Corrigiola. | ILLECEBRACEZ (Cooke). 401 
Annual or perennial herbs, rarely fruticose at the base, glabrous, diffusely 
branched ; leaves opposite and alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate, spathulate or 
linear, entire, flat, sometimes fleshy or glaucous ; stipules various, scarious ; flowers 
minute, pedicellate, minutely bracteate and 2-bracteolate, in axillary and terminal 
cymes or clusters. 
DistriB. Species 4-6, cosmopolitan. 
Annual ; flowers axillary ... on ain ies .» (1) litoralis. 
Perennial ; inflorescence leafless... Fes yo ..» (2) telephiifolia. 
1. C. litoralis (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 271) ; a small prostrate diffuse 
glabrous annual ; stems numerous, 6-12 in. long, spreading on the 
ground in every direction, smooth, glabrous; leaves alternate, 
4-3 in. long, 1 lin. broad, linear-spathulate or oblanceolate, sub- 
acute, tapering much at the base, sessile or shortly petiolate, 
glabrous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, scarious ; flowers in congested 
cymes in the axils of the upper leaves ; perianth globose, green, 
glabrous, $—? lin. long ; stamens shorter than the perianth ; nutlet 
ovoid-trigonous with prominent angles, verrucose, dark brown. 
Baker & Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 12. _C. littoralis, DC. 
Prodr. iii. 367 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 305; Harv. & Sond. Fi. 
Cap. i. 132; Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. 3. vii. 177, t. 670; var. capensis, 
Fenzl in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 175. C. capensis, Willd. Sp. 
Pl. i. 1507 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 272 ; DC. Prodr, iti. 367. 
Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Ebenezer, Drége! Cape Div. ; near 
Capetown, Burchell, 431! railway at Retreat Station, Wolley-Dod, 1192! and 
without precise locality, Harvey, 521! Mossel Bay Div. ; in a dry channel of an 
arm of the Gouritz River, Burchell, 6461! Uitenhage Div. ; Zeyher, 27! 
1834! Port Elizabeth Diy. ; around Krakakamma, Burchell, 4558/5. 
Katanart REGION: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6389 ! 
Eastern Recron: Natal ; Umzinyati Valley, Wood, 1348! 
Also in Europe, Tropical Africa and temperate South America. 
2. C. telephiifolia (Pourr. in Act. Toul. iii. 316); strongly 
resembling C. litoralis, but differing by the following characters :— 
rootstock perennial; leaves obovate or oblong, thick ; flowers in 
clusters racemosely arranged at the ends of leafless branches ; 
rianth and nutlet nearly twice as large. DC. Prodr. iii. 367 ; 
Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soe. xiv. iii, 310. 
Coast Recton: Cape Div. ; roadsides, near the Jetty, Cape Town, Ecklon & 
' Zeyher, 1835 (ex Sonder), beyond Simonstown Cemetery, Wolley-Dod, 2841! 
Caledon or Swellendam Div. ; by the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 2502 partly (ex 
Sonder). 
Also in South Europe and North Africa. 
IV. SCLERANTHUS, Linn, 
Perianth herbaceous when young, becoming crustaceous in age, 
usually 5-lobed ; tube campanulate. Stamens 1-10 (usually 5), 
inserted in the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments subulate ; 
anthers didymous; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid ; ovule solitary, 
pendulous from a basal funicle ; styles 2, distinct, filiform, erect. 
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