Psammotropha, | LXVIl. FICOIDEE (OLIVER). 593 
10. PPAMMOTROPHA, E. et Z.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i. 858. 
Flowers minute, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, midrib herbaceous, broadly 
White-margined. Petals 0. Stamens 5. Ovary 3-5-gonous, 3—5- 
celled; styles connate below or free, as many as cells; “‘ ovules soli- 
tary, ascending.” Capsule subglobose, 3—5-gonous, loculicidally 5- 
valved ; cells 1-seeded, seeds globose granulate.—Perennial somewhat 
rigid herbs, with a dense tuft of linear radical leaves and decumbent 
slender branches, with pseudo-verticillate leaves at the nodes. Sti ules 
Flowers greenish, in small glomerules at the nodes, sessile or 
pedicellate. 
A small genus, exclusively Cape, with this exception. 
1. P, myriantha, Sond. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 1475; var. 
fuillensis, Welw. mss. Persistent stem much thickened, wholly con- 
cealed by the densely tufted, narrow-linear l-nerved glabrous, shortly 
aristate radical leaves, 1 in. long more or less. Flowering branches 
ecumbent or ascending, 6-15 in. long, numerous in older specimens, 
glabrous, often reddish, with the lower internodes 1-2 in. Cauline 
®aves linear, rather fleshy, glaucous or pruinose, with or without a 
short awn, t-4 in. long. “Flowers ,—} in. diameter in 3-5-flowered 
sessile umbels from all the upper nodes, forming an interrupted leafy 
Spiciform inflorescence ; pedicels equalling the flower. Styles 5, united 
ow, at length radiate-divaricate above. 
Low i i : witsch ! 
Also Sith of the Toe vedieal aves reach twice the length, and the 
Plant would seem more erect in habit, 
ll. GISEKIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 859. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or occasionally polygamous. Sepals normally 
2°qual, broadly elliptical obovate or rotundate. Petals 0. Stamens 2 
» !Ypogynous, free or cohering shortly in phalanges. — 5 a y 
» istinct, sessile, 1-celled, 1-ovulate; style short, recurved, longi 
tudinally Stigmatose. Achenes with a thin papillose-tubercled era 
Carp; seed vertical, more or less compressed.—Diffuse annual herbs. 
aves subopposite, rather fleshy, linear to oblanceolate, ent 
abounding in raphidian cells; exstipulate. Flowers small, subsessile 
*r pedicellate in sessile fascicles at the nodes or pedunculate umbels. 
A small genus of Africa, India, and intermediate region. 
OWers 5-androus, 
Ymes usually nearly sessile at the nodes ; pedicels short 1. rs — vides. 
Fi ymes on slender peduncles, at length panicled : - 2. G. Miltue. 
moe S-O0-nndrous 3. 6 ss se es ot) Ar ore 
9 27. A diffuse 
1 & ; inn. : rod. xiii. pt. 2 
- pharnaceoides, Linn.; DC. Prod. t. ~, ne ered 
decumbent or prostrate annual, wholly glabrous, with wer opiate 
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