliage are similar, but the flowers are less numerous, and the flowering branch bears leaves nearly to the base of the raceme.
ABRUS precatorius Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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racemes densely many-flowered, terminating short, axillary, nearly leafless branches; rachis incrassated in fruit; vexillum nearly free; alæ shorter than the carina; legume quadrate-oblong, 2–2 1/2 times longer than broad, very oblique at base, about 5-seeded. Common throughout tropical Asia and Africa. Stems climbing, sparingly pubescent. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 10–20-jugate; leaflets oblong, blunt, pale green, glabrous above, minutely silky beneath, 4–8 lines long, 2–4 lines wide. Flowering branches axillary, longer or shorter than the leaves, very patent or divaricate, rarely quite leafless, generally with 1–2 leaves at base, and always pluri-stipulate in the lower part. Stipules subulate. Flowers red, 4–5 lines long. Legumes 1–1 1/2 inch long, 6–7 lines wide, in our specimens squamulose and pubescent, sometimes glabrous; seeds bright scarlet with a black spot round the short hilum.
Abutilon
ABUTILON Tourn. [family MALVACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Involucel none. Ovary of 5–20 or more carpels, closely united in a circle round a central torus; ovules 3–9 in each carpel. Stigmas capitate. Fruit of numerous follicular, membranous, 3–6 seeded carpels, dehiscing by the ventral suture and sub-persistent. Herbs, shrubby plants or tall shrubs, common throughout the tropics, the whole plant generally clothed with soft, velvetty hairs, sometimes also tomentose and stellate-hairy. Leaves on long petioles, cordate, sub-entire or angular. Flowers axillary, yellow or orange. Distinguished from Sida as well by habit, as by the numerous ovules and seeds.
ABUTILON indicum G. Don [family MALVACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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A. indicum is found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.
stems and petioles more or less velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, 3–5 angled or somewhat lobed, repand or crenate, soft, glabrescent on the upper, velvetty and canescent on the lower surface; stipules setaceous, reflexed, deciduous; peduncles axillary, one-flowered, longer than the petioles; calyx lobes ovate, mucronulate, velvetty and canescent, carpels 10–20, or more, truncate, their upper angles acuminate or cuspidate, stellato-pubescent. Sida indica Linn. Except in the cuspidate carpels, if this be a constant character, I scarcely see how this differs from the preceding. The pubescence, in our specimens, is less velvetty and more hairy than in S. Sonneratianum, and the leaves more decidedly lobed.
ABUTILON Sonneratianum var. β. prostrata [family MALVACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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small, prostrate, leaves obtusely 3-angled, quite entire. null
ABUTILON Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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A native also of tropical Asia, and often confounded with the following.
stems and petioles velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower; stipules setaceous; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx segments oblong-ovate, acuminate; carpels 9–10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. The whole plant is softly velvetty; the younger stems and branches are also clothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1–2 feet high. Flowers yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate.
Acacia
ACACIA Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Flowers frequently polygamous. Sepals 3–5, either connate in a campanulate calyx or free. Petals as many, more or less united in a monopetalous corolla, rarely at length free. Stamens numerous (mostly more than 50), free or connate at base, rarely (in male flowers) collected in a central column. Legumen various, mostly dry. Trees or shrubs, widely distributed. Leaves (at least the primordial) bipinnate. Glands on the upper margin of the petiole; petiolar below the lowest pair of pinnæ; jugal, smaller between or a little below the upper pair of pinnæ or all the pairs, and sometimes between the upper pairs of leaflets; often absent. Stipular or axillary spines often present, and the ends of branches sometimes spiny. Prickles in many. Flowers in heads or spikes, yellow. An immense genus, very abundant in Australia, where most of the species bear phyllodia, or leaflike petioles, in place of true leaves.
