150 CARYOPHYLLE® (Sond.) [Adenogramma. 
ledon’s Baths, £.d4Z./ Breede river, Zey/ 2488. Near Gnadendhal, at Dutoit’s 
Kloof, and at Vanstaadensberg, Drege. Oct. Jan, (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) 
Aspect of a Galium. Root thick, perpendicular, 3-6 inches long. Stems many, 
1-3 feet long, filiform, weak, spreading or scandent, dichotomous or somewhat 
whorled, very smooth ; the branchlets capillary. Lower internodes 2-4 inches 
long, upper shorter. Leaves 3-8 in a whorl, stellately patent, at length reflexed, 
bright green with a pale awn, 4-6 lines long, 1-3 lines wide, the uppermost nar- 
rower and shorter. Stipules setaceous, $ line long. Flowers axillary, 3-7 together ; 
pedicels as long as the leaves or longer. Calyx globose, j-1 line long, with obtuse 
sepals. Ovary ovoid, sub-compressed ; style oblique. 
3. A. diffusa (Fenzl, 1. c. p. 275.); leaves oblongo-or linear-lanceo- 
late, mucronate, fleshy, rigid, deciduous; stipules obsolete or none. 
Pharn. diffusum, Bartl. Linn. 7. p. 625. P. Lichtensteinianum, Roem. 
and Sch. (excl. syn.) Mollugo Lichtensteiniana, DC. Prod. 1. p. 393+ 
excl. syn. Steudelia diffusa, E. & Z.! No, 1811. Herb. Un. It. 627. 
ex parte. 
Has. Sandy and stony places on the sides of Table Mountain, towards the 
North and East, E. & Z.! Krauss, Drege, W.H.H. + Swellendam, Mundt. Klip- 
fontein, Zeyher. No. 618, 2490. Aug.—Noy. (Herb. T.C.D,, Sond.) _ 
_ Very like the preceding, but the stems are slender and somewhat rigid, ascend- 
ing at the points, and the leaves are smaller, fleshy and quickly deciduous, Stems 
10-18 inches long. Leaves 3-8 in a whorl, 2-21 lines long 3-3 line wide, the up- 
en ones smaller. Stipules capillary, minute, only obvious among the uppermost 
ves. Flowers , 2-7 together, pedicellate ; pedicels longer or shorter than 
the ania: _ Capsules sub-globose, shortly mucronulate, obsoletely rugulose, shining, 
4. A. lampocarpa (E. Mey. in Hb. Drege); leaves linear, 
. ( . in Hb. ; very narrow , 
sub-carinate, hook- inted, deciduous ; stipules scarcely any. Fenzl, L. 
3 P. 276, Steudelia capillaris, E,& Z.! No, 1810, 
AB. Among shrubs on the mountains near Dutoitskloof, 1s00-2000f. Drege. 
Mountain sides near Riv. Zonderende, E, & Z. / (Herb. T.C_D., Sond.). s 
A diffuse, much-branched suffrutex, closely related to A. digfusa, but differing in 
the slender stems, capillary branches, less fleshy linear leaves, 2-3 lines long, $-4 
line wide, prominently nerved below and hooked at the point. Flowers on pedi- 
cels longer or shorter than the leaves. Sepals 4} line long, petaloid, Capsule 
Sect. 8. Axxvais; simple or many-stemmed, diffusely branched, 
- ii y branc 
-Many-flowered ; leaves linear-subulate, or subulate-setaceous. (Sp.5-7)- 
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