32 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [ Carpacoce. 
16. A. Ecklonis poe) ; shrubby; stem erect; branches and leaves 
pubescent-scabrous ; leaves opposite, reflewed, lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, mucronulate, with slightly recurved margins, whitish beneath ; 
stipules simple; flowers hermaphrodite, tetrandrous, axillary, subaggre- 
gated ; corolla scabrous-hairy outside; anthers linear; fruit obovate ; 
mericarps convex on the back, glabrous, destitute of calycine limb. 
Has. On the Olifantriver and near Villa Brakfontein, Clanw., Ecklon. (Herb., Sd.) 
Several feet high. Leaves 6 lines long, 1-1} line broad. Flowers white. Calyx 
minute, equal. Calyx-lobes longer than the tube. Fruit 1 line long. 
17. A. Lichtensteinii (Cruse! Diss. p. 15) ; stem erect, branched ; 
branches erect, downy at top; leaves opposite, linear, acute, keeled, cili- 
ated ; stipules simple, ciliated ; flowers hermaphrodite, tetrandrous, 
axillary, whorled; style very short ; stigmas long, hairy; fruit oblong ; 
mericarps hairy. ILann. 6, p. 16. E. Z. 2316. Spermacoce ericeefolia, 
Lichtst. in R. & Sch. syst. veg. 3, p. 281. 
Has. Sandy places near Capetown and in Hottentottsholland, Lichtenstein, B.§ Z. 
Drege. Nov.—Dec. (Herb. Sd.) 
Shrub, 1 or 2 ft., with glabrous, slender, terete branches, naked at the base. In- 
ternodes about as long as the leaves. Stipules minute. Leaves 2-3 lines long in 
the axils, with some smaller or equal leaves. Flowers 2-5, verticillate. Calyx with 
4 or § short, acute teeth. Limb of corolla longer than the tube. Stigmas long, 
hairy. Fruit 1} line long; mericarps convex at back, densely clothed with white, 
short hairs; the commissure a little concave. One of the mericarps is often abortive ; 
the fertile cell separated from the sterile by a deeply bi-parted spinule. 
18. A. Crocyllis (Sond.) ; stem erect; branches spreading, glabrous, 
minutely downy at top; leaves opposite, linear, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous ; 
stipules minute, bifid ; flowers hermaphrodite, pentandrous, paniculate; 
style bifid from the middle, stigmas papillate; fruit (when young) obo- 
vate ; mericarps hirsute. Crocyllis anthospermoides, E, Meyer. 
Has. Stony places near Verleptpram on the Garip, Drege; Namaqualand, A. 
Wyley. Sept. (Herb. Sd., D.) = % 
At first sight known from A. Lichtensteinii by the white, spreading branches and 
panicled inflorescence. Seemingly a large shrub. Leaves 3-6 lines long, about 1 
line broad, a little convex above, sulcate beneath, solitary or tufted, the ultimate 
short branches forming a cymose panicle. Flowers 2 lines long ; calyx 5-fid, with 
acute lobes ; corolla appressed-hairy outside ; tube conical, about as long as the 
lanceolate lobes. Anthers linear. Ovary didymous, clothed with long, white hairs, 
2-celled ; cells t-ovuled. Style glabrous ; the spreading stigmas sub-exserted. Ripe 
fruit unknown.—Perhaps to be separated from Anthospermum, as a distinct genus ? 
XXI. CARPACOCE, Sond. 
Flowers polygamous; hermaphrodite and male on the same plant. 
Herm. Fl.: Calyx 5-fid; lobes subulate, persistent, equal or 1 longer. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, tube short, limb 5-parted, lobes spreading, linear- 
lanceolate, with a reversed tooth above the thick-pointed apex. Stamens 
5, inserted in the tube ; filaments capillary; anthers linear-oblong. 
Ovary cuneate, 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Style very short, terminated by a very 
long, hairy stigma. J ruwit crowned by the calyx, 2-seeded, didymons, 
easily separated when ripe ; or 1-seeded by abortion. Seeds obovate or 
oblong, affixed atthe base. Commissure subconcave. Albumen subcartil- 
aginous. Male flowers: Calyzx as in the hermaphrodite flower. Corolla 
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