Galenia. | MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) 473 
4. A. teretifolia (E. & Z.! 2148) ; procumbent ; branches diffuse or 
ascending, lax or rigid, virgate, nearly terete ; leaves opposite, or 4—5 
verticillate, terete-filiform, acutish, sphacelate-mucronate ; flowers axil- 
lary, or in the forks solitary, pedicellate ; lobes of the calyx ovate ; 
stamens 28-40. Didaste icosandra, EZ. Meyer ! 
Has. Stony places, Mount Zwarteberg, Caledon ; near Tulbagh, Worcester, 
E. § Z./ Mount Paarlberg, 1500-2000f., Drege! Nov.-Dec. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Habit of the preceding. Root thick, 3-4 inches long. Stems many, 6-10 inches 
long ; branches short. Leaves }—1 inch long, } line broad. Flowers as long as the 
pedicels or twice shorter, 14-2} lines long. Calyx-lobes nearly twice longer than 
the turbinate tube. Capsule a little shorter than the calyx. 
o-| -_-V. DIPLOCHONIUM, Fenzl. 
Calyx 5-parted, tube infundibuliform, lobes petaloid-membranaceous, 
Petals none. Stamens 40-70, inserted (not in sets) on the top of the 
calyx tube. Anthers didymous, ellipsoid, versatile. Ovary free, 2-celled, 
Cells many-ovulate. Styles 2, filiform. Capsule ellipsoid-oblong, 2-celled, 
transversely dehiscent in the middle, operele obtusely conical ; the 
epicarpium of the lower segment separating from the endocarpium, 
Seeds subreniform, blackish, smooth, shining, with a large hilum. 
Fenzl. in Endl. nov. stirp. decad. n. 65. Endl. Gen. 5169. 
A fleshy, papulose, dichotomous herb. Leaves opposite, fleshy, quite entire, flat, 
obovate and elliptical, attenuated at the base, with revolute margins. Flowers ses- 
sile in the forks of the branches, the uppermost axillary. Name from d:r)oos, 
double, and xovos, a beaker ; in reference to the separation of the endocarpium 
from the persistent-epicarpium. , 
1. D. sesuvioides (Fenzl. 1. c,) 
Has. Rocky places on the Garip, Drege/ Namaqualand, A, Wyley! (Herb, 
Vind., D., Sd. : : 
Herb vlobcly prostrate, with the habit of Seswriwm Portulacastrum, glabrous, 
beset with dispersed, often whitish granules ; branches terete, as thick as a raven’s 
quill. Leaves acute or obtuse, about 1 inch long, 3-4 lines wide, the upper ones 
smaller. Flowers 6 lines long, tube 2 lines long, lobes much spreading, 4 lines long, 
ovate, mucronate, petaloid, herbaceous in the middle. Stamens somewhat shorter 
than the calyx, 
* -i® VI. GALENIA, L. 
or «-parted, coloured within. Petals none. Stamens 8 or 
oa i 5 oe alternate with the sepals, of unequal length (a long 
and short stamen in the axil of each sepal); anthers versatile, didy- 
mous, cells turgid, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary free, 2-5-celled, by 
abortion often 1-celled ; cells 1-ovulate. Styles or stigmas 2-5. Cap- 
sule 2-5 celled, by abortion sometimes 1-celled, 3—5-sulcate or 2-edged, 
dehiscent, or, if unilocular, indehiscent. Seeds solitary, pyriform or 
subreniform, brown, shining, striate, affixed to long funiculi, rising 
from the base of the cell ; radicle superior, next the hilum ; embryo 
on the outside of a farinaceous albumen, slightly curved. Harv. Gen. 
p, 123. Fend. lc, Kolleria, Aizoonis species, and Sialoides, E. & Z.! 
tat oe ch branched planta, with alternate OF opposite, 
ticose, mu wi a 
dapie salma? saute satire leaves and minute, axillary, sessile, rarely subpedicel 
Inte Aewers, Named after Claudius Galenus, a Roman naturalist. 
