Adenogramma,| PHYTOLACCE (Sond.) 151 
pedicels at length as long as the flowers or longer ; calyx close-pressed on 
the ovoid or lenticular, obliquely acuminate, punctate capsule, persistent. 
Pharn. Mollugo, Lin. Sp. p. 389. Berg. Fl. Cap. p. 79. Pluck. t. 331. 
J. 4. 2. glomeratum, L. fil. Sp. p. 185. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 273. Moil. 
glomerata, DC. Prod. 1. p. 392. 
Var. a, planifolia (Fenzl); leaves linear-subulate, flat above ; capsule 
very minutely punctate, the acumination twice as short as the lower, 
swollen portion. St, galioides, Presl. Symb.t.2. E. & Z. No. 1808. 
Un. It. 628. 
Var. 8. teretifolia (Fenzl); leaves fleshy, linear-filiform, sub-terete ; 
capsule coarsely punctate, the acumination nearly equalling the lower 
swollen portion, or half as long. 
Has, Cape Flats, and on mountain sides round Capetown, common. Zwartland ; 
and near the Zwartkop’s River and Assagaiskloof, Thunberg. E. d&Z./ de. Zey.! No. 
620 and 2489. July—Nov. (Herb. Thunb., T.C.D., Sond.). 
_ Glaucous green, 2 inches to 14 feet long, very smooth, or rarely minutely downy 
below, with the aspect of a Galium. Stems ascending or diffuse, ched from the 
base ; branches alternate, opposite or whorled, filiform ; branchlets spreading, bearing 
the flowers. Lower internodes 2-3 inches long, upper shorter. Leaves 3-6 lines long, 
4 line wide, 3-12 in a whorl ; the uppermost very small, at length reflexed. Flowers 
copious, crowded in the axils, umbellate ; pedicels unequal, 4-2 lines long. Sepals 
oblong, obtuse, white-edged, £ line long. Capsule brown. 
7. A. Mollugo (Reichb. Icon. Bot. Exot. 2. 3. t. 109) ; leaves linear- 
subulate or filiform ; flowers of the umbellules pedicellate, mixed with 
a few sessile ones ; sepals deciduous in fruit ; capsule globose at base, de- 
pressed, produced into a long, straightish, two-edged beak, once and a-half 
longer, black, shining, granulate on the disc, and margined with raised, 
golden-yellow papilla. Fenzl, l.c.p.278, £. & Z.! No, 1812. Sted, 
Fl. Cap. No. 261. 
Has. Sandy places in the Cape districts, as at Green Point and Mu &. 
oS: Rive tondemiae Swell. Sieber, E.&Z. Zwartland, Drege.! Cheeb Beni}: 
A slender plant; in habit, ramification and leaves closely resembling the last species, 
but smaller (2-4 inches long) more rigid, with fewer leaves; the upper ones smaller. 
Leaves either pointless or mucronate. Flowers in size, disposition and colour as in 
the ponting f Sepals oblong, obtuse, white-edged. Capsule black and shining, 
nearly 1 ng. 
Orper XIX. PHYTOLACCEZ. R. Br. 
is (By w. H. Harver.) 
Phytolaccer, R. Br. Endl. Gen., No. ceviii. Phytolaccace, Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd., No. exciti. DC. Prod. vol. 13. part ii, p. 2.) 
Flowers regular, often apetalous. Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent, its — 
segments generally with membranous margins, imbricated. Petals 4-5, 
or none, fugacious, Stamens sub-hypogynous, as many as the calyx 
lobes and alternate with them, or irregularly more numerous ; filaments 
free or connate at base ; anthers erect or incumbent, bilocular, Ovary 
of two or several (rarely of one) apocarpous or connate, one-ovuled car- 
pels; styles as many as the carpels. F’rwit dry or baccate, breaking up 
into single-seeded nuts or utricules, Seed (asin Caryophyllee) 
