454 CHENOPODIACEA (Wright). [Salsola. 
Western REGION: Little Namaqualand ; near the mouth of the Orange River, 
under 600 ft., Drege. 
6. S. Calluna (Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 50, 56, name only) ; 
a very dwarf shrub ; stem and branches glabrous ; leaves orbicular, 
1 lin. in diam., collected into alternate nodules ; flowers unknown. 
Drege in Linnea, xx. 204; Moquin in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii. 191; 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. 62. 
CentraL Recion : Richmond Div. ; vicinity of Stylkloof about 10 miles west 
of Richmond, 4000-5000 ft., Drége; Aliwal North Div. ; at the union of the 
Stormberg Spruit and Orange River, 4200 ft., Drége. 
Zeyher’s 1448 is quoted by Moquin both under this species and under S. fetida, 
Del. ; from the latter it is obviously distinct. Henderson’s 10 (known as Root 
Ganna) from the Karoo at Beaufort West agrees with Zeyher’s plant. 
eee 8 
oe Reaion: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; near Mieren Kasteel, 1000-2000 ft., 
ege. 
8. 8. geminiflora (Fenzl ex Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 108, 
name only); dwarf, pubescent ; leaves opposite. 
Coast Reaion: Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Ebenezer, under 500 ft., Drége, 8024a! 
Orper CXI. PHYTOLACCACEA. . 
(By A. W. Hitt.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth inferior, herbaceous 
or coriaceous, rarely coloured, 4—5-partite, reguiar or nearly so; 
lobes equal or unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4—5 or many, usually 
inserted on a hypogynous disk; filaments subulate, sometimes 
connate at the base ; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary superior ; carpels one or many, concrete or distinct ; style 
none or short ; stigmas as many as the carpels, linear or capitate ; 
ovules solitary, basal, with a short funicle. Fruit of one or many 
carpels, fleshy or dry. Seed erect, compressed ; testa membranous 
or crustaceous ; embryo peripheric, enclosing the albumen ; coty- 
ledons foliaceous or subcylindrical ; radicle long. 
Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees ; leaves alternate, entire ; stipules none or small ; 
flowers usually racemose, green or whitish, small. 
Distrip, Species about 60 concentrated in Tropical America. 
I. Microtea.—Carpels 2 or more, united into a 1-celled ovary ; styles 2-5. 
Il. Phytolacca —Carpels several, free, or united into a several-celled ovary ; 
styles free. 
The genus Adenogramma, Reichb., placed as a suborder of Caryophyllex in 
Harvey & Sonder’s Fl. Capensis, i. 149, has been placed by some authors 1D 
