Oxygonum. | POLYGONACE (Wright). 461 
perianth yellow, 24 lin. long; filaments subulate, with a tuft of 
brown hairs on the upper side near the base ; fruit 34 lin. long, 
obovoid, ribbed. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 38. 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. 
Galpin., 4429! 
Kartauart Recion: Transvaal; Rustenberg, 4000 ft., Miss Pegler, 991! The 
Willows, near Pretoria, Burtt-Davy, 2528! Marabastadt, Nelson, 118! Magalies- 
berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1451b. Swazieland; High Veld between Carolina and 
Mbabane, 5400 ft., Bolus, 12260! 
3. O. dregeanum (Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 487); stem erect or 
ascending, sparingly branched, terete, faintly sulcate; leaves 
membranous, 1-1} in. long, 3-7 lin. wide, lanceolate-oblong, rarely 
subspathulate, entire or few-toothed, l-nerved, subobtuse, with or 
without a mucro, tapering into a 1-4 lin.-long petiole, glabrous ; 
ochre greenish, membranous, 4-6 lin. long, truncate, with sete up 
to 2 lin. long ; racemes 6-10 in. long, straight ; bracts membranous, 
2-3 lin. long, oblique and subulate at the mouth ; flowers herma- 
phrodite, about 4 in a fascicle, rarely solitary ; pedicels 2—3 lin. 
long, straight or finally decurved, articulated at the apex ; perianth 
whitish or pale-yellow tinged with purple ; tube ovoid, 1 lin. long ; 
lobes lanceolate, 2 lin. long ; filaments white ; anthers dark purple ; 
fruit oblong, trigonous, slightly ribbed between the angles. Meisn. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 551. O. Dregei, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 38. 0. alatum, var. dregeanum, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 98. 
KataHaRI ReGion: Transvaal ; near brenda: Atherstone! Barberton, 
Thorncroft, 2781! Saddleback Range, 4000-4500 ft., Galpin, 615! Jeppes Town 
Ridges, Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin., 6171! Bosch Veld, 
Elands River, Rehmann, 4996; Belfast, Jenkins, 6799! Orange River Colony, 
Cooper, 833! 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East ; Enshlenzi, 2500 ft., Zyson in MacOwan and 
Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1235! Pondoland ; Fort William, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2718 ! 
Natal ; Clairmont, Wood, 1321! Durban, Krauss, 283! Peddie! Cooper, 3059 ! 
Coast, Wood, 313! Inanda, Wood, 628! Verulam, Wood, 757! Berg Plateau, 
Mudd! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3060! Gerrard, 356 ! 
4. 0. delagoense (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 268) ; herba- 
ceous ; stem erect or ascending, up to 3 ft. high ; branches slender, 
more or less distinctly triquetrous, papillose ; leaves from linear to 
lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 1-3 lin. wide, acuminate, sometimes 
trifid, pubescent; ochree 3 lin. long, tubular, pubescent, sete 
about 10, pallid, shorter than the tubular part ; racemes terminal, 
lax, slender, up to 6 in. long ; bracts oblique, subulate, not setose, 
pubescent ; pedicels 2-4 in the axil of each bract, shortly exserted ; 
perianth nearly 3 lin. long, cylindrical and densely pubescent below, 
campanulate and less densely so above ; lobes twice as long as the 
tube, oblong, acute ; stamens half as long as the perianth ; anther- 
cells diverging at the base; fruit triquetrous, acuminate, not 
winged nor spiny, slightly toothed at the base, smooth between 
the angles. 
