Portulacaria. | PORTULACEZ (Sond.) 385 
Caudex short. Stems 4—1 inch, beset with many rows of minute (1-2 lines long) 
thick leaves, the whole involved by a dense white wool. Stipules yellow or a little 
reddish, 5-6 lines long. Scape 1-3 inches long, 2-4 flowered. Flowers rose- 
coloured. Petals about 3 lines long, obtuse, surpassing the green calyx. 
Very like A. filamentosa, but more densely leafy, the leaves in many rows and 
woolly-tomentose, the stipules not so straight and the flowers smaller. 
8. A. lanceolata (DC. 1. c.) ; leaves lanceolate, fleshy, glabrous, con- 
vex beneath ; axillary hairs very long ; scape leafy, short, generally 
1-flowered. Portulaca lanceolata, Haw. Syn, 126. 
Has. Cape, Haworth, (unknown to me.) 
Stems very short. Calyx reddish. Petals reddish. Seeds almost 3-winged. It 
seems only a variety of A. telephiastrum. 
9. A. angustifolia (DC.1.c.) ; leaves fleshy, narrow-lanceolate, ex- 
panded ; stem short, branched. Rulingia angustifolia, Haw. Rev. 60. 
Has. Cape, Haworth. 
Very like the preceding, but smaller. 
Ill. TALINUM, Juss. 
Sepals 2, ovate, distinct and free, deciduous. Petals 5, ephemeral. 
Stamens 10-30, inserted with the petals in the bottom of the calyx, and 
often slightly attached to them. Style filiform, hispid at the apex. 
Capsule 3-valved, 1 celled, many-seeded. Seeds wingless, attached to a 
central placenta. DO.l.c. 356. Endl. gen. n. 5178. 
Herbaceous or suffrutescent fleshy plants. Leaves alternate, quite entire, exsti- 
pulate. Flowers cymose, racemose or panicled, fugacions. Name, probably from 
Gadia, a green branch. 
1. T. caffrum (E. Z. ! 1802); smooth, much branched ; branches al- 
ternate, erect or patent ; leaves oblong-linear or linear-lanceolate, mu- 
cronulate, with revolute margins ; flowers solitary in the axils of the 
upper leaves, erect, in fruit reflexed. Portulaca caffra, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
399. Anacampseros ramosa, E. Mey.! 
Var. 8. minus; branches short, 2-3 inches high ; leaves linear-oblong. 7’, minus, 
E.G:Z.1 1803.42. cei os 
Has. Caffraria, Thunberg! stony places in mountains Silo, Klipplaatrivier, 
Tambukiland, £. §Z./ Los-Tafelberg and Zwartekeysaily viugt near Steelkloof ; 
ooof, Drege ! ill, Zey./ 610. Var. B. 
Katriviersberg, Ceded Territory, E. § Z.! Crocodillrivier, Zey./ 609. Nov.—Dec. 
(Herb, Holm. Hook, D., Sd.) 
A perennial herb, 4-1 foot high ; branches terete, mostly undivided. Leaves on 
very short petioles, 8-12 lines long, 1-1} lines wide, in var. 8. 5-6 lines long. 
Flowering peduncles as long as the leaves or shorter, in fruit longer, (1 inch) and 
thick below the apex, bi-bracteolate in the middle. Sepals ovate, acute, 2 lines long, 
shorter than the yellow (Thunb.) broad ovate petals, about as long as the stamens. 
Copeale 3 lines long. Seeds sub-compressed, concentric, striated, black, the hilum 
strophiolum white. 
— 1V. PORTULACARIA, Jacq. 
Sepals 2, persistent, membranous. Petals 5, persistent, equal, obo-' 
vate, hypogynous. Stamens 5-7, inserted with the petals, but disposed 
without respect to their number (perhaps 10, of which 3-5 are abortive.) 
Anthers short, otten barren. Ovary ovate, triquetrous. Style none. 
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