28 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [Anthospermum. 
teeth. Hort. Cliff. 455, t.27. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 157. Cruse, Diss. p. 10. 
E. §& Z.1 2307. © 
Var. a. ternifolium (Cruse! Lc. p. 15); leaves 3 in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, 
acute; branches straight. A. ethiop., var. y. verticillata, herb. Thunb. ; var. a, et B. 
E. § Z.1.¢, herb. Un. Itin. 24. 
Var. 8. oppositifolium (Cruse! lc. p. 11); leaves opposite, linear-subspathulate, 
sometimes bluntish; branches virgate, erect-spreading. A. awthiop. a. et B. Herb. 
Thunb. A. spathulatum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1, p. 399. Var. y. ed. E. § Z.l,c, Herb. 
Un. Itin. 4, 5, 7,9, 11, 25, 26. Drege, 7661, 7666, 9551. Zeyh. 2714. 
Var. y. Ecklonianum (Cruse! Linn, 6, p. 10); leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, Var.e. E. gd Z.l.c. A. spath. var. longifolium, E. Mey. 
Var. 3. montanum; leaves opposite, lanceolate, bluntish, mucronulate; branches 
shorter, very leafy. Var. ¢. alpmum, E. § Z. l. ¢. 
Has. On plains and mountains, common. Aug.—Jan. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd. 
A very variable woody shrublet, 3-3 ft. high, much branched, greyish-brown. 
Branches opposite or ternate. Leaves aggregated, 3-8 lines long, 4-1} line broad, 
with revolute margins, shining and dotted above, pale with prominent middle nerve 
beneath. Stipules minute. lowers 2-4 times shorter than the leaves, usually 2-6 
or more in a tuft. Cor. with a 4-parted limb, equalling the tube. Fruit 1 line long. 
2. A. prostratum (Sond.); stem elongate, prostate, rooting; branches 
short, downy or glabrous; leaves opposite, lanceolate or subspathulate, 
mucronate, glabrous, with revolute margins; flowers solvtary, tetran- 
drous ; fruit obcordate ; mericarps roundish on the back, minutely 
downy or glabrous ; calyx-teeth nearly obsolete. 
Var, a. velutinum; stem, branches, and fruit minutely-downy. 
Var. 8. glabrum; stem, branches, and fruit quite glabrous. 
. Has, Cape flats, var. a. C. Wright, 491; var. B. Ecklon. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Root woody, 4-1 foot, stem 1~3 feet high, rooting at the internodes. Branches 
1 inch or a finger long. ‘Leaves nearly as in A. spathulatum, Spr. or a little larger, 
not whitish, but mostly rufous beneath. Female flowers as in A. ethiopicum, stigmas 
very long, hairy. Fruit as long, but a little broader and more emarginate than in 
the preceding. 
3. A. tricostatum (Sond.); stem erect, branched; branches slender, 
downy ; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins, gla- 
brous ; flowers solitary, tetrandrous; fruit oblong; mericarps cuneate, 
prominently 3-ribbed at back, glabrous, minutely-dotted ; calyx-teeth 
nearly obsolete. 
Has. Rietvallei, Z. § Z.; between Drickoppen and Bloodriver, Drege, 9550. 
April-Nov. (Herb. Sd.) 
A woody shrub, with the habit of A. wthiopicum, var. B. Leaves aggregated, 
3-4 lines long, acute. Fruit 14-2 lines long; the mericarps with 2 prominent 
marginal and a dorsal rib ; the bipartite spine, separating the mericarps, about half 
as long as the fruit. Stigmas very long and hairy. 
4. A. ciliare (Linn. Spec. 1521); stem decumbent or suberect ; 
branches downy; leaves opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
ciliated, when old often without cilia, with revolute margins ; flowers 
solitary, or 2-4 together, tetrandrous; fruit obcordate; mericarps round- 
ish at back, glabrous, shining, destitute of calycine limb. Thunb. ! 1. ¢. 
p. 157. Herb. ex pte. Cruse, Diss. p.13. Plukn. Mant. 51, t. 344,f- 5. 4: 
galordes, Reichb. Spreng. Syst. Veg. c. p, 1V. 2, p. 338. E. & 4.2308, A. 
