462 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [ Tetragonia. 
Has. Stony places near Zilverfontein, Namaqualand. Drege! 2932, 7023, 7029. 
Var. 8. near the Garip, Drege! 7026, and Ebenezar, Drege! 7035 ; Bitterfontein, 
Betchuana territory, Zeyher 716. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
Stem and primary branches 3-1 foot, or only 2-5 inches high. Leaves very varia- 
ble in size, 1-2 inches or 3-8 lines long, as well as the flowers green. It is distin- 
guished from the following only by the winged, not echinate fruit. 
2. T. echinata (Ait. Kew. 2.177); herbaceous, glabrous, diffuse ; 
leaves rhomboid-ovate or oblong, petiolate, petiole very short ; flowers 
axillary pedicellate, solitary or 2-4 subglomerate, very minute; fruit 
ovoid, truncate at the base, 3-4-angular, 3—-4-locular, crystalline-papu- 
lose, echinate by very patent or reflexed cornicles. Haw. Misc. 123. DC. 
Prod. 3. 432. Pl. grass, t. 113, £. & Z. / 2116, 
Has. Karrolike hills near Zwartkops, and Sondagsriver, FE. ¢ Z., Zeyh. / 2627. 
Albany, Drege, 7028. (Herb-“Vind. D. Sd.) 
Section II. TETRAGONOCARPUS, Commel. (Sp. 3-23.) 
3. T. herbacea (Linn. spec. 687); root (rhizoma ?) tuberous or fusi- 
form-strumose ; stems herbaceous, prostrate, as well as the pedicels and 
flowers papulose-hirsute ; leaves 4-14 inch long, 2-6 lines wide, rhom- 
boid-ovate, elliptic or oblong, attenuated in the petiole, crystalline- 
papulose ; flowers axillary on very long pedicels, the lower solitary, 
terminal ones 3-9 corymbose or subumbellate ; lobes of calyx broad ovate 
or oblong, 13-34 lines long ; stamens very numerous ; fruit pendulous 
oblong, drupaceous, fleshy, 4-winged, 3-4 often by abortion 1-2 seeded. 
Commel. hort. Amstel. II. t. 102, Haw. Mise. 122, DO. 1. ¢. 452. EB. Z.! 
2115. 
Has. Sandy places in the Cape Flats and on mountains near Capetown, on Hex- 
river, Bergvallei, and Krom river. E. § Z., Pappe. Zeyh. 715 b. Krauss. Drege! 
394, 2932, 7027. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
Stems very lax, simple or more or less branched, 4-1 foot. Pedicels filiform, in 
flower 4-2 inches long, } line thick. It differs from the two following especially by 
twice or thrice larger flowers, with longer and thicker pedicels, of which the lower 
are solitary, the uppermost umbellate, and by papulose-hirsute, not minutely crys- 
talline-pruinous or pubescent branches and pedicels. 
4. T. portulacoides (Fenzl.); root (rhizoma?) fusiform ; stems herba- 
ceous, thin, filiform, prostrate, virgately branched, as well as the leaves, 
pedicels and calyxes papulose-pruinose ; leaves 8-18 lines long, 2-5 
lines wide; ovoid or spathulate-oblong, obtuse, attenuated in the 
petiole ; flowers axillary, lower pedicels 2~3-nate, superior 4-7 umbel- 
late ; pedicels filiform, lax, 4-12 lines long; lobes of calyx ovate or 
oblong, 14-2 lines long ; stamens very numerous ; styles as long as the 
calyx ; fruit pendulous obovate-oblong, at length suborbicular, 3-5 locu- 
lar, 8—ro lin. long, 4-winged, wings membranaceous. T.. chenopodioides 
et nigrescens, E. & Z.! plant ex sice. ex parte. 
Has. Sandy places in Cape Flats, Rietvalley and Duykervalley, and on moun- 
tains near Cai Th 3 atoat i- 
tubes, Poe.” Hak Tees CG ee oe 
_ Distinguished from T. herbacea by the tender and smooth stem and leaves and 
smaller flowers; from T. nigrescens by the same character and the style. (The two 
specimens in herb. Thunberg belong to this, not to the preceding species. Sond.) 
