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Adenogramma.] CARYOPHYLLE (Sond.) 149 
Has. On the hills round Capetown, at both sides of Table Mountain, and at 
Campsbay, Ecklon, Sieber. W.H.H. Pappe, &c. Piquetberg, Zey. No. 1450. Drege, 
8262. Oct. Dec. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) 
6-18 inches high, more or less branched : with the aspect of a Lycopodium or of a 
Stoebe or Seriphium. The minute flowers, hidden among the imbricated leaves, 
easily escape notice. 
Sub-Order VI. ADENoGRAMMEs (Gen. XXII.) 
XXII. ADENOGRAMMA, Reichb. 
Calyx 5-parted, ovoid or globose, sepals coloured at the margin and 
on the inside. Petals none. Stamens 5, alternating with the sepals, 
connate at base into a membranous, hypogynous ring. Anthers oval, ver- 
satile. Ovary one-celled, with a single ovule attached to a basal ascend- 
ing seed-cord. Style simple ; stigma capitate. Utricle indehiscent, coni- 
cal, straight, compressed or lenticular, obliquely acuminate, smooth or 
papillated. Seed ovoid, with a membranous coat. Zndl., No. 5195. 
fend, l. c. p. 274. Steudelia, Presi. 
Suffrutices or annual herbaceous plants ; slender, dichotomous, diffuse and gla- 
brous. Leaves whorled, those of the perennial branches imbricate, obovate, lan- 
ceolate, linear or filiform, very obsoletely stipulate. Flowers small, sessile or on 
short pedicels, disposed in sessile, axillary umbels. 
Sect. 1: Surrruticose; stem and branches woody; branchlets 
densely leafy ; leaves imbricate ; floriferous branches panicled, with 
whorls of leaves at the nodes. (Sp. 1.). 
1. A. rigida (Sond.) ; suffruticose ; stem di-tri-chotomous ; branch- 
lets leafy ; leaves crowded, from a dilated, imbricating base elongate- 
subulate, pungently mucronate, sub-recurved, without stipules ; flower- 
ing branches elongate, panicled, whorled with stipulate, lanceolate or 
subulate leaves at the distant nodes, those of the upper nodes shorter ; 
stipules setaceous, deciduous ; pedicels few, axillary, equalling the 
leaves, one-flowered. Pharnaceum rigidum, Bartl. in Lin. 7. p. 626. 
Psammotropha rigida, Fenzl, l. c. p. 266, 
~ Es — below Tigerberg, near Riet Valley, Ecklon, W.H.H. Dec. (Herb. 
: i a pigeon’s prostrate, many times divided ; branches 
Bprgetas oe heave hat wit persistent ~ ns ramuli inch long, 
leafy. Leaves filiform-subulate, furrowed above, 4-1 inch long. Flowering branches 
terete, 6-12 inches long, with swollen nodes, the internodes 3-14 inches long, 
branchlets sub-horizontally patent, elongate, the lowest ones ramulose, the upper- 
most short and very slender. Pedicels about 1 line long, capillary. Flowers I lin 
long. Sepals white-edged. Capsule shining, one-seeded. 
Sect. 2. Dirruse suFFrRUTICES, with long, much divided, filiform 
branches ; all the leaves whorled, either obovate, elliptical, lanceolate 
or linear. (Sp. 2-4). : 
2. A. sylvatica (Fenzl, |. c. p. 275.); leaves obovate, oval or oblong, 
aristate, thinly nous, 1 
lary, fugacious. Steudelia sylvatica, £E.§ Z.! No, 1 ; eee 
Has, In woods at the River Zonler Ende and near Gnadendhal ; also near Ca- 
, but long algerie eas - : : . 
