Tetragonia. | MESEMBRYACEE (Sond.) 467 
bluntish, 2-24 lines long; stamens very numerous; fruit 8-to lines 
long, suborbicular, with four large wings, not costate, 3-4 locular. 
Has. Cape, Drege, 7059. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
Decumbent subshrub ; annual branches as large as a raven’s quill. Leaves 1 inch 
or shorter, 24-1 line wide, scattered, with a few fascicles in the axils. From 7’. 
fruticosa it is distinguished by the distinctly petiolate leaves and linear not broadly 
ovate calyx segments. 
17. T. distorta (Fenzl.) ; frutescent, much branched, squarrose-dis- 
tort, nearly smooth; leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate or linear, bluntish, 
conduplicate-revolute, papulose-pruinose ; flowers axillary, 2-3-nate, or 
solitary ; pedicels 24-4 lines long; lobes of the pruinose calyx ovate, 
bluntish, 1-14 line long ; stamens 12-15 ; style 1, filiform, elongate, 
arcuate ; fruit papulose-pruinose, at length very smooth, 8—10 lines 
long, orbicular, unilocular, with four wings and another four alternate 
small ones on triangular tubercles. 
Has. Between Ebenezer and Giftberg, near Olifantsriver, Clanwilliam, and in 
Little Namaqualand, Drege, 7044. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
A small, stiff shrub, very squarrose, in habit nearer to the following than to the 
preceding. ‘Leaves generally 6 lines long, 1 line wide or narrower. 
18. T. arbuscula (Fenzl.); suffruticose, much branched, glabrous ; 
branches diffuse, woody, virgate ; branchlets abbreviate, leafy ; leaves 
ovate-oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, attenuated in a short petiole, 
flat, not revolute at the margins ; flowers 2-3, pedicellate in the axils 
of the leaves, disposed in a long leafy raceme ; lobes of calyx broad- 
ovate, very blunt ; stamens 20-30; styles 2-3, a little longer than the 
calyx ; fruit 4 inch, shining, obovate-orbicular, 2-3-locular, with 3 or 4 
wings and 4 alternate, obsolete coste. 
Van. a. linearis ; leaves linear or lanceolate, 4-10 lines long, 4-2 lines wide ; 
pedicels of flowers 24-4 lines long. 
Var. 8. latifolia; leaves obovate-oblong, 4-10 lines long, 2-4 lines wide, upper- 
most lanceolate ; pedicels of flowers 1-3 lines long. : 
Has. Sneeuwbergen, and near Steelkloof, 4-5000 ft. Drege, 659, 7036, 7040 ; 
Gamkariver, Burke and Zeyher, 712. Var. 8. Gamkariver, Drege, 7048. (Herb. 
Vind. D. Sd.) : 
Leaves 4-10 lines long. Calyx-lobes mostly 14 line long. Allied to 7. fruti- 
cosa ; differs by the woody branches and branchlets, smaller flowers and fruit, and 
more exserted styles. 
19. T. robusta (Fenzl.) ; frutescent, erect, much branched ; branches 
very straight, virgate, branchlets many-leaved, papulose-pruinose ; leaves 
crowded, sessile, ovate, oblong or sublinear, obtuse, with revolute or eon- 
duplicate margins ; flowers very numerous, solitary or 3—5-nate, pedi- 
cellate, in the axils of the leaves disposed in a longish raceme, yellow, 
minute, hermaphrodite-moneecious ; lobes of the 3-4-parted calyx 
ovate, fertile 4-6-androus, 2-4-gynous, sterile 8-12-androus, 1-gynous, - 
or by abortion of the ovary male; anthers oval, not linear; fruit orbi- 
cular, 6-8 lines long, 2~4-locular, 3-4-winged, very smooth, and with- 
out costae. 7 ; 
Has. Namaqualand, between Koussie-river and Zilverfontein, 2000 ft. Drege, 7041. 
A. Wyley. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
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