464 | MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [Tetragonia. 
rarely subsolitary, very minute, yellow, hirsute, at the top of the branch- 
lets fasciculate or spicate ; calyx mostly 4-parted, lobes linear ; stamens 
5-8 ; styles 1; fruit sessile, monospermous, orbicular, 3-5 lines long, 
4-winged, wings alternating with 4 acute triquetrous tubercles. 
Has. Rocky places, Uienvallei, Onderbokkeveld and between Boschkloof and 
Honigvallei, near Mount Blauwberg, 2500-3000 ft., Drege 7034. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
In habit it comes near 7. erystallina, stems 4-1 foot, much branched. Larger 
leaves often 3 inches, the uppermost only 3-4 lines long, lanceolate. Flowers about 
1-1} lines long. Fruit when dry, cribose-punctate with papulae. 
9. T. hirsuta (Linn. fil. Suppl. 258); suffruticose, prostrate; flori- 
ferous branches erect, hirsute ; leaves elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, 
and attenuated at the base, petiolate, on the margins or on both sides 
hirsute or denudate and papulose ; flowers axillary, 3-5 laxly glomerate 
on short pedicels, forming a leafy or leafless interrupted raceme ; calyx 
4-6 lines long, lobes oval or oblong, mostly hirsute; stamens very 
numerous ; style deeply 3—5-parted ; fruit 4~winged, q-locular. Thund.!/ 
Jl. cap. 408, 
Var. a. hirsutissima ; the whole plant densely hirsute by long, simple, horizon-— 
tal, when dry, pellucid-paleaceous hairs. 7’. hirsuta, Haw. Misc. 119. DO. l.c. 
_ Var. B. denudata; leaves denudate, papulose, lobes of calyx subglabrous, but at 
the top and on the tube hirsute. 
Has. Sandy hills in Zwartland near Olifantsriver, etc., Thunb. Zeyh. 713 ; Brack- 
fontein and Heerenlogement, FE. § Z./ Pappe. ; Cederbergen, Langevallei and Berg- 
vallei, Drege, 7024. 7025. 7032. 7052. (Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
Branches at length woody, branchlets 3-12 inches, sometimes fasciculate. 
Leaves acute or obtuse or rotundate, 1-3} inches long ; hairs often 1 line long. 
Styles always connate at the base. Wings of the fruit according to Thunberg’s 
description, crispate, villous. (Fruit in Thunberg’s herbarium orbicular, 1 inch 
long and broad, beset with scattered hairs; the 4 wings large, membranaceous, 
shining, veined, in the dry state somewhat undulated, 4-locular. Sond.) 
10, T. decumbens (Mill. Dict. n. 2); suffrutescent, decumbent, 
branches woody at the base, annual ones elongate, simple or with 
short branchlets at the base, rough from papule ; leaves broad-ovate, 
cuneate, subsessile, or ovate, rhomboid-ovate or oblong, attenuated in a 
short, broad petiole, superior ones spathulate-oblong, flat ; flowers 
axillary, 3—5, aggregated, on unequal pedicels, disposed in a very long, 
interrupted-leafy raceme ; leafy bracts ovate or spathulate ; fruit 6-9 
lines long, suborbicular, 4-5-winged, papulose-leprose, wings often al- 
ternate with tubercles. 
Var. a. obovata; leaves mostly obovate, subsessile or sessile, larger ones more 
than 2 inches long and often 1 inch wide. 7. obovata, Haw. Rev. 73. DO. l. c- 
E. & Z. | 2126. « . 
Var. 8. ovalifolia; leaves mostly oval or rhomboid-obovate, 4-14 inch long, 4-6 
PL crak net s, Mill. Ic. t. 263. f. 1. Haw. Misc. 121. DC. Ul. ¢. var. ¥- 
Var. +. oblongifolia; lower lea: - sole. 7. 
decumbens, Krauss. ees Aes long, attenuated in a petiole 
Has. Sandy places, Table Bay and Zwartkopftiver, £. G Z.! Drege. 7033 ; var. B. 
Table Bay and Simons Bay, . Pappe, C. Wright ; var. y. Zwartevalley, George, 
Kraus. ; Zwartko ; ver, Zeyh. 2631. (Herb. Vind. D. $d.) 
: -triennial, 1-1} | high, primary branches as thick as a goose’s quill, with or 
without axillary fasciculate branchlets, leaves broadly-petiolate, rotundate. 
