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6. A. paniculatum (Linn. Spec. 700); stem herbaceous, decumbent 
or erectish, tomentose, branched ; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, 
lanceolate or subspathulate, acute, attenuated at the base, tomentose ; 
flowers sessile, peduncles trichotomous, panicled. Thunb. / £1. Cap. 
410. E.& Z./ 2141. A. tomentosum, Lam. Enc. Meth. 3. 418. 
. Has. Sandy places in the Cape Flats, near Saldanhabay, Simonsbay. Aug-Oct. 
(Herb, Thunb., Vind., D., Sd.) 
From several inches to 1 foot or more high, greyish, tomentose. Branches alter- 
nate or opposite. Lower leaves 2 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, upper ones about 1 Polax i. 
inch long, 1-2 lines broad or smaller. Panicle terminal, few or many flowered. Qyisk 214 al 
Flowers with 2 leafy bracts, sessile, or the lateral short-pedunculate. Calyx-lobes 9| 3, sf 
5, rarely 4, appressed-hairy on the outside, glabrous and pale-yellowish on the in- tb: 
side, 2-3 lines long. Stamens 15 or more. Styles 5, filiform, Capsule 5-angled 
depressed. It varies with rose-coloured and with larger flowers. 
7. A. sarmentosum (Linn. fil. Suppl. 260) ; stems suffruticose, dif- 0 ee 
fuse, sarmentose, glabrous ; branches subfiliform, appressed-villous to- Lot 
wards the apex ; leaves opposite, linear-subulate, rather connate ; flowers 5 TKS : 
3 or ternately-panicled on the top of the branches, with 2 longer leafy 
bracts. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 416. Burm. Afr.t.26.f.2. Herb. Un. Itin. n. 11. 
E.& Z.l 2140. Zeyher 721. A, stellatum, Lam. l.c. Mesembryanth. heaa- 
phylum, Haw. Rev. 168, ex syn. Burm. 
Van. A. strigosum (E. & Z, ! 1. c.) ; stems, branches and calyces strigose-scabrous. 
Var. y. hirsutum (E. Z.! 1. ¢.) branches and calyces hirsute with long spread- 
ing hairs. 
Has. Mountains near Capetown and in the Cape Flats. Var. 8. Zwarteberg, 
Caledon, E. § Z.! eres Drege! Var. y. hills near the cataract of Tulbagh, 
E. ¢ Z.1 Pappe ; Nieuwekloof, Drege | July-Nov. (Herb. Thunb., Vind., D., Sd.) 
Stems many from the root, 4-1 foot, often rooting. Branches alternate or oppo- 
site. Leaves subfiliform and flat above, acute, f, inch long. Flowers rarely 
solitary or geminate, usually ternate or ternately-compound, the intermediate sessile. 
Calyx. stellate, appressed-villous on the outside, glabrous and white inside, ovate- 
lanceolate, or lanceolate, 3-4 lines long. Stamens more than 20, twice shorter 
than the calyx, equalling the 5 filiform styles. Capsule shorter than the calyx, ob- 
tusely 5-angled, depressed-globose, many seeded. Var. 7 is usually more robust 
and erect, stem more woody and rarely sarmentose, with glabrous or pilose leaves, 
but is united by var. 8. with the typical form. 
“ty IV. ACROSANTHES, KE. & Z. 
Calyx 5-parted, tube short, infundibuliform, lobes subfleshy, keeled, 
coloured on the inside, acuminate, erect. Petals wanting. Stamens 
10-40, 2-seriate and in many parcels on the top of the calyx-tube, the 
exterior longer, alternate with the calyx-lobes ; filaments capillary ; 
anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovulate, Stigmas 2, filiform. Cap- 
sule subglobose, included in the persistent calyx, 1-celled, 2-valved, 
Seeds 1-2, affixed at the base, globose-reniform, lacunose-tuberculate, 
estrophiolate. H. § 2. / Enum. 328. Fenzl. 1. c, Endl. gen. 5191. Tri- 
anthema spec. Thunb. ! 
Decumbent, dichotomous. quite glabrous subshrubs. Leaves subconnate, oppo- 
site or by abortion of branchlets in fours. Flowers axillary, or in the forks, solitary, 
pedunculate. Name from axpos, the summit, and avyOos a flower. 