ACACIA Vulgares [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Stipules not spiny. Branches armed with sharp thorns or prickles, below the nodes or scattered. null
ACACIA Gummiferæ [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Stipules spinous; prickles none. null
ACACIA arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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A native of North Africa and Arabia, producing the gum-arabic of commerce.
tomentoso-pubescent; stipular-spines long or short, subulate or robust, at length white, straight, or subrecurved; pinnæ 4–8-jugate, with scutelliform glands and often a large petiolar gland; leaflets 10–20-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse, green, glabrous or ciliate; peduncles axillary, bracteate in the middle; heads globose; legume flat, linear, moniliform, tomentose, at length glabrescent, coriaceous, pulpy within. The Natal specimens belong to Bentham's var. β. Kraussiana, and have generally long spines, and a deeply crenate, but scarcely moniliform, tomentose pod. The peduncles, besides the terminal head, have sometimes flowers at the medial bracts.
ACACIA Burkei Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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young twigs and petioles patently hispid; prickles in pairs just below the nodes, recurved; petiole unarmed or armed, and with a petiolar gland below the pairs; pinnæ 3–6-jugate; leaflets 5–8-jugate, obliquely oblong or obovate, obtuse or mucronulate, the younger villous at margin; spikes tufted, loose, peduncled, rather longer than the leaf; legume? Zey! 571. Bark dark ashey-brown, rugged. Leaflets drying pale, 4 lines long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, the uppermost largest and obovate. Spikes 2–3 inches long. Legume not seen; supposed to be membranous by Bentham.
ACACIA caffra Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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subglabrous, the reddish-brown twigs, petioles, and peduncles minutely puberulous; prickles in pairs below the nodes, recurved, or none; pinnæ 8–14-pair, the unarmed petiole with a gland; leaflets 15–30-jugate, narrow-linear, glabrous or nearly so; calyx rather shorter than the corolla; legume linear, flat, bivalve. Spines small and often absent. Leaves 4–6 inches long, the pinnæ 2 1/2 inches long; pinnules 4 lines long, 1/2 line wide, paler beneath. Spikes often 3–4 inches long. Legume 3–3 1/2 inches long, 3–4 lines wide, 6–8-seeded, often irregularly sinuous at the margin.
ACACIA detinens Burch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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glabrous; prickles in pairs just below the nodes, recurved; petiole nearly unarmed; pinnæ about 3-jugate; leaflets unijugate, obliquely obovate, very obtuse; heads loose, subglobose; pedicels equalling the calyx; calyx truncate, one-third as long as the corolla; legume oval, flat, membranous, few-seeded. A shrub, 4–8 feet high; prickles very short.
ACACIA eriadenia Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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prickles scattered, small, straight or recurved, few; twigs, petioles, and peduncles tomentose; stipules membranous, semicordate, acuminate, villous, deciduous; pinnæ 6–10-jugate, the one or two petiolar, and the few jugal glands conical-tubercular, villous; leaflets about 20-jugate, obliquely linear, appressedly silky beneath; spikes elongate, loose, the uppermost in a raceme; flowers subsessile, glabrous; calyx half as long as the corolla. Twigs pale ash-coloured. Stipules 6–7 lines long, 2 lines wide. Leaflets 2 1/2–3 lines long, 1/2 line wide, pale, sometimes silky at the edges only. Petiolar gland very prominent. Legumes unknown.
ACACIA erioloba E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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stipular-spines straight; leaves glabrous, pallid; pinnæ trijugate, with glands at each pair; leaflets 8–10-jugate, linear-oblong, obtuse; legume woody, indehiscent, semilunate, tumid, tapering at each end, with a whitish, rough tomentum, spongy within. null
ACACIA ferox Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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young twigs and petioles patently hispidulous; prickles in pairs or threes just below the nodes, recurved; petiole aculeate; glands minute; pinnæ 4–6-jugate; leaflets 3–6-jugate, obliquely obovate oblong, very obtuse; heads subglobose, shortly pedunculate; legume oblong or broadly-linear, acute, flat, membranous, glabrous, few-seeded. Zey! 570. Bark dark ashen-grey, that of the older twigs rugose. Leaflets pale, 4 lines long, 1 1/2 wide. Legume 2 1/2–3 inches long, nearly an inch wide, 2–3-seeded.
