140 -CARYOPHYLLE (Sond.) [Pharnaceum. 
4-1} feet high ; branches 1-2 inches, or 3-6 inches long, slender, comose at the 
end. Leaves fleshy, glabrous, furrowed below, rigid, patent or recurved, in some 
specimens 2—4lines, in others 6-12 lines long. Stipules silvery, the sub-simple fim- 
brils never curled. Peduncles solitary or several from the terminal tuft of leaves, _ 
1-16 inches long. Cyme 2-3-chotomous, the branches often racemose, spreading ; 
the pedicels at base bracteated by a tuft of stipules or leaves. Sepals with wide mar- 
i Anthers orange. Capsule ovoid-triangular, as long as the calyx or longer. 
Only to be known from the preceding by its stipules. 
5. P. reflexum (E. & Z.! No. 1825); suffruticose, erect, di-tri-choto- 
mous or densely branched, branches naked at base ; leavesthickish or 
slender, filiform, muticous or mucronulate, scattered or crowded, recurvo- 
patent, never crowded in a tuft at the end of the branches ; stipules at 
length deciduous, pectinato-fimbriate, the shreds very slender, curled, but 
not interwoven in dense glomerules ; peduncles scape-like, cymose, many- 
flowered ; seeds globoso-lenticular, very finely granulated. Fenzl, l. ¢. p. 
251. P. albens, L. fil. Suppl. 186% Thunb. Cap. p. 274% Ginginsa 
aurantia, DC.l.c. P. lineare, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 326. 
Has. In stony places of the Karroo, near Gauritz River, Swell., Z. & Z./ Krit- 
semberg, Lichtenstein. Wupperthall and Silverfontein, Modderfontein and elsewhere 
in Namaqualand, Drege/ Sep.-Nov. (Herb. T.C.D., Lehm., Sond.). 
3-12 inches long, like the preceding, but more robust, Leaves unequal, fleshy, 
roundish, 2-6 lines to nearly 1 inch long, 4—3 line wide. Stipules minute, silky. 
Peduncles short or long, terminated by a tuft of stipules or whorl of leaves. Cymes 
2~3-chotomous or racemiform, simple or proliferous, forming a compound umbel. 
Sepals oblong or oval, 1-21 lines long, yellow or white-margined. Stigmata pur- 
plish-orange or golden. Capsule of the preceding, but the seeds have a more evident 
margin and are very minutely granulated. 
6. P. detonsum (Fenzl, |. c.p. 253); suffruticulose, squarrose; branches 
woody, short, leafy; leaves crowded, elongate-filiform, aristato-mucronate, 
rather straight ; stipules subulate-setaceous, simple, not fimbriate; seeds _ 
globoso-lenticular, very smooth, shining. P. patens, H. & Z,/ No. 1820, 
ex parte. 
cyme. 
lines long, with white or yellow margins. Capsule rather longer than the sepals. 
black. Very near P. dichotomum, but the stem is branched, the branches 
