Anthospermum. | RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 31 
12. A. paniculatum (Cruse! Diss. p. 15, t. 1, f£ 2); stem erect, 
branched from the base, branches downy ; leaves ‘opposite, linear-sub- 
spathulate ; stipules short, simple; flowers panicled, tetrandrous ; fruit 
obovate; mericarps 3- -ribbed, glabrous, #.2Z. 2314. A. Aithiopicum, jem. 
herb. Thunb. 
Has. Houtniquas and Hanglip, Mundt and Maire ; Winterhoeksberg, Kraka- 
kamma and Stadensriviersberg, Uit., Grahamstown, and in Caffraria, F. § 2, Zeyh. 
2715; Howisonspoort, H. Hutton. Oct.Jul. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.) 
Root woody. Stem 1-1} ft.; branches reddish, very leafy. Leaves aggregate, 
quite glabrous, with revolute margins, narrowed at base, 4~5 lines long, 3 line broad. 
Panicle terminal, narrow, 2-6 inches long. Flowers divecious, but in a few speci- 
mens I observed polygamous flowers. Corolla with linear- lanceolate lobes longer 
than the short tube, Fruit about 2 lines long, crowned by the 4 erect, acute, caly- 
cine lobes. 
13. A. calycophyllum (Sond.) ; stem shrubby, erect, branched ; twigs 
pubescent ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, glabrous; 
flowers hermaphrodite, pentandrous, disposed in a short, terminal spike; 
calyx 5-toothed, teeth unequal, 4 very minute ; fruit elliptic-oblong, 
downy; mericarps convex at back, one of them tipped by the large leafy 
calycine lobe. 
ae Ra berg, Burke and Zeyher; Natal, Dr. Sutherland, J. Sanderson, 
er 
( One or staal: feet high, much branched. Stipules minute, simple, subulate. 
Leaves 4-5 lines long, 13-2 lines broad, coriaceous, acute, with slightly revolute 
margins. Terminal spike about 4 inch long, the flowers mostly geminate on very 
short pedicels, in the axils of the soon deciduous, ciliate leaves. Fl. hermaphrodite, 
rarely polygamous. Four of the calyx-teeth nearly obsolete, the fifth expanded to a 
leaf. Tube of the corolla twice longer than the lobes. Anthers oblong. Roo 
elongated. Fruit 1 line long. The leafy calyx-lobes oblong, acute, equalling or 
little longer than the easily separated mericarps. 
14. A. pumilum (Sond.) ; perennial; stems numerous, erect, simple 
minutely downy; leaves opposite, erect, linear-lanceolate, bluntish, cili- 
olate-scabrous on the revolute margins ; stipules simple ; flowers herma- 
phrodite, tetrandrous, axillary, solitary or geminate ; anthers ob/ong ; 
fruit obcordate ; mericarps convex at the back, glabrous, shining. 
Has. Caledon River, Zeyher. Jan. Bde}: 
a saa ae with the habit of 4. . _ Leaves 2-3 lines long, aggre- 
convex above e revi margins. small; calyx -toothed, sy eu 
Fruit 1 line long; aasierpe crowned by the minute or rudimentary ; ealyx-teeth. 
15. A. rigidum (E. Z.! n. 2315); suffruticose ; stems erect, woody, 
much branched ; branches minutely downy ; leaves opposite, spreading, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, a little scabrous, with revolute margins; stipules 
simple ; flowers polygamous, tetrandrous, axillary, aggregate ; corolla 
glabrous outside; anthers linear ; fruit obovate-oblong ; mericarps con- 
eth at back, glabrous, minutely punctate, crowned by the minute calysc- 
_ Hap. Karroo, near the Gauritzriver, Swell., E.G Z.3 Nieuwejaars-pruit, between 
Garip and Caledonriver, at the foot of the Wit ergen, Zeyh. Oct.—_Dec. (Herb, Sd.) 
Root thick, woody, ‘about 1 foot long, simple. 
Leaves 4-6 lines long, about $ of a line pointed, shining above. Flowers 
2—5-together. Calyx minute, equal. Corolla white, lo lobe. about as long as the tube. 
Stigmas long, ee Fruit 1 line long. 
