592 LXVII, FICOIDEH (OLIVER). [ Mollugo. 
equalling the capsule. ‘Stamens 3-4.” Styles 3, shortly distinctly 
exserted. Stigmas capitellate. Seeds unappendaged, renitorm, com- 
pressed, with very minutely transversely notched longitudinal ridges.— 
M. Schrankii, Ser. in DC. Prod. i. 391. Further synonymy, see 
Fenzl, l.c. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Angola, Dr Welwitsch! 
Also American, chiefly intertropical. 
7. M. fragilis, Wawr. et Peyr. Sert. Beng. 25. Diffuse "or prostrate 
(not erect as described by W. and P.), much-branched perennial or bi- 
ennial wholly glabrous glaucous or pruinose herb, from a few inches to 
1 ft. in height; branches filiform with internodes usually of $—1 in. 
Leaves pseudo-verticillate oblanceolate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, 
entire, averaging 1-Lin. in length. Flowers in usually 3—4-flowered 
eee umbels from nearly every node; peduncle and pedicels 
liform, subequal, }-} in., involucel minute. Sepals obovate, broadly 
white membrane-margined. Stamens 5. Stigmas 3-4, minute sub- 
sessile. Seeds unappendaged, nearly quite smooth. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda and Ambriz, Congo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
9. PHARNACEUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i, 857. 
Sepals 5, nearly equal, membranous-margined, persistent. Petals 0. 
Stamens 5-10 (3-& ), subhypogynous. Disk lobed or 0. Ovary free, 
3-5-celled; stigmas as many as cells, short; ovules oo, axile. Cap- 
sule membranous, 3—5-celled, loculicidally 83—5-valved ; seeds smooth, 
shining or minutely granulate, unappendaged.—Annual or perennial 
low herbs, often frutescent at base. Leaves alternate or pseudo-vertl- 
cillate, fleshy, terete (or various), stipulate ; stipules scarious, setaceous- 
fimbriate or leaf-sheath with a subulate tooth on each side. Flowers 
in pedunculate umbels (or variously cymose). 
Almost exclusively confined to the Cape of Good Hope. The following species is 
nearly allied to P. acidwm, Hook. f., of St. Helena. 
1. P. verrucosum, £. et Z. Enum. 286. Var. Low herb, with 
procumbent or prostrate woody branching stock, wholly elabrous ; 
annual or persisting two or more years. Leaves crowded at the extre- 
mities, ascending, subterete, 3-1 in. long, #1, in. diameter more OF 
less when dry, with a stipuliform tooth at each side of the sheathing 
base. Flowers } in. diameter, more or less, in pedunculate umbels 3 
ee usually naked, occasionally verrucose, 14-8 in. long ; IV° 
ucral bracts minute, ovate, membranous; pedicels slender, straight, 
3-6 to each umbel, }-}in. long. Sepals broadly elliptical obtuse, 
sometimes with the pedicels minutely verrucose. ‘Stamens usually ¢; 
varying 1—5 or 7—9 (Dr. Welwitsch).—Hypertelis verrucosa, Fenzl, Monog- 
Mollug. 262 (£xtr.). 
Lower Guinea. Near Mossamedes, Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch! 
» And at the Cape. 
