468 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [Tetragonia. 
-- Distinct from 7. fruticosa by the minute, very short pedicelled, 4-12-androus 
flowers and ovate anthers, Shrub about 1} foot high. Leaves 1 inch or shorter, 
1-2 lines wide. Pedicels 14-1 line long. Lobes of calyx acute or obtuse, yellow, 
1-13 line long. : 
20. T. sarcophylla (Fenzl.) ; frutescent, much branched, erect, pa- 
pulose-canous ; branches rigid, thickish, many-leaved ; leaves } inch or 
smaller, carnose, obovate, obovate-oblong or oblong-linear, gradually 
attenuated at the base, subpetiolate, with revolute margins ; flowers 
axillary, 1-5-nate, very short-pedicelled, forming a spike at the top of 
the branches, hermaphrodite-moncecious, lower ones 5—8-androus, 2—3- 
gynous, superior ones sterile, larger, 12-20-androus, 1-gynous or only 
male ; lobes of the 4-fid calyx oval, rotwndate ; anthers linear ; fruit 
(probably) winged. 
Var. 8. glabrata, Sond. ; branches minutely papulose ; leaves glabrate, obovate, 
cuneate, petiole 1-3 lines long, dilated at the base ; flowers short-pedicellate, axil- 
lary ; stamens nearly 15 ; ovary papulose, 3-4-locular ; style 3 or t ; fruit 3-4- 
winged, cuneate at the base, peau oo ws the apex ; wings membranaceous, alter- 
nate with 3 or 4 often obsolete tu 
Has. Stony places of Mount Kendo, in Groote Zwartebergen, 3-4000 ft. Drege, 
8018 ; var. 8. Springbokkeel, Zeyher, 714. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
Subshrub erect, 4-1 foot high, very rigid, i branches as thick as a goose- 
quill. Pedicels and calyx-lobes nearly 1 line long. Stem leaves more than 4 lines 
long. In var. 8. the lower leaves 8-10 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, the calyx rarely 
§-parted, lobes ovate or oval, the fruit about 4—6 lines long and broad. 
21. T. glauca (Fenzl.) ; suffruticose, much branched, erect ? glaucous, 
branches virgate, elongate, rather straight, subherbaceous ; leaves sub- 
sessile, lanceolate, bluntish or acute, flat, with subrevolute margins, the 
uppermost linear ; flowers axillary, 3-6-nate, long pedicellate, disposed 
in a lax, interrupted, sometimes subcompound spike, near the apex 
leafless ; lobes of calyx ovate, acutish; stamens very numerous ; fruit 
-2—3-locular, elliptic, 4-winged, wings alternate with four obsolete coste. 
T. linearis, E. & Z.! 2133. excl. specim. circa Zwellendam lectis ad 7’. salig- 
nam spectantibus, 
Has. Karrolike-hills, between Gauritzriver and Langekloof, dist. George, F. ¢ Z./ 
_Drege, 7030. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
Branches 4-1 foot or longer, very smooth, glaucous or whitish. ‘Leaves 1-24 
inches long, 3-6 lines wide. Pedicels 24-10 lines long, capillary. Common axil- 
sl peduncle 1-6 lines long. Calyx-lobes 1-14 line long. Fruit (unripe) 4 lines 
ng. 
22, T. Haworthii (Fenzl.); suffruticose, branches ascendent or erect, 
angular, obsoletely papulose ; leaves very short, petiolate, lanceolate, 
elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, carnose, subpapulose, with subdeflexed 
margins ; flowers axillary, small, 2-3-nate, on short, unequal pedicels ; 
lobes of the 4-parted calyx rotundate-ovate ; stamens very numerous ; 
styles 3-43 fruit subglobose, 3-4-locwlar, not winged, with 7-8 very 
blunt angles. 7. fruticosa, Haw, Misc. 120 (excl. omnibus Syn. ad 1’. 
fruticosam, L. spect.) 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. Haworth. 
Perhaps only a 3~4-gynous form of the following. 
