Cerastium. | CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) 131 
cauline narrower, without axillary fascicles ; cyme repeatedly forked ; 
bracts leafy, oblong-linear ; fruiting pedicels twice as long as the calyx; 
sepals ovato-lanceolate ; petals obcordate, one-half longer than the calyx, 
Fenda, l.c. p. 340. buck 
Var. 6. glutinosum ; stems weaker, shortly glanduloso-pilose from 
the base. C. arvense, HL. & Z.! 268, non Linn, 
Has. On the Wittberg, 7-8000 f., Drege/ 8. High Mts. at Klipplaats River, 
Tambukiland, and at Kat River, 2. d 2.’ Oct.-Jan. (Herb. Vind., Sond.). 
Perennial, with the primd facie habit of Arabis hirsuta, straight, leafy, a span high. 
Lower leaves 1 inch long, 3 lines wide, upper sub-remote, 3 inch long. Flowers 
nearly as in C. Dreget, but the petals longer. Ripe capsule not seen. £8 has shorter 
lower leaves, and more slender flowering stems, erect or ascending, 6-9 inches long, 
covered with a short pubescence ; perhaps a distinct species, : 
** Micropetala ; petals not exceeding the calye. Root annual. (Sp. 3-4.) 
3. ©. capense (Sond.); annual, simple or branched, pubescent at base, 
towards the apex, glandularly viscid, with short pubescence ; lower © | 
leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, upper smaller, oblong, acute; cyme lax; 
bracts herbaceous ; fruiting pedicels cernuous, 14-2.ce as*long as the : 
calyx ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious at the margin and the nude 
apex ; petals } shorter than the calyx ; st. 10; the scarcely curved eap- 
sule twice as long as the sepals ; seeds brown, densely tuberculated. 
S. semidecandrum, pentandrum, and vulgatum, E. & Z.! 265, 266, 267. 
Zey. 1965, 6. 
Has. Sandy places below Table Mt. and at the summit. Also near Caledon 
Baths, at the Zwartkops River, and in Adow, #.¢Z./ (Herb. Sond.). 
Annual, 3-6 inches high, with the habit of C. vulgatum, L.,(€. triviale, Link.) and 
C. glutinosum, Fries. From the first it differs by its annual root, and all the bracts 
herbaceous ; from C. glutinosum (pumilum, Curt., Lond., 2. t. 92), which it much 
resembles, by the pubescence on the lower stem, with patent, white, not glandular 
hairs, the lower leaves larger, all the bracts herbaceous, not the upper ones searious 
at margin, the petals smaller and the seeds twice as large, brown, more densely _ 
covered with more raised tubercles. From C. semidecandrum it differs by its more 
robust habit, bracts never semi-scarious, larger calyces, shorter petals, and different — 
4. C. viscosum (Linn. Sp. p. 627. excl. syn.); annual, clothed with a 
soft, glandular or non-glandular pubescence ; stem erect or ascending, 
branched ; leaves subrotund and oval, the lower tapering into a petiole ; 
cymes many-flowered, with glomerate branches, all the bracts herbaceous 
and the calyces bearded at tip ; fruiting pedicels as long as the calyx or 
shorter. £. dé Z./ 269. ©. vulgatum, L. Herb., non Sp. pl. £. Bot. t. 789. — 
E. & Z. 267 ex parte, C. glomeratum, Thuill. Fl. Dan. t. 1921. C. 
ovale, Pers. Syn. i. p. 521. — 
Cape Flats and round Table Mt., in sandy places, F. ¢ 2.’ Groen 
esc. Pe, Drak? Cink ek, TOD). eee 
6-12 inches high, yellowish-green, the branches mostly ascending. _ Leaves larger 
than in the preceding. Panicle cymoid, crowded, at length more effuse and open. 
Fruit stalks erect or inclined. Petals as long as the calyx ; capsule twice 
