126 CARYOPHYLLEEZ (Sond.) _ [Silene. 
3. S. undulata (Ait. Kew. 2. p. 96); viscidly pubescent ; stem erect 
or decumbent at base, branching ; leaves lanceolate, wndulate, the ra- 
dical spathulate, acute, petiolate ; cymes few flowered or paniculate ; 
flowers erect ; fruiting calyces clavato-cylindrical, the thecaphore % of 
capsule. SS. noctiflora, Thunb. Cap. p. 394. H. & Z. No. 260. Hb. 
Un. It. No 757. 8. Thunbergii, H. Mey! non E.& Z. 8. diurniflora, 
Kunz. in Lann. 17. p. 578. 
Has. Hills round Table Mountaim $n both sides and at the Paarl, and else- 
where in Cape and Stellenbosch, Z. & Z7., W.H.H. &c. Mts. near Liefde (S. bellid. 
var. foliosa, Fenzl.) and in Dutoitskloof (S. ornata var. florida, Fenzl.) and S. wundu- 
tata ? 2962, Drege. Jul.-Oct. (Herb. Holm., Vind., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Stem either sub-simple, and six inches high ; or trichotomously branched and 1-2 
feet high, with alternate spreading branches. Cauline leaves sessile, the lower 2-3 
inches long, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute, upper uncial, acuminate, with 
curled margins. Calyx 8-10 lines long, 10 ribbed, venulose, teeth subulate, 14-2 
lines long. Petals white or reddish, their claws longer than the calyx, lamina bifid, 
the lobes denticulate: corona very short. Capsule ovate ; thecaphore variable. 
Known from S. noctiflora, L., which it greatly resembles, by the undulate leaves, 
the longer calyx, and chiefly by the thecaphore, which is very short or scarcely any 
in S. noctiflora. It difters from the following by its white flowers. 
4. S. ornata (Ait. Kew. 2. p. 96); viscoso-pubescent ; stem erect, 
branching ; leaves lanceolate, flat, the radical petiolate ; flowers erect, 
dichotomously cymose or paniculate ; fruiting calyces elliptic- oblong ; 
thecaphore }as longas the capsule. Bot. Mag. t. 382. DC.l.¢. p. 379: 
EL. § Z.! 262. &. bellidifolia, Thunb. Cap. p. 394. S. Meyer, Fenzl. 
Has. Sandy places on Cape Flats, near Doornhoogde and Riet valley, and near 
“¥ = springs, Caledon, Sept. Oct., Thunberg, E. & Z.! Drege, &c. (Herb. Holm., 
.C.D., Sond.) 
In size, habit and foliage this is very like the preceding, but the leaves are not 
undulate and the flowers are never white. Calyx 8 lines long, 10 ribbed and veiny, 
with lanceolate teeth. Petals deep blood-red, semi-bifid, with broad, denticulate 
lobes ; the claws not longer than the calyx. Corona small. S. ornata var. stricta, 
Fenzl., in Herb. Drege, judging from a very imperfect specimen, certainly does not 
belong to this species. — 
