Bergia.} ELATINACEE (Harv.) 115 
2. F. pulverulenta (Linn.) ; stems herbaceous, diffuse or prostrate, 
more or less hispid or pubescent ; leaves broadly oval or obovate, flattish, 
pale and powdery-puberulous on ‘the lower surface, the margins slightly 
reflexed ; petioles ciliated ; calyces glabrous, sepals linear, obtuse. DC. 
Prod. 3. p. 349. E.& Z. No. 237. Lam. Jil. t. 262. f. 3. H. Bot. t, 2222, 
F, pulverulenta § PF. nodiflora, of Drege’s Coll. 
ee bere apse’ by the seaside ; Boy as the Great Karroo, Beaufort ; and 
in and, hear the river. Wi 0) 
pie ei = ae Orange ps’ river, Uitenhage, C. Zeyher | 
Stems weak ‘and straggling, less woody than in F. capitata, from which this is 
easily known by its broad, flat leaves, and by the smaller fowers. The underside of 
the leaves is generally minutely downy. In Drege’s specimens marked “ nodifiora” — 
the surface is smooth, but minutely dotted. The pubescence of the branches varies 
greatly in different specimens. 
3. F. nodiflora (Lam. Ill. t. 262. f. 4); “leaves ovate, glabrous, the 
petiole not ciliated ; stems prostrate, glabrous, as well as the calyces.” 
DC. Prod. t. p. 349. Burch. Cat. No. 513. 
Has. South Africa. (Unknown to me: possibly a mere variety of PF. i 
lenta.) 
Orper XV. ELATINACEZ. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
PG Lindl Veg. Kingd. No. 181. Elatinez, Cambess, Endl, 
n, No, 219.) 
Flowers minute, regular, Sepals 3-4-5, separate, acute, imbricate. 
Petals as many as ‘the sepals ota alternate with them. Stamens hypo- 
gynous, as many or twice as many as the petals ; filaments subulate, 
free ; anthers introrse, 2-celled. Ovary free, 3-4—5-locular, with axile 
placentie and numerous ovules ; styles as many as the loculi ; stigmas 
capitate. Capsule dry, splitting, the valves falling away from the per- 
sistent column. Seeds ss peri, straight or curved, exalbu- 
minous, 
often herbs or undershrubs, gro Pr in wet a with Ps 
Flee so am Ee and interpetiolar es. 
axillary, solitary 
A small of ‘minute marsh 
formerly i pe ac in Caryophyllee, oper — anew of the 
fruit, the or I etigmnesand the exalbuminous seeds. They are, perhaps, more nearly 
of an "e pepe eg hin with Lythracee h has also been pointed out ; and Seren! 
L BERGIA. Linn. 
Sepals te. Petals 5, hypogynous. Stamens to, those op oe 
site the lio aici and sometimes deficient. Ovary 5-celled ; reo ee 
5, Separate ; ovules numerous. Capsule oy calles, edge many 
nine ne Endl, Gen, 5476. re 
found in mot places h 
