30 RUBIACEZ (Sond.) [ Anthospermum. 
A foot or more high, with a long, nearly simple, woody root. Twigs reddish or 
brown. Internodes longer than the leaves. Stipules very small. Leaves shortly 
petiolate, 3-4 lines long, 2 lines broad. Corolla with a short tube. Anthers linear, 
white. Stigmas long, hairy. Ripe fruit unknown. 
9. A. hirtum (Cruse! Diss. p. 11); stem erect; branches erect- 
spreading, hairy as well as the leaves at the base ; leaves opposite, lan- 
ceolate, acute, ciliated when young ; stipules simple, subulate; flowers 
solitary or 2—5 aggregated, axillary, pentandrous; fruit obovate; meri- 
carps roundish outside, glabrous, papillate. #.Z. 2311. A. ciliare, a et 
2, mas. herb. Thunb. non fem. A. rubiaceum, Reichb.! in Spreng. syst. 4, 
p. 338. Herb. Un. Itin.n.29. A. lanceolatum, Sieb.! fl. cap. n. 90. A. 
hirsutum, DC. prod. 4, p. 580. 
Has, Mountains near Capetown, Bergius, Ecklon, Sieber, W. H. H. Piquetberg, 
Drege, 7677. Sept.—Jan. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
Stem 1-2 feet, purplish brown, branched. Leaves 1 inch long, 1-2 lines broad, 
acute or acuminate, with slightly recurved margins, pale or whitish beneath. Stipules 
1 line long. Flowers hairy outside. Tube of the corolla shorter than the lobes. 
Female flower solitary, Fruit 1 line long, destitute of the calycine limb. 
10. A. lanceolatum (Thunb. prodr. p. 32); stem procumbent or erect, 
much branched; branches glabrous or downy; leaves opposite, lanceo- 
late, acute, glabrous, or puberulous; stipules 2-4-parted, lobes subulate; 
flowers axillary, subverticillate, 4—5-androus ; fruit obovate-oblong ; 
mericarps convex at back, glabrous, or papillate. Thunb. herb. «a, et 8, 
non y. Cruse! Diss. p. 12, E. Z. 2310. A. herbaceum, L. fil. Suppl. p. 
440, A. nodosum, E. Mey. 
- Var. 8, latifolium; branches downy or densely hairy ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
mostly rusty beneath, downy, at length glabrous; fruit papillate. A. latifoliwm, E 
Mey. A. ferrugineum, E. Z.! 2309. 
_ Has, Cape dist., Thunb. Sieber, 239; Kleinfontein, Mundt, § Maire ; Kiynriviers- 
berg, and in distr. Uitenhage, #. Z. ; Plettenberg Bay, Dr. Pappe ; Howisonspoort, 
H. Hutton; Natal, Drege. Van. 8. in dist. Uit., Albany, and in Caffraria, BE. § Z., 
Zeyh. 2716, ex parte ; near Natal, Drege, Gueinzius, 468. Oct. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
Stem 1-3 feet; as well as the branches, reddish-brown. Leaves sessile, 1-14 inch 
long, 2-3 lines long, in var. 8, }-1 inch long, about 4 lines broad, with slightly re- 
curved margins, acute or acuminate, paler beneath, in var. 8, on the under side with 
brown resinous dots. Corolla with conical tube, and lanceolate-linear lobes. An- 
thers oblong. Fruit 1 line long. Very similar to A. hirtum, of which it has the 
habit and foliage; but the stipules are very different, and the leaves somewhat 
broader. In this species I often found female flowers on the lower twigs. 
11. A hedyotideum (Sond.); perennial; stems short, simple, or a 
little branched, as well as the leaves, minutely downy ; leaves opposite, 
ovate, acute, or ovate-lanceolate, with revolute margins ; stipules 3-fid, the 
lateral lobes smaller; flowers solitary, tetrandrous; fruit elliptic; meri- 
carps convex at the back, minutely papillate ; limb of calyx nearly 
obsolete, 
Has. Kreili’s Country, Caffraria, H. Bowker; Keiskamma, Drege. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stems many from the root, 3-4 inches high. Petiole nearly 1 line long. Leaves 
at length su! rous, acute at both ends, pale and with some lateral veins beneath. 
4-6 lines long, 2 lines broad. ules small. Calyx minute, 4-toothed. Lobes of 
the Pree am than the tube. Fruit 1 line long, the mericarps usually with a line 
on the 
