Rumec.] POLYGONACE® (Wright). 477 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Pappe! Sieber, 134! Burke! Harvey, 540! 
Alexander Prior ! 
Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; Groene Kloof (Mamre), Bolus, 4321! near 
Hopefield, Bolus,12811! Cape Div.; Cape Flats between Cape Town and Simons 
Bay, Burchell, 8547 ! sand flats beteen Paarden Island, Tygerberg and Blueberg, 
Drége; Lion Mountain, Ecklon, 710! near Cape Town, Bolus, 2911! Camps 
Bay, Alexander Prior! Caledon Div. ; Bavians Kloof near Genadendal, Dreége. 
Knysna Div. ; near Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5634 ! 
WesTERN Recion : Little Namaqualand ; Kamies Berg, Kaspars Kloof, Elleboog 
Fontein and Geelbeks Kraal, Dréye ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; Kentani, near Columba Mission, 1000 ft., Miss 
Pegler, 725! 
10. R. aquaticus (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 336) ; perennial ; stem 1-3 
ft. high, erect, striate ; radical leaves cordate-ovate or triangular, 
flat or undulate, glabrous, up to 10 in. long and 6 in. wide, central 
leaves oblong, acuminate, cordate or rounded at the base, upper- 
most lanceolate, rounded at the base, all petioled ; panicle terminal, 
leafy at the base only ; branches erect ; pedicels long, slender, not 
jointed ; flowers polygamo-diccious ; inner perianth-segments in 
fruit ovate-triangular, truncate at the base, slightly warted, mem- 
branous, entire, rarely sparingly denticulate, reticulate. Thunb. Fl. 
Cap. ed. Schult. 340; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 42; Reichenb. Ic. 
Fl. Germ. xxiv. 20, t. 160. 
Sournw Arrica: ex Thunberg. : 
Also in Western Europe, Temperate Asia and North America. 
11. R. Meyeri (Meisn. in Linnwa, xiv. 494) ; a herb 1-3 ft. high ; 
stem more or less branched, erect, glabrous, slightly sulcate, often 
purple ; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering downwards, 6 in. 
long, 1-1} in. wide, upper lanceolate or subspathulate, all petioled, 
slightly crisped ; ochree $—1 in. long; panicle terminal, leafless ; 
branches few, spreading ; whorls densely many-flowered, the lower 
separate, the upper confluent ; pedicels }—1 lin. long, spreading or 
recurved, jointed near the apex; perianth tapering downwards ; 
inner segments ovate or ovate-oblong, entire, subobtuse, one with a 
small wart at the base, nerves indistinct. Drége, Zwei PA. Docu- 
mente, 51, 55, 62. R. meyerianus, Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 50. 
CrentrRaAL Reaion: Aliwal North Div.; by the Kraai River, 4500 ft., Dréye ! 
Beaufort West ; Rhenoster Kop, Dréye; Middleberg Div. ; Sneeuw Berg Range, 
Drége. 
12. R. ecklonianus (Meisn. in Linnza, xiv. 493); stem erect, 
almost simple, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 
flat or obscurely undulate, petiolate, up to 7 in. long and 2 in. wide, 
petiolate ; flowers in a terminal leafless panicle with ascending 
branches; whorls many-flowered, approximate, sometimes almost 
contiguous ; pedicels short ; inner perianth-segments ovate, subacute, 
entire, all or only 2 bearing large warts; fruit pendulous. Drége, 
Zwei Pfl. Docwmente, 94, 129. R. Ecklonii, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 50; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr, Phil. Soc. xiv, 312. 
