474 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [Galenia. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Subgenus I. Kolleria. Calyx 4-5-parted. Ovary mostly 3-5-celled. Styles 
3-5. Flowers cymoso-spicate. (Sp. 1-9.) 
Decumbent or prostrate perennial herbs or suffrutices : 
Villous and hirsute with white hairs, in all parts (1) secunda. 
Clothed with diaphanous, hairlike scales : : 
Upper and lower leaves of similar form, obo- 
sent ee ee ae (4) sarcophylla. 
wer leaves oblong-spa 3 upper linear- 
Bpeules as ie. ee eee oe (8) portulacen, 
Clothed with appressed, rounded papille ... ... (6) papulosa. 
Appressedly hairy ; lvs. obovate or spathulate ; cal. 
5-parted ; styles3-5 ... ... ... ... .. «+. (2) spathulata. 
Thinly pubescent ; calyx 4-parted ; styles 4. 
Lys. obovate or spathulate ... ... ... ... (3) pallens. : 
Lys. lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ... ... (9) herniariefolia. 
Glabrous or nearly so ; lvs. obovate or spathulate ; 5 14 
eal. 5-parted GR ie OP ee wae es os’ (6) eemifane, Car 
Erect, shrubby ; thinly pubescent ; lvs. obovate-lanceo- 
late ; cal. 5-parted ee ets eg: de> (7) atin, 
Subgenus IL. Enugalenia. Calyx 4-parted. Ovary 2 or 1-celled. Styles 2. 
Flowers panicled. (Sp. 10-18.) 
Covered with diaphanous scales : 
Scales lanceolate, spreading... tes tee ove age (10) SQuamulosa,. 
Scales short, appressed ; lvs. obovate-cuneate ... (13) erystallina, 
Scales short, appressed ; lys.suborbicular ..._ ... (11) Dregeana. 
Covered with minute papillz, except on the old branches (12) pruinosa. re 
Hairy with stiff hairs ; lvs. lanceolate-linear ..._... (18) hispidissima, * 
Silky-pubescent ; leaves oblong-cuneate or lanceolate 
erect and shrubby ... (14) fruticosa. 
Glabrous and glaucous ; leaves linear-filiform, 4—9 lines 8 
long ; stem decumbent tie ON, eee Sat Sa ee. P 
Glabrous (not glaucous): 
Prostrate ; leaves linear-clavate, squarrose, 1-2 
dittestong i. Si a La a oslo) gpeoqumbéns, 
' Erect ; lvs. linear-lanceolate or spathulate, uncial (17) Africana. 
Subgen. I. Kolleria(Presl.) Ovary 4-5, very rarely 3-celled. Styles 3-5. Cap- 
sule dehiscent. Prostrate perennial herbs or subshurbs ; flowers cymose-spiked, 
subsecundate, in the axils of leaves, 3-5-gynous, sometimes intermixed with a few 
2-gynous. Calyx 5-parted. (Sp. 1-9.) 
1. G. secunda pee stem herbaceous, decumbent, elongate as 
well as the branches and leaves villous or hirsute with white hairs ; 
branches alternate, diffuse; branchlets short, leafy ; leaves alternate, 
obovate, or obovate-spathulate, attenuated at the base, acute ; flowers 
sessile, axillary, solitary, subsecundate. Aizoon secundum, Thunb! Fl. 
Cap. 410. Awoon glinoides, elongatum, propinguum, et contaminatum, 
E. &.Z.! 2131, 2232, 2134, 2135. Zeyher! 2633. 
Var. 8. strigulosa (Sond) ; stem, branches and leayes strigose, leaves oblong- 
spathulate, acute or subacuminate. . aizoides, Fenzl. in herb. Drege. 
Has. Near Amsterdammbatterie and Gorrichoogde, Dr. Pappe; Zwartland, 
int; 2S reseemsaremee em nee Ia tae 
; 3 . B. Wi .—Dec. 
(Herb. Thunb, Vind OR sate go 
Stems 1-2 feet ; branches gradually shorter. Leaves, when young, often oppo- 
site, on short petioles, 6-10 lines Jong, 2-4 lines wide, the upper ones much er 
and more approximate, often recurved at the apex, 1-3 lines Sane. Flowers in the 
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