128 CARYOPHYLLE& (Sond.) [Silene 
clavate ; thecaphore 2-3 times shorter than the capsule. DO. l. ¢. p. 376. 
L,&Z.! 250. 8. linifolia, Willd. En. p. 473. DC... S. cernua, Thunb. 
Cap. p. 394. Hb. Un. It. No 760. SS. recta, Bartl. Lin. 7. p. 623. 
E. & Z.! 249. 8. Constantia, HE. § Z.! 251. 
Var. a. minor; stem slender, generally much branched from the base; 
the cauline leaves linear ; flowers sub-solitary or few in a raceme. 
Var. £8. major; stem taller, branching; cauline leaves linear-lanceo- 
late ; flowers more numerous, racemose, cernuous before opening. 
Has. Sandy places and on hills round Capetown ; at Berg River ; on Assagais- 
kloof and at Malabarshoogde, and Ebenezer, &c.; Zwartkops River, Uit. 2. 42Z./ 
! Pappe, §e.; Zey. No. 83, 1960, and 1961. (Herb. Holm., Jacq., Lehm., 
T.C.D., Sond.). S 
Annual, filiform, 3-12 inches high, covered with a short pubescence, sub-simple 
or branched from the base; branches erecto-patent. Leaves in the dwarfer speci- 
mens 6 lines, in the larger 1-2 inches long, 3-1 line wide, scabrid, ciliate at the 
margin, chiefly at base. Branches in the lesser specimens 1-2 flowered, in the 
larger, 3-6 flowered, racemose, secund. Calyx 5 lines long, downy, 10-nerved, 
nerves raised, teeth obtuse. Petals, according to Thunberg, white ; judging by the 
dried specimens, rosy ; lamina, short, bifid, coronate. Capsule 4 lines long, with 
short, recurved teeth. 
10. S. Burchellii (Otth., DC. Prod. 1. p. 374) ; pubescent, roughish ; 
stem simple or branched, leafy, denudate above ; the leaves lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, the lower broader; flowers racemose, the fruiting 
calyces very long, clavate ; thecaphore as long as the capsule or longer. 
Var. «. angustifolia; leaves lin.-lanceolate or linear. S. cernua, 
Bartl. E. & Z.1 256, non Thunb. 8. cernua, Drege, ex parte. — 
Var. @. pilosellefolia; stems decumbent at base ; lower leaves 
crowded, spathulato-lanceolate, acute or mucronulate, upper linear-lan- 
ceolate. SS. piloselleefolia, Cham. & Schl. Linn. 1. p. 41. — 
Var. y. latifolia; stem erect, leafy to the middle ; lower leaves — 
mu- 
much branched, leaty, : 
lanceolate ; 
