Pollichia.| ILLECEBRACE (Cooke). 399 
I. POLLICHIA, Soland. 
Perianth herbaceous, urceolate, the mouth of the tube closed by 
a thickened lobed disc ; lobes ovate, short, obtuse, erect or spreading. 
Stamens 1-2, inserted on the disc; filaments very short ; anthers 
oblong. Ovary ovoid, attenuated into a short filiform style ; ovules — 
2, basal, semi-anatropous, with short funicles ; stigmas 2, minute. 
Utricle globose or ovoid-oblong, membranous, 1—2-seeded. Seeds 
oblong or ovoid ; testa hyaline ; embryo dorsal, straight or slightly 
curved. 
A dichotomously branched undershrub with round stiff branches and weak 
hairs; leaves opposite or in false whorls, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, quite 
entire, flat; stipules scarious, free ; flowers minute, in sessile axillary crowded 
cymes surrounded by white scarious bracts, each flower subtended by a bracteole 
which is at first scarious, then enlarging and becoming thick and fleshy, oblong, 
rounded, the bracteoles conniving so as to present the appearance of a succulent 
berry open at the top. 
DistriB. Species 1 in Tropical and South Africa. 
1. P. campestris (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 5); a much- 
branched straggling undershrub ; stem and branches terete, pubes- 
cent, or nearly glabrous; leaves 4-8 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate, arranged in often subsecund pseudo-whorls 
along the stem and branches, pubescent or glabrous ; stipules 
scarious, lanceolate, cuspidate ; perianth scarcely 1 lin. long ; lobes 
} lin. long, ovate, subacute ; bracteoles at first scarious, then 
enlarging and becoming thick and fleshy, each bracteole subtending 
a flower, oblong, obtuse, all the bracteoles of the head conniving 
and presenting the appearance of a succulent berry open at the top. 
Smith, Spicil. 1, t. 1; DC. Prodr. iii. 377 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 
i. 304; Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 133; Baker & Wright in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 10. Neckeria campestris, Gmelin, Syst. Veg. i. 16. 
Var. B, marlothiana (Engl. Jahrb. x. 13); leaves wider and more densely 
ashy-pilose. 
Coast Reaion: Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 1807! near 
Strandfontein (Sandfontein ?) and Matjesfontein, Drége! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 
near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, 4365! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near 
Grahamstown, Cooper, 6! 2490! Fish River, Burke! Queenstown Div. ; around 
Queenstown, 3800 ft., Galpin, 1789 ! 
CentraL Recron: Albert Div., Cooper, 594! 
KataHart REGION: Basutoland; Cooper, 2488 bis! Transvaal ; Vlakfontein, 
near Amersfoort, Burtt-Davy, 4017! near Waterval Boven, Burtt-Davy, 1416! 
Lydenburg, Wilms, 507 ! near Potchefstroom, Bolus, 3110! Hooge Veld, Rehmann, 
6675! Boschveld, Rehmann, 5283! Var. B: Bechuanaland; Kuruman, 3920 ft., 
Marloth, 1115. 
Eastern REGIon: Griqualand East ; near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 3125! 
Ibisi River, Wood, 3001! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 517! and without precise 
locality, Sanderson ! Gueinzius ! Cooper, 2489! Krauss, 2! 
Il. HERNIARIA, Linn. 
Perianth herbaceous, deeply 4-5-fid; tube short, turbinate ; 
segments equal or unequal, obtuse, muticous. Stamens 3-5, peri- 
gynous, equal or unequal ; filaments setaceous; anthers short ; 
