very. Cymes racemiform, long or short ; peduncles subtended by 
134 CARYOPHYLLEE (Sond.) [Lepigonum. 
tose, branched ; leaves about 6 in a whorl, linear, awned ; cymes corym- 
bose, rather loose; calyces scarious, acuminate. D0. l. c. p. 374,—var. 
stricta. Fenzl, in Hb. Drege; stems straightish, branches erect, not 
divaricate. ; 
Has. At the River Omblas, near Port Natal, Drege, Rev. Mr. Hewetson! (Herb. 
Sond., T.C.D.). 
1-1} feet high ; the stems and branches terete, clothed with a short, dense, whitish 
tomentum, at length glabrescent. Internodes about 1 inch long. Leaves 4, 6, or 
8 together, linear, aristate-acuminate, 6-8 lines long, 1-3 line wide, glabrous, or 
nearly so. Stipules silvery, ovato-lanceolate, lacerate at the point, and toothed at 
the margin, 2-3 lines long. Corymbs dense, an inch broad. Flowers white, scarious, 
1} lines long. 
XI. LEPIGONUM, Fries. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals herbaceous (thickish), nerveless or obtusely 
keeled, equal, muticous. Petals 5, with short claws, entire, sub-hypo- 
gynous. Stamens to (or by abortion 5-3), on a sub-hypogynous ring. 
Ovary unilocular, many-ovuled ; style 3—5-parted. Capsule 3—5-valved, 
many-seeded. Spergularia, Endl. Gen. 5218. Arenarie sp. Auct, vet. 
Cosmopolitan herbs, ing near the sea-shore or on salt ground. Leaves 
site nase sil aeajsed, Heche Stipules membranous. ome rosy or white, 
in racemiform cymes, or in the forks of the branches, pedicellate : the stalks gene- 
rally reflexed after flowering. Name from Aems, a scale, and yovu, a knee or node; 
from the scale-like stipules at the nodes. 
1. L. rubrum (Fries. Wahl. Fl. Gothob. p. 45); annual or biennial; 
leaves linear-filiform, somewhat fleshy, flat on both sides ; stems pros- 
trate and ascending, branched ; branches racemose; pedicels reflexed 
after flowering ; sepals lanceolate, obtuse, membrane-edged ; seeds 3-cor- 
nered-obovate, not winged, minutely tubercled. Kindberg, Syn. Lepig. p. 5. 
Koch. Syn. p. 121. 
Var. « campestris; glabrous or glandularly puberulent ; leaves 
slender-filiform, mostly curved ; stipules lanceolate-acuminate. Are- 
naria rubra, «, campestris, L, sp. p. 606. HE. Bot. t. 852. Stipularia 
rubra, Haw. Spergularia rubra, Fenzl. Spergula rubra, Bartl. £. & 
Z.! No. 1817. 
Var. 8. pinguis; glabrous, or glandularly puberulent; stems sub- 
erect, often straight ; leaves thickish, filiform, scarcely curved ; stipules 
broader; seeds larger. Spergula marina, Bartl. FE. § Z.! No. 1815. 
Lep. capense, Schrad. Kindl. . ¢. . 
ady and stony places round Table and Lion Mts.; and about Tulbagh. 
. 3 inches to a spar por . SS ; . ine Fue bg ehh rovate, sil- 
‘calyx. Cap- 
2 lines long. Petals rosy, as long as the 
