144 CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) [Hypertelis. 
short mucro. Stipules scarious, a line long, from a broad base, narrowly lacerate. 
Flowers seemingly sub-sessile, but really pedicellate and cymose ; the intermediate 
flower sub-sessile, the lateral 2-4, evidently stalked. Calyx 1 line long, 5 parted ; 
sepals elliptical, mucronate, with a green dorsal nerve. Hypog. disc none. St. 5, 
shorter than the sepals ; the anthers sub-globose. Stigmata 3, short, recurved. 
Capsule membranous, prismatic-3-angled, glabrous, 3-celled, loculicidally dehiscent, 
cells many-seeded. Seeds minute, lenticular, irtaeie: very smooth, shining, 
not ie, Pat Habit of a Scleranthus ; or rather of Minuartia or Loefilingia. 
APPENDIX. Doubtful species. 
16. P. teretifolium (Thunb. Fl Cap. p. 274.) ; caudex fruticose, 
erect, divaricately branched ; leaves filiform, mucronate, 4 line long ; 
pedicels shorter than the leaves, Fenzl, l, c. p. 259. Moll. teretifolra, 
Ser. in DC. Prod. 1. p. 393. Ging. teretifolia DC. Prod. 3. p. 303. 
Has. Near Witte Klipp, Thunberg. Oct. 
‘* Stem suffruticose, terete, ash-coloured, entirely glabrous, a foot high. Branches 
opposite, divaricate, slightly divided. Rameal leaves whorled, terete, subulate, 
entire, spreading, } line long. Umbels lateral, simple, pedunculate. Peduncles 
capillary, shorter than the leaf.” Thunb. l. e. 
According to Fenzl it is allied to P. incanum or P. a and perhaps a va- 
riety of one or other. To me, however, it oe by the description, not to belong 
to the present genus, but to Adenogramma, and to be near A. rgida, if not the 
same. 
te 
XVIII. HYPERTELIS, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5—parted, the sepals very obtuse, membrane-edged, coloured. 
Petals none. Stamens 3-5, or 12-16 in two rows, the 5 outer alter- 
nating with the sepals, shorter, the inner connate at base and longer ; 
or 20-30, in 3 3 parcels opposite the dissepiments of the ovary, con- 
nate at base, alternating with a few free stamens. Anthers oblong. 
Hypogynous-dise none. Style none ; stigmata 3-5, fleshy, recurved, 
white. Capsule ellipsoid, 3—5 furrowed, 3—5 celled, 3-5 valved, locu- 
licidally dehiscent, the valves septiferous i in the middle: cells many- 
seeded, Seeds lenticular, or pyriform, very smooth, shining, not stro- 
phiolate. ndl. No. 5188. Fenzl, l. c. 2. p. 261. 
Small, decumbent suffrutices or annual or perennial herbs, natives of South 
Africa. Leaves glaucous, filiform, sub-terete, pointless, fleshy, dilated at base 
into a stipulary, amplexicaul, truncate, unidentate sheath ; all either alternate and 
or remotely whorled. Umbels simple, on long peduncles, rarely shorter 
. than the jane. fee not explained : dep, Tndus: but why? 
* Suffruticose : stamens 12 or more. (Sp. 1-2.) 
x. 
verrucosa (Fenzl, 1. cap. 262.)-5 suffruticulose, with a very 
., and short ieiggres leaves alternate, densely set, or fasct- 
culately crowded ; ; stipulary sheaths broad; peduncles 4-8. flowered, 
4s loge tha ea peduncles, pedicels and calyces ver- 
rucose above; stamens 11-16, in two rows; seeds pyriform. Phar- 
) verrucosum, BE. dé Z. a —— By Jealeaeies,Derch Trav. 
