Galenia. | MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) 475 
ultimate branches appressed-hairy or hirsute, 1 line long. Calyx mostly 5-parted 
Styles 3-5. In A. contaminatum, E. § Z./ the indument is sooet aummal and the 
leaves subtomentose, but A. propinguum is the intermediate form, 
2. G. spathulata (Fenzl. in Herb. Drege) stem and branches herba- 
ceous, procumbent, as well as the leaves covered with short appressed 
hairs ; leaves alternate, short-petiolate, obovate-spathulate, subcompli- 
cate, obtuse, mucronate or acute, often recurved at the apex ; flowers 
sessile, axillary, solitary, 5-parted ; styles 3-5. Atzoon pubescens, E. § Z.! 
2133. G. heterophylla, Fenzl. Zeyher, 2635. 
Has. Fields near the Zwartkopsriver, Z. § Z. ; near Grahamstown, Col, Bolton ; 
Kendo, Roodesand, and Buffelriver, Drege. Octob.-Jan. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 5 
Very nearly allied to (. secunda, and only distinguished by the more greenish or 
subglaucous colour and more distant leaves in the branches. The whole plant is 
very thinly pubescent, the young leaves opposite, old ones about } inch long, 2-3 
lines wide, the upper smaller. Flowers usually more distant than in the preceding, 
1 line long, pubescent on the outside. 
3. G. pallens (Fenzl.); very thinly puberous, glaucous or pale-yellowish ; 
stem suffruticose, procumbent, branches diffuse or ascendent ; leaves 
alternate, petiolate, obovate-spathulate, subcomplicate, with recurved 
apex, young ones opposite; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, terminal 
ones mostly ternate, central sessile, lateral ones short-pedicellate ; calyx 
4-parted ; styles 4. Kolleria pallens and glauca, E. & Z.1 2144, 2145. 
Zeyher 2636. 
Has. Fields near the Zwartkopsriver, F. § Z. ; Dec. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
Habit and foliage exactly as in G. spathulata, from which it differs by the scarcely 
conspicuous, sometimes wanting pubescence and tetramerous flowers, very rarely 
mixed with a §-parted calyx ; 5 styles. 
4. G. sarcophylla (Fenzl.) ; perennial, squamulose-pubescent ; pros- 
trate or suberect, primary branches opposite ; leaves obovate or spathu- 
late, obtuse, fleshy, papulose, upper ones smaller but similar, complicate ; 
flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, in the ultimate branchlets approximate, 
subspicate ; calyx 5-cleft ; styles 3-4. ‘ 
Has. Springbokkeel, Feb., Zeyher, 719. (Herb. Vind. Sd.) 
Whole plant greyish or pale, covered with appressed, hairlike papule, 4-1 foot 
high. Branches alternate, spreading, terete. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, 
attenuated in a short petiole, upper ones 2-1 line long. Ultimate or flowering 
branchlets very short. Flowers alternate, searcely 1 line long, pubescent on the 
outside. It comes very near G. crystallina, and is perhaps a 3-4 styled form. From 
G. portulacoides Fenzl. it differs by the thick, uniform leaves. 
5. G. portulacacea (Fenzl. in herb. Drege); perennial, sqwamulose- 
puberous, stems scope er prostrate or suberect ; branches alternate, 
primary ones often opposite ; leaves alternate, oblong-spathulate, flat, 
obtuse, papulose, upper ones much smaller, linear-spathulate, complicate ; 
flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, remote ; calyx 5-cleft ; styles 3. 
Has. At pen a and Jakkalsfontyn, Drege, Sept. (Herb. Vind. $d.) 
Nearly allied to the ing, but the leaves are smaller and flat, 3-1 inch long, 
2 lines wide, attenuated at the base ; those of the flowering branchlets 2-3 lines 
long, 4-1 line broad ; flowers not approximate, otherwise not differing. 
6. G. papulosa (Sond.); densely clothed with appressed round papule ; 