Acacia giraffæ
ACACIA Giraffæ Burch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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quite glabrous; stipular-spines straight, strong, brown; pinnæ 1–3-jugate, with shield-like glands at most pairs; leaflets 8–15-jugate, oblong, linear, obtuse, thickish; peduncles crowded on abortive ramuli; legume oval, thick, indehiscent, spongy within. A tree, called Kameeldoorn, because the cameleopard browses chiefly on it, but known to the Bichuana natives as the Mokáala. It is much larger than the common karroo-thorn (A. horrida), with a thick and spreading umbrella-shaped head, and thick, brown thorns. The wood is excessively hard and heavy, of a dark, red-brown colour, and used by the Bichuanas for spoons and knife-handles, &c. Burchell, l. c.
ACACIA hebeclada DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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twigs, petioles, and peduncles patently tomento-hispid; stipular-spines subulate-conic, short, recurved, tomentose; pinnæ 3–7-jugate, with small, jugal glands; leaflets 12–15-jugate, pubescent, becoming glabrate, linear; peduncles bracteate above the base or in the middle; legume oblong, obtuse, very thick, coriaceous, yellowish, tomentose and obliquely striate, at first pulpy within, then hollow. All the younger parts hairy. Leaflets 3 lines long, 1/2 line wide, ciliolate or glabrate. Peduncles 1 1/2–2 inches long, the bracts deciduous, minute. Legumes 2–3 inches long, turgid, ochraceous.
ACACIA heteracantha Burch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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branches and petioles pubescent; stipular-spines either short and hooked back or very long and straight, all pubescent; pinnæ 5–10-jugate, with few, small, jugal glands; leaflets 10–15-jugate, oblong-linear, downy or glabrate; legume linear. A tree upwards of 20 feet high, with a tall trunk of 18 inches diameter, supporting a flat, wide-spreading, umbrella-like head. Burchell, l. c.
ACACIA hirtella E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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twigs, petioles, and leaflets minutely hairy; spines straight, subulate; pinnæ 6–8-jugate, with small glands; leaflets 10–15-jugate, oblong-linear; peduncles glabrescent, bracteate in the middle; legume stipitate, narrow-linear, subfalcate, flat, glabrous. I have not seen a legume; the foliage is like that of A. Arabica, β.
ACACIA horrida Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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glabrous; stipular spines short or long (on the older twigs longest), straight, ivory-white; twigs, peduncles, and petioles angular; pinnæ 2–5-jugate, with small glands; leaflets 5–12-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse or subacute; peduncles bracteate in the middle, the upper ones fasciculate-racemose; petals with revolute points; legume long, linear, flat, falcate, glabrous, coriaceous. This is the common Doorn-boom, or Karro-doorn, of the colonists. Spines 1/2 inch to 2–3 inches long, very sharp. Leaflets 3–4 lines long, 1–1 1/2 wide. Legume 4 inches long, 3 lines wide, with straight or irregularly sinuous margins.
Acacia hæmatoxylon
ACACIA hæmatoxylon Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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branches and leaflets thinly cano-tomentose; stipular-spines mostly long, straight, subulate; pinnæ 8–19-jugate, with few, small jugal glands; leaflets very small, 18–24-jugate, closely imbricate, canescent; legume linear, falcate, thick, tomentose, spongy within, with distant seeds. A shrub 8–16 feet high, with soft, pale green foliage. Spines very slender, straight, spreading, Leaves looking to the eye as if simply pectinato-pinnate, 8–19-jugate; but really bipinnate, the pinnæ 18–24-jugate. Leaflets very minute, lying very close together, as if cohering. Heads globose, on long peduncles. Burchell.
ACACIA Kraussiana Meisn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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scandent; prickles scattered, very small, numerous; twigs, petioles, and peduncles minutely downy or glabrate; petioles armed; pinnæ 3–5-jugate, with convex glands; leaflets 6–12-pair, obliquely oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous, shining above; heads globose, the peduncles racemoso-paniculate; ovary stipitate, pubescent; legume broadly-linear, membranous, flat, glabrous, straight, several-seeded, stipitate. A slender shrub, with flexuous or twining branches. Petioles mostly aculeate. Leaflets 4–5 lines long, 2 lines wide, paler beneath. Inflorescence disposed in terminal panicles. Legumes 3–4 inches long, the margin slightly sinuous. Prickles much smaller and leaflets larger than in A. pennata.
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