146 CARYOPHYLLEH (Sond.) [Psammotropha. 
0-4 XIX. PSAMMOTROPHA. E. & Z. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals oval, with petaloid margins. Petals none. 
Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals; anthers globose. Hypogynous- 
disc none. Style very short; stigmata 3-5, filiform. Capsule 3-5 
angled, sub-globose, 3-5 celled, 3-5 valved, loculicidal; valves septi- 
ferous in the middle ; cells one-seeded. Seeds globulose, granulate, | 
not strophiolate. Endl. Gen. 5189. Fenzl. 1. c. 2. p. 263. ? 
Small suffrutices or much-branched perennials ; stipulate or exstipulate. Branches 
bent at the nodes, and verticillately leaved ; sometimes inordinately ramulose, 
quadrifariously imbricated throughout with densely crowded, rigid leaves, so as to be 
acutely tetragonal. Flowers minute, on lateral or terminal articulate peduncles, in 
simple umbellules, sessile at the nodes or crowded about the forks. Name papmos, ; ] 
sand and rpodos, a nurse. . 
1. P. quadrangularis (Fenzl, 1 c. p. 264.); fruticulose, flexuously 
diesth, teanchat ; leaves ALS subulate +), lines long) mucronulate, 
or aristate, rigid, with thick margins, exstipulate, those of the branches 
very closely set in four ranks; of the peduncles whorled, equalling the 
lateral, sessile umbels. Pharnacewm quadrangulare, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 
185. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 275. E.&. Z.! No. 1832. Mollugo quad- 
rangularis, DC. Prod 1. p. 393. 
Var. «. mucronata (Fenzl) ; leaves triangular-subulate, white edged, 
acute and mucronulate. 
Var. 8. subulifolia (Fenzl) ; leaves subulate-setaceous, awned, one- 
coloured, 
Has. Koude Bokkeveld, on the mts. near Verkeerde Valley and elsewhere, 
Thunberg. Stony places near Ezelsfontein and in Onderbokkeveld, 2500-4000f., 
Sai . B Swellendam, Drege. Heerelogement, Ecklon. Oct.-Dec. (Herb. T.C.D.; 
nad. 
Aspect of Andromeda hypnoides ; very smooth, aspan long, erect or diffuse ; the 
primary branches leafless, or covered with dead leaves, the ramuli 12 inches long, 
densely leafy. Leaves rigid, in a, 4-2 lines long, 4_t line wide at base ; in B, 1-3 
lines long, { line wide, pale green or yellow. Peduncles terminal, mostly solitary, 
very slender, }-1 inch long, terminated with a whorl of leaves and 3-7 pedicels 
about an inch long, nodoso-articulate and laterally umbelliferous. Flowers minute, 
ae ratatlnte at the nodes of the pedicels ; pedicels 1-2 lines long, Late 
aly x ong, globose. Capsule sharpl. angled, equalling or exceeding 
_ ealyx. Seeds brown, not glossy. get 
