Tetragowia. | MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) 465 
11. T. Zeyheri (Kenzl.); suffruticose, decumbent, much branched, 
rough from large papule ; primary branches elongate, thick, flexuose, 
secondary numerous, approximate, leafy, often fasciculate-branched ; 
leaves oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, attenuated at the base, sessile, with re- 
volute or reflexed margins, when young linear ; flowers axillary, 1-3 
aggregate, disposed in a mostly leafy raceme, interrupted below, but 
dense above ; leafy bracts sublinear, generally as long as the flowers ; 
fruit 6-9 lines long, suborbicular, papulose-leprose, 4—5-winged, wings 
coriaceous-woody, often alternate with small or obsolete tubercles. 
T. tetrapteris, L. § Z.! 2125, non Haw. Aizoon perfoliatum, Thunb. ! 
Fl. Cap. 411. 
- Has. Sandy hills near Rietvalley, Thunb. E. & Z.! (Herb. Thunb. Jacq. Sd.) 
Nearly allied to 7. decumbens, and only distinguished by a higher, more woody 
stem, with numerous, very leafy branches, oblong, cuneate leaves, with revolute 
margins. Primary branches thicker than a goose’s quill, angulate. Larger leaves 
12-15 lines long, 5-7 lines wide, upper ones 2-3 times smaller. Pedicels 6 lines, 
upper ones 3-1 line long. (In herb. Thunb. is only a single branch, but it agrees 
pretty well with the specimens collected by Zeyher. Sond.) 
12, T. verrucosa (Fenzl.) ; suffruticose, erect, papulose-crystalline ; 
branches thick, rigid, at length woody ; lower leaves mostly ovate- 
oblong, the rest oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse ; petioles long-per- 
sistent, winged ; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, remote ; lobes of calyx 
broad-ovate, very blunt ; stamens very numerous ; fruit sessile, orbi- 
cular, 1 inch long, 3-locular, 3-winged, wings dotted, alternate with 3 
triangular tubercles. 
Var. a. latifolia; leafy bracts oblong or lanceolate. 
Var. 8. angustifolia; superior leaves as well as the leafy bracts broadly linear, 
with revolute margins. 
Has. Karrolike-hills, near Ebenezer, Clanwilliam, Drege, 7031. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
Subshrub }-1 foot, woody at the base, branches subtortuous, with a spo: 
pith, as thick as a pigeon’s quill. Leaves 1-14inch long, very fleshy. Calyx wi 
3-4 lobes, 
13. T. spicata (Linn. fil. Suppl. 258) ; suffruticose, branched at the 
decumbent base; branches ascendent or erect, virgate, papulose, gla- 
brous or puberous ; leaves pruinose, petiolate, ovate, oblong or lanceo- 
late, obtuse, acute or acuminate, rotundate or rhomboid at the base, 
flat, upper ones subsessile, linear with revolute margins ; flowers axil- 
lary, 3-7 aggregated, at length longish-pedicellate, disposed in a very 
long, interrupted, leafy raceme ; lobes of calyx ovate, acutish; fruit 4- 
winged, twrbinate, broader than long, retuse at the apex, acutely keeled 
between the smooth wings. 
tifolia; branches and branchlets mostly elongate, upper leaves ovate or 
pee on - racemes mostly elongate, interrupted. 7. Tensile E. § Z.1 2141. 
non Mill. Zeyh. 2629. 
. ; branchlets numerous, more abbreviate and fasciculate ; 
ion Se sessile, 0 long or lanceolate ; racemes often dense- 
oewad 2 T. spicata, L. Thunb, ! Cap. 409, E.& Z./ 2122. 1. tetrapteris, Haw. 
Mise. 121? nie node. etal his wae 2a 
Has. Fields near Zwartkopsriver, at ebosh and Saldanha-bay, 
E, § Z.! Howison’s Poort, &. Hutton ; Groenriver, Drege, 2931. Var. B. Zwart-: 
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