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476 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [Galenia. 
stem decumbent suffruticose ; branches alternate, rarely opposite ; leaves 
alternate, obovate-cuneate, obtuse; flowers solitary, axillary, sessile ; calyx 
5-cleft, papulose ; styles mostly 5. Aizoon papulosum E. § Z. | 2137. 
- Has. Karrolike hills on Gauritzriver near Grootriver, Swellendam. Dec. 
Habit of G. erystallina, and sarcophylla, from the first it differs by a 5-parted calyx 
and 5, rarely 3 styles; from G. sarcophylla, by a very different indument, not dif- 
formed leaves, and not subspiked flowers. Stem about 1 foot long. Leaves 4-6 
lines long, 2-3 lines broad, floral ones nearly twice smaller, but obovate. Flowers 
1 line long. 
7. G, affinis (Sond.); fruticose, erect, branches alternate, virgate, 
spreading, glabrous, ultimate short, as well as the leaves very thinly 
and appressedly pubescent ; leaves alternate, small, obovate-lanceolate, 
complicate, with acute, recurved points ; flowers axillary, solitary, ses- 
_ sile, terminal ones mostly ternate, central sessile, lateral ones short- 
pedicellate ; calyx 5-cleft ; styles 3-4, rarely 5. Aizoon fruticosum, 
£. & Z,1 2139. non. Thunb.! 
Has. Hills between Hassaquaskloof and Breederiver, Swellendam, £. ¢ Z. ; 
Bitterfontyn, Zey./ 724. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
A woody greyish shrub, several feet high ; primary branches as thick as a goose’s 
quill, ultimate very short and leafy. ‘Leaves crowded, 3-5 lines long, 1 line wide, 
attenuated in a short petiole. Flowers secundate, 1 line long. Calyx appressed- 
hairy on the outside, longer than the stamens. G. fruticosa is very similar, but is 
distinguished by more silky pubescent leaves, 4-parted calyx, and 2 styles. 
8. G. humifusa (Fenzl. in herb. Drege) ; suffruticose, diffuse, quite gla- 
brous, or with a few appressed hairs on the young branches; leaves 
alternate, spathulate or obovate, petiolate, upper one oblong-spathulate or 
oblong, attenuated at the base, smaller, subcomplicate, subacute ; flowers 
axillary, solitary, sessile, secundate; calyx 5-cleft ; styles 3, rarely 4. 
Kollerva collina, E. § Z.! 2143. = 
_ Has. Near Karakuis (LIT. B.) 1500-200 ft., and near the Garip, Drege ; Karro- 
like hills near Breederiver, and on the Zwarteberg, Caledon, Zeyh. / 2637 ; Bitter- 
fontein, Zeyher, 722. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) ar: 
Many stems from the woody root, very pale-greyish or whiteish, 4-1} ft. long, 
with alternate, slightly spreading, similar, terete branches. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 
lower ones 2-3 lines broad, upper ones about 1 line wide, those in the axils or of 
the ultimate very short branches, 1-1} line long. Calyx 1 line long, glabrous. 
From the preceding, different by the diffuse, weaker stems, glabrous leaves and 
calyx ; from the following, by the 5-parted, 3-gynous flowers. 
9. G, herniariefolia (Fenzl.) ; suffruticose, diffuse, much branched ; 
branches alternate, the ultimate as well as the leaves and calyces on 
the outside, covered with a very thin, scarcely conspicuous indument ; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate-bluntish, attenuated at the base, 
subcomplicate ; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, secundate ; calyx 4- 
parted; styles 4. Kolleria herniariefolia, Presl. Symb. bot. 1, p. 24, t 
14. H. & Z.12142., Aizoon microphyllum Bartl.! Linnea, Vol. 7, 541 
A, Herniaria, Reichbch. in Sieb. herb. fl. cap. 164. aia 2 
Has. Sandy places and hills in the Cape Flats near Rietvalley and Constantia ; 
"_ Stems 1-2 feet, te, woody at the base, branches spreading ; ultima in ate very 
short and leafy. Resi lines ma 4-1 line wide, te smaller, often 
only one line long. Calyx nearly glabrous, scarcely 1 line long, white inside. 
Stamens 8, a little shorter than the calyx. Capsule depressed, 4-valved. 
