474 POLYGONACE (Wright). | Rumen. 
branches ; whorls distant ; pedicels moderately stout, jointed below 
the middle ; inner perianth-segments oblong in fruit, conspicuously 
toothed, veins reticulate, with an oblong (often rough) wart on the 
back. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 58; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1214; 
Bolus d& Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 312 ; Dammer 
in Engl. & Prantl, Planzenfam. iii. 14. 18; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
xxiv. ¢, 183, figs. 1-6. 
Coast Reraton: Cape Div.; roadside near Wynberg, Wolley-Dod, 2020! 
Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 598 ! 
Also in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. 
3. R. garipensis (Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 491); an erect glabrous 
herb 1-2 ft. high, branched from the base ; lowest leaves lanceolate- 
oblong, obliquely cordate at the base, 4 in. long, central lanceolate, 
uppermost linear, all entire and acute; petioles from 14 in. long in 
the lower part to about } in. long in the uppermost ; whorls many- 
flowered, distant below, approximate above; pedicels erect or 
recurved, 1—3 lin. long, slender ; inner perianth-segments ovate or 
ovate-oblong, 1 lin. long, acuminate, with 3-4 unequal teeth on 
each side, one bearing a tubercle, the others naked. Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr, xiv. 60 (incl. var. elatus) ; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 93. 
3 maritimus, FE. Meyer ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 60, not of 
in, 
Var. 8, humilis (Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 491); much smaller in all its parts ; 
whorls approximate or almost confluent into a leafy raceme. Drége, Zwei PA. 
Doewmente, 94. 
Western Recton : Little Namaqualand ; between Verleptpram and the mouth 
of the Orange River, Drége! Var. 8, at the mouth of the Orange River, Drége ! 
4. R. fimbriatus (Poir. Encycl. v. 65, not of R. Br.); root 
tuberous ; stem herbaceous, nodose, branched, decumbent; leaves 
subcordate, subrepand, fleshy, petiolate ; racemes terminal ; clusters 
3—4-flowered ; pedicels short, slender, jointed at the middle ; inner 
perianth-segments (especially towards. the apex) finely laciniate- 
fimbriate, almost plumose. Campderd, Monogr. Rum. 138 ; Schult. 
f, Syst. Veg. vii. 1471; Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 501, and in DC. 
Prodr, xiv. 62. 
SoutH Arrica, ex Poiret. 
5. R. sagittatus (Thunb. Prodr. 67) ; stem erect, flexuous ; leaves 
sagittate with obtuse or acute basal lobes, entire, up to 3 in. long 
and 1} in. wide, glabrous, membranous ; petiole up to 14 in. long ; 
panicle terminal, leafless; whorls few-flowered ; pedicels slender, 
jointed near the base ; flowers usually diccious; inner perianth- 
segments in fruit orbicular-cordate, quite entire, strongly reticulate, 
not warted at the base. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult, 341 ; Meisn. in 
Linnea, xiv, 498, and in DC. Prodr. xiv, 68 (incl. var. latilobus) 5 
