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Pharnaceum. | CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) 141 
none ; seeds globoso-lenticular, very smooth, shining. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
p. 274. Fenzl, l.c.p.253. H.&Z.! No. 1827. Mollugo linearis, Ser. 
in DC. Prod 1. p. 392. 
Has. Sandy places on the Cape Flats, Zwartland, and Krakakamma, Thunberg, 
E. § Z., Drege §c. Verchevally and 24 Rivers, Zey. / 623 (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) 
Aspect of Spergula arvensis. Stems several, 1-2 feet high, very smooth, the 
internodes 1—s inches long, pale with minute, scarious, fimbriate stipules and 
a whorl of leaves at each node. ves 4—f0 in a whorl, unequal, obtuse, 3-14 inch 
long, 4-1 line wide, spreading, afterwards reflexed. Cymes terminal and axillary, 
pedunculate, dichotomously racemiform, mostly effuse, 4-6 inches long, including 
the peduncle. Sepals 2-37 lines long, petaloid, with a green rib ; anthers golden, 
Stigmata thick, orange or crimson, at length pale and whitish. Capsule ovoid, ob- 
long, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Seeds black. 
8. P. dichotomum (Lin. f. suppl. p. 186) ; caudex short, simple or 
divided ; annual stems slender, erect or spreading, simple or branched, 
whorled with leaves at the nodes ; leaves linear-filiform, mucronulate ; 
stipules ciliato-lacerate ; hypog.-disc tripartite ; seeds globoso-lenticu- 
lar, minutely granulated, shining. Thunb, Fl. Cap. p.274. Fenzl, l. c 
p. 254. Mollugo dichotoma, DC. 1. c. 
Var. a. linearis; lowest leaves crowded in a tuft, 1-2 inches long, 
cuneato-linear 4-1 line wide at the point ; cauline spreading, not. re- 
flexed, stipules few and soon falling off. P. fluviale, E. § Z./ No. 1828, 
Var. @. filifolia (Fenzl) ; all the leaves narrow-filiform, scarcely 
4 line wide, the cauline spreading, not reflexed ; stipules fimbriate, 
clustered at the nodes but not glomerated. Ging. brevicaulis DC. 3. p. 
363. Pharm. patens, E. § Z.! No. 1820, partly. 
Var. y. barbata (Fenzl); leaves linear-filiform ; the cauline at 
length reflexed ; stipules very copious, conglomerated, fimbriato-barbate. 
Has. Vara, stony ground, Zwartkops River, £.gZ./ Zey. 2493a. 8, in the 
same place and at Quaggas Vlakte, at Adow, and Sondags River, Z.¢ Z. Zey. 
2493». In the district of George, Drege, Mundt. &c. Cape Flats, W.H.H. vy. Be- 
tween the Koussie and Gariep, Kl. Namaqualand, 1500-2000f, Drege. (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) : 
Se; 1-1} lines . Capsule rather longer than the = 
625. E. ‘ Z. No. 1819., which is hardly distinguishable from P. subtile, FE. Mey. 
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9. P. Zeyheri (Sond.) ; suffruticulose ; caudex very short, multifid, 
densely clothed with lacerated, silky stipules ; stems numerous, scape- 
like, emerging from the dense tuft of leaves, terminating in a single 
whorl of leaves ; lower leaves linear-spathulate, acute, mucronate aris- 
tate, flat, one-nerved, fleshy, upper narrow-linear, aristate ; stipules 
minute, fimbriate ; cymes racemiform, elongate ; peduncles capillary, 
obsoletely stipulate at base ; sepals elliptical, petaloid with a green — 
dorsal rib ; anthers oblong ; seeds globoso-lenticular, smooth.  Zey. — 
Ne, 614; (90. Si 
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