Hypertelis.] CARYOPHYLLE& (Sond.) 145 
near Verleptram, and at the Gamke River, near Jackalsfontein, Dreye. Gauritz 
River, Swell., #.& Z. Gamke, Zey. 615. Macallisberg and Bitterfontein, Zey., 
Wo. 2842. 8. Sondag’s rivier, near Blauwekraus, Graaf Reynet and Albany, Drege. * 
(Herb. T.C.D., Lehm., Sond.) 
Root woody. Stem, branches and ramuli whitish. Branches 1-3 inches long ; 
twice longer in 8, leafy, glabrous. Leaves terete filiform, 4-10 lines long, 4-1 line 
wide. Stipulary sheath hyaline, with taper-pointed teeth. Peduncles straight, 
umbelliferous, axillary and terminal, 2~5 inches long. Umbels quite simple ; pedi- 
cels 4-10 lines long, divergent after flowering ; sepals 13-24 lines long. Capsule equal- 
ling the calyx. Seeds sub-compressed, black. 
; 2. H. spergulacea (I. Mey. in Hb. Drege); suffruticose, stems as- 
= cending; lower leaves crowded, linear wedge-shaped ; cauline remotely 
. whorled, narrow-linear ; stipulary sheaths short ; peduncles, pedicels 
and calyces quite smooth ; stamens 20-30 ; most of them united at base 
into 3—5 parcels, a few free ; seeds lenticular. 
Has. Stony places near Verleptram, Gariep, Drege/ (Herb. Sond.) — 
| Habit of Spergula or of Pharnaceum lineare. A glabrous, glaucous suffrutex, 
about a foot high. Root whitish. Leaves at the base of stem fleshy, 6-8 lines 
long, $-1 line wide. Stems simple or forked, branches filiform, rigid. Leaves 
5-10 in a whorl, at the tumid nodes, unequal, 4-8 lines long. Peduncles 1-2} oe 
inches long, sub-umbellate ; pedicels 6-12 lines long, very slender. Sepals oval- o 
elliptic, 2-3 lines wide. Capsule as long as calyx. Seeds shining, black. Easily | 
known from the preceding by its long stems, remotely whorled (not crowded) leaves, 
and absence of tubercles. 
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** Annuals or biennials ; stamens 3-5. (Sp. 3-4) ca 4 
3. H. arenicola (Sond.) ; annual or biennial, quite glabrous, glaucous ; se 
stems prostrate, branched; leaves opposite or tufted, fleshy, linear- eek 
terete, obtuse, attenuate at base, radical none; stipulary sheaths wide, 
with subulato-acuminate teeth ; peduncles axillary 3-4 times shorter 
than the leaf, 2-3 flowered ; pedicels equalling the peduncle ; sepals 
very smooth ; stamens 3 ; seeds reniform, minutely roughened. _ m sip: 
Hab. On moist, sandy places at Greenpoint, Capet Zeyher, No, 619, WH. 
Jan.-Mar. (Hat. now, Sond.) sss ponitige sae az pic g 
2-3 inches high, leafy. Root sub-simple. Stems numerous, dichotomous, some- 
what knee-bent, Leaves erect, $-1 inch long 4-1 line wide, longer than the inter- 
nodes. Peduncles erect, pedicels longer than the calyx, bracteate at base. Disc 
fleshy. Is elliptic, sub-petaloid, 1 line long. Stamens on the disc: anthers sub- 
4.H. Bowkeriana (Sond.) ; biennial, quite glabrous, glaucous ; stems 
prostrate, branching; leaves alternate, fasciculate, fleshy, linear-terete, 
sub-acute ; stipulary sheathes broad, with acuminate teeth; peduncles, 
pedicels and calyces sparsely tuberculate or smooth ; peduncles axillary, 
once or twice as long as the leaf, 2-4 flowered ; pedicels much shorter than 
the peduncle ; stamens 5; seeds 3-angled-pyriform, very smooth, 
Albany, Miss Bowker (now Mrs. Barber). (Herb., Hook. i 
vw Pgs fl like H. verrucosa, but differing in the “ ). 
uncles, and few stamens. Branches whitish. Leaves 4-1 inch 
Biipules Mong 2 nae io, 1-1 
I , in fruit 1 % 
