466 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [ Tetragonia. 
kopsriver and Kenkoriver, Z. § Z./ Paarl and Pardeberg, Drege, 7043, 7046, 7047 ; 
Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe. (Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
A very polymorphous species —the var. a. nearly allied to 7. decumbens, var. B. to 
T. fruticosa. It differs from the first by a more shrubby habit, ovate or ovate-oblong, 
small petiolate leaves ; from 7. fruticosa by the abrupt petiolate leaves, with rotun- 
date base, and by the twice smaller fruit. Primary flowering branches 3-12 inches 
long. Larger leaves 1-2 inches long, 4-9 lines wide. The fascicles of flowers often 
somewhat compound. Flowers very often hermaphrodite-monecious, pedicels of 
the sterile flowers 2-3 lines, of the fertile flowers 4-7 lines long, as well as the calyx 
often densely papulose-puberulous. Stamens very numerous. Styles 2-4, in the 
sterile flower mostly 1. Fruit 3—5 lines long, 4-6 lines wide. 
14, T. fruticosa (Linn, Spec. 687) ; suffruticose, erect or ascending, 
much branched, branches virgate, branchlets fasciculate ; leaves sessile 
or subsessile, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, attenuated at the base, with 
more or less revolute margins, papulose ; flowers axillary, yellow, 2-5 
aggregated, pedicellate, disposed in an elongated bracteolate or leafless 
raceme ; pedicels 2-8 lines long as well as the calyx papulose or prui- 
nose subhirsute ; lobes of calyx broad, ovate, very blunt ; fruit 14 inch 
‘or larger, obovate, 4-winged, 3-4-locular ; wings very large, membrana- 
— papulose, alternate with four long tubercles. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 
408, 
Var. a. lanceolata; leaves much attenuated at the base, subsessile, a few revolute. 
at the margins, larger ones lanceolate or broad-linear. 1’. fruticosa, DC. 1. c. Comm. 
Hort. Amst. IT. t. 103. Zeyher, 2628 a. 
Van. 8. linearis ; leaves sessile, with revolute or conduplicate-revolute margins. 
T. linearis, Haw. Rev. 73? DC.1.¢. T. fruticosa, E. § Z.! 2124. Mill. ge. t. 263. 
f. 2. Zeyh. 2630. Herb. Un. itin. n. 789. 
Has. Hills near Zwartkopsriver and Zondagsriver, Z. § Z. / Olifantsriver, Drege, 
ia oa? 0 — B. et en te erg the eas of Zwellendam, 
3 : in es = , a . 
(Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sa) Scout tts et at hd 
A large under-shrub woody at the base. Flowering branches 4-1} foot high. 
Leaves 4-14 inch long and }-~3 lines wide. It differs from 7’. spicata and its varieties 
by the very large fruit and the leaves not rounded at the base, but gradually attenu- 
ated in a short petiole, or perfectly sessile. 
15. T. psiloptera (Fenzl.) ; herbaceous but suffruticose at the base, 
erect ; leaves carnose, sessile, lanceolate, acutish, attenuate at the base; 
leafy bracts linear, with subrevolute margins ; flowers axillary, ternate 
or 5-nate, subracemose ; pedicels 14-24 lines long, densely papulose ; 
lobes of calyx linear, bluntish ; stamens 10-15 ; style 1; fruit orbicular, 
4-6 lines long, 4-winged, very smooth; tubercles none. 
Has. Mount Giftberg, Clanwilliam, 1500-2000 ft. - Od. 
4-1 foot high, with the habit of 7° ara ‘eae ar tee ak Craver 
quill, The fascicles of flowers form often minute racemes. Lobes of calyx 
14-2§ lines long. 
16. T. calycina (Fenzl.) ; suffruticose, diffuse, much branched, prui- 
nose-papulose ; flowering branches undivided ; leaves carnose, lanceo- 
late or linear-lanceolate, acutish, attenuated in a distinct petiole, i 
revolute ; flowers axillary, solitary or geminate, disposed in a 
nearly leafless raceme ; pedicels 1 inch or shorter ; lobes of calyx linear, 
