138 CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) [Pharnaceum. 
Small, slender, procumbent, dichotomously branched annuals, natives of the tropics 
and warmer temperate zones, chiefly of the old world. Leaves linear or spathulate, 
whorled round the nodes. Stipules obsolete, fugacious. Cymes dichotomous, race- 
miform, axillary ; or sessile or pedunculate umbellules at the nodes. Named from 
the resemblance in habit to Galiwm Mollugo, supposed to be the Mollugo of the 
ancients, 
1. M. Cerviana (Seringe) ; quite glabrous, glaucous; stems filiform, 
straight, erecto-patent or diffuse ; radical leaves rosulate, obovate, spa- 
thulate, linear, obtuse ; cauline remote, narrow-linear ; umbellules 3-5 
flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx ; stamens 5 ; seeds shining, 
small, very minutely reticulated. 
Var. «. linearis (Fenzl,); radical leaves narrow-linear. I. Cerviana, 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 392. Pharnaceuwm Cerviana, Lin, Sp. 1. p. 388. 
Var. 8. spathulefolia (Fenzl,); radical leaves cuneato-linear, obovate, 
and widely spathulate, mucronulate, pointless or retuse. Pharm. Cer- 
viana, Lam. Ill, t. 214. f. 2. 
Var. y. pygmea ; stems subsimple, 4-1 inch long, diffuse ; branches 
spreading ; radical leaves narrow-spathulate, obtuse, cauline little nar- 
rower; pedicels spreading ; seeds very minute. Be 
Has. Sandy places at Kamos, Zey./ 622. 8 Breederiverspont, Zeyher. Between 
Driekoppen and Bloedrivier, 2000-3000 £. Drege. Gamkerivier, Burke and Zey.! 613. 
(Herb. 'T.C.D., Sond.). : : 
Root slender. Stems 1-6 inches long, yellow-green. Radical leaves 2-8 lines 
long, 4-1 line wide, somewhat fleshy, one-nerved ; cauline whorled, unequal. Pedi- 
cels capillary, 3-6 lines long. Sepals oval, membranous, white, with a green nerve, 
tline long. Capsule equalling the calyx. Seeds brown, 3-angled-pyriform. 
XVII PHARNACEUM, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals very obtuse, petaloid within and at the margin. 
Petals none. Stamens 5, perigynous, in the base of the calyx and alter- 
nate with the sepals; anthers linear-oblong, rarely sub-globose. Hypo- 
gynous-disc cup-shaped, 3-5-fid, rarely obsolete. Style none ; stugmata 
3, obovate, fleshy, crest-like, coloured or white, rarely terete. Capsule 
membranous, roundish-three-angled below, three-angled above, 3-fur- 
rowed, trilocular, 3-valved, loculicidal ; seeds 4-8 in each cell, globoso- 
lenticular, acutely margined, or sub-globose with a raised dorsal line, 
not strophiolate. Endl. Gen. 5187. Fenzl, l.c. 2. p.246. Ginginsia, DC. 
at the summit (Sp. 1-6). 
“1. P. trigonum (E. & 
