26 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [Galopina. 
outer side, with eroso-denticulate margin ; corolla 4-lobed ; capsule 
oblong-ovate, angulate-striate, compressed, crowned by the conniyent 
calyx. Diodia carnosa, Hochst, pl. Krauss. 
Has. Sandy sea-coast of Zitzikamma, Krauss. 1667 ; Port Natal, Gerrard and 
M‘Ken, 350. Mar.—Jul. (Herb. D. Sd.) 
Habit of Arenaria peploides, but larger. Stipules 3-4 lines long. Leaves 4 inch 
long, 2 lines broad, flat above, with a minute point. Flowers white, 4 as long as 
the leaf. Fruit 3 lines long, 2 lines broad. Nearly allied to H. maritima, L. 
TRIBE VII.—ANTHOSPERMEE (Gen. X1X.—XXII.) 
XIX. GALOPINA, Thunb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, dioecious or polygamous. Calyzx-tube obovate, 
limb 4—parted, very small, scarcely any. Corolla subrotate, 4—5-parted ; 
lobes oblong, lanceolate, patent-reflexed. Stamens 3-5, inserted in the 
base of the corolla. Anthers oblong, slightly exserted. Styles 2, with 
long hairy stigmas. Fruit obovato-didymous, consisting of 2 mericarps, 
at length separating, indehiscent, warted at back, 1-seeded, with a flat 
or flattish commissure. DC. 1. c. 4, p. 579. Anthospermi spec. Thunb. 
Prod. p. 23. Phyllis spec. Cruse, Linn. 6, p.19. Galopina et Oxyspermum, 
£. Z. enum. p. 364. 
Perennial herbs, with opposite ovate or ovato-lanceolate leaves, and terminal lax 
panicles of small flowers. Name unexplained. 
1, G. circwoides (Thunb. Diss. Nov. Gen. 1, p. 3); glabrous; leaves 
ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering into the petiole, scabrous on the 
margins ; panicle expanded ; pedicels capillary, elongated ; flowers 
hermaphrodite. 2. § Z. 2304. Zeyh. 2712. Anthospermum galopina, 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. p.356. Phyllis galopina, Cruse, 1. c. 
Has. Shady, moist places from Swellendam to Albany, and in Caffraria. Jan.—Feb. 
(Herb. Thunb., 8d., D.) 
Stem rather angular, with 2 elevated lines which run from the stipules, 2 feet and 
more in height, branched, quite glabrous, very rarely in the lower part a little downy. 
Stipules 3-forked. Petiole 3-6 lines long. Leaves 14—3 inches long, 4-3 inch broad. 
The trichotomous panicle often 1 foot in diameter. Bracts subulate. Pedicels 4~1 
inch long. Ripe fruit about 7 line long and broad ; mericarps convex at back. 
2, G. aspera (Sond.); tomentose; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, subcordate at the base, on very short petioles ; panicle oblong ; 
flowers dioecious or polygamous. Oxyspermum asperum, HE. § Z. 2305. 
G. hirsuta, HZ, Mey. G. tomentosa, Hochst. — 
Has. Katriviersberg, near Philipstown, 7. § Z., H. Hutton; Natal on the Um- 
laasriver, and near D’Urban, Drege, Krauss., J. Sanderson, Gerr. § M‘Ken, 828. 
Mar.—Jun. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stem 2-3 feet, stiff, simple, 4-cornered, as well as the leaves and panicle densel 
covered with short greyish hairs, Leaves with some smaller in the axils, Be oR 
long, 6-10 lines broad, quite entire, when old often subscabrous. Stipules 3-6-parted. 
Panicle 4-14 ft. long, trichotomously compound, leafy or nearly naked ; the branches 
and pedicels erect, spreading, rough-hairy in fruit, much shorter and more rigid than 
in G. circeoides. The specimens from Caffraria are polygamous (and hermaphrodite, 
E. & Z,), tho&e from Natal mostly dioecious. Fruit obovate, densely papillate; 4-7 
line long. 
~ XX. ANTHOSPERMUM, Linn. 
Calyx-tube obovate ; limb 4—5-toothed. Corolla tubular, limb 4-5- 
