478 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [Galenia. 
cent ; stem fruticose erect, much branched, branches and leaves oppo- 
site ; leaves oblong-cuneate or oblong-lanceolate, upper ones smaller, 
complicate; flowers sessile, disposed in a terminal panicle. Avzoon 
fruticosum Thunb.! fl. cap. 410. G. sericea et salsoloides, Fenzl. in herb. 
Drege. ; 
Has. In Zwartland, Thunberg ; Scholl. in herb. Jack. ; hills near Ebenezer, and 
= between Hexriver and Buffelriver, Drege ; Bitterfontyn, Betchuanavald, Zeyh./ 723. 
(Herb. Thunb. Vind. Sd.) 
Greyish shrub, 1 to several feet high, woody. Branches rigid, virgate. Leaves 
silky from adpressed hairs, 4-1 inch long, 1-2 lines wide, upper ones crowded and 
smaller, and recurved. Panicle spreading, dichotomously divided, 1 to several inches 
long. Flowers } line long, in the axil of an equal or rarely somewhat larger leaf. 
15. G. procumbens (Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 227); glabrous, stem fruti- 
cose, decumbent ; branches.and leaves opposite, short, linear-clavate, 
canaliculate, syuarrose-recurved ; flowers sessile and short-pedunculate, 
cymose-paniculate at the top of the branches. Thwnb./ fl. cap. 384. 
Has. In Hantam, Thunberg ; Tarka, Zeyher ; Nieuweveld, dist. Beaufort, Drege. 
Nov.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
A low, much branched shrub; upper part of the branches and leaves with very 
thin, scarcely conspicuous indument, often quite glabrous. Leaves 1-2 lines long, 
3 line wide, on the young branches mostly 3-4 lines long, spreading-recurved, with 
impressed line above. Flowers 4 line long; the central sessile, lateral ones sub- 
pedicellate. Styles 2. 
16. G. glauca (Sond.); glabrous, suffruticose, subdecumbent, stems 
filiform, branches and leaves opposite ; leaves connate at the base, 
linear-filiform, acute, subfleshy ; flowers ternately-cymose-paniculated, 
the central sessile, the lateral shortly pedicellate ; calyx shorter than 
the leafy bract. Sialodes glauca, B. & Z.! 2149. Gal. Ecklonis Walp. 
Rep. 2, 232. 
Has. Sandy places at the base of the Winterhoeks mountains, near Tulbagh, 
Woreester, Sept., E. ¢ Z. ; Predikstoel, Zeyher. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.) 
Stems several from the root, 3-8 inches long, often reddish. Internodes 1 inch 
or longer. Leaves mostly crowded, 4-9 lines long, 4 line wide. Panicle terminal. 
Calyx 1 line long, twice shorter than the leafy bract ; lobes acuminate, white. 
17, G. Africana (Linn. Spec. 515); glabrous, fruticose, erect ; 
branches and leaves opposite ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, atten- 
uated at the base, carinate above, subfleshy ; flowers sessile, dis 
in a terminal, dichotomous, large panicle. G. linearis Thunb.! fl. cap- 
Dp. Ste Steb. herb. fl. cap. n. 351. Herb. Un. itin. n. 309. Zeyh. 2638. 
AR. B. halimifolia ; leav ~2 li i a 
G. haliaaf lia, Fendl. tn -sg mae 1~2 lines broad, 1 inch long 
__ Has. Fields and among shrubs in the Cape Flats, Hottentottsholland, Breede- 
rivierspoort in Wup; and in the distr. of Uitenhage ; var. B. in Langevalei and 
on Tarkariver. (Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sd. pes 
alte 3 feet and more high. Branches woody, terete, greyish, erect, ultimate 
subfiliform, virgate. Leaves mostly crowded, 1 inch long, 1 line wide, sometimes 
longer, in the branches shorter and narrower. Panicle o very large. Flowers 
4 line long, equalling the bracts, rarely shorter. 
18. G. ee aap oe (Fenzl. in herb. Drege.) ; stem fruticose, pros- 
_ trate; branches densely clothed with long stiff, spreading hairs ; leaves 
