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23. T. saligna (Fenzl.); suffruticose, decumbent, divaricately branched; 
branches ascendent, virgate, greyish, smooth ; leaves subfleshy, distant, 
short, petiolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, with 
subrevolute margins, minutely papulose, upper ones sessile, linear, ob- 
tuse ; flowers 3-8 axillary, glomerate, sessile or subsessile, glomeruli 
(clusters ?) disposed along the branches ; calyx-lobes ovate-roundish , 
stamens very numerous ; style 1, rarely 2, filiform ; fruit subglobose, 
24-3 lines long, 1-locular, 8-angulate, angles obtuse or acutish. T. 
linearis, FE. & Z.! 2123, partim. 
Has. Karrolike-hills, near the River Zonderende and Breederiver, Zwellendam, 
E. § Z,! Zwartebeestkraal, between Olifantsriver and Bergriver, Clanwilliam, Drege, 
7037. (Herb, Vind. Sd.) 
Subshrub 1-2 feet or higher, with the aspect of Atriplex angustifolia ; pri 
branches nearly as thick as a goose-quill. Larger leaves 2-4 lines, small ones 15 
line wide. Pedicels 4-1 line long. Lobes of calyx 3-1 line long. 
Ii AIZOON, L. 
Calyx 5-parted, coloured and petaloid within. Petals none. Stamens 
about 20, inserted at the bottom of the calyx, and disposed in 3-5 tufts. 
Ovary free, 5-angled, 5-celled ; cells with 2 or many ovules, Styles or 
stigmas 5. Capsule 5-celled, dehiscing at the apex in a stellate manner ; 
cells 2-10-seeded. Seeds pyriform or subreniform, brown, shining, 
striate. DC. l. c. 3,p. 453. Endl. Gen. 5165. Fenzl. l. c. 288. 
Humble herbs or subshrubs. Leaves fleshy, quite entire. Flowers sessile in the 
axils of the leaves or forks of the stems, rarely pedicellate. Name from ae, always, 
and (wos, alive. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Leaves alternate. 
Stem villous ; leaves obtuse, pubescent ... --- + (1) Canariense, 
Stem hirsute ; leaves acute or mucronate, hihite eos OS glinoides. 
Stem canous-tomentose ; leaves glaucous-tomentose .. ...  «.- (4) rigidum. 
Stem and leaves papulose ...  --. eee eee teeter tert (2) galenioides, ~ 
Leaves opposite. : 
Stem cppcean tases as well as the ovate leaves ... ... ... (5) Zeyheri. 
Stem not sarmentose, as well as the lanceolate or spathulate J 
leaves tomentoses.; © il eke © cat see see sag ae eee ane (6) paniculatum. 
Stem sarmentose, as well aa the linear-subulate leaves glabrous 
on adey i ye = wes ae ae (7) sarmentosum. 
1. A. Canariense (Linn. Spec. 709); stems herbaceous, procumbent, 
much branched, villous ; leaves alternate obovate-cunciform, petiolate, 
pubescent ; flowers sessile, subadnate at the origin of the branches ; 
stigmas 5, thick. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 136. Glinus crystallinus, Forsk. 
Descript. 95. t. 14.’ Veslingia cauliflora, Meench. 
Var. f. denudata, Sond. ; stem and leaves subglabrous ; leaves long-petiolate, 
punctate, ciliate. A. spathulatum, E. § Z.! 2128. 
Has. Fields near Bitterfontyn, Zeyh. 718 ; var. B. sandy places near Brackfontyn, 
Clanwilliam, £. ¢ Z./ Drege, 7063. (Herb, Vind. Sd.) © 
Stem or primary branches 4 foot long. Leaves 3-1 inch, spathulate, obtuse, at- 
tenuated in a petiole nearly as long or longer than the lamina, Calyx 5-angled, 
lobes 1 line long or longer. Capsule much depressed. 
2. A. galenioides (Fenzl. in herb, Drege) ; stems herbaceous, ascen- 
