Limeum.) PHYTOLACCEZ (Sond.) 153 
hemispherical carpels, united by their flat side; styles 2, terminal, slender. 
Fruit dry, formed of two separable, one-seeded, indehiscent, hemisphe- 
rical, wingless, dorsally-pitted or echinulate cocci. Seed vertical, with a 
peripheric embryo, ndl. Gen. 5258. Mog. DC. Prod. 13.2. p. 19. 
Small, herbaceous or woody, prostrate or erect, many-stemmed, perennial or an- 
nual plants, natives of S. Africa, and of the tropics of N. Africa. Leaves simple 
and very entire, narrow, somewhat fleshy, often glaucous, glabrous or glandularly 
hairy and viscid. Inflorescence cymoid, terminal or opposite the leaves. Flowers 
small, greenish-white or white. Bracts 3 under each flower, and one under the 
pedicel, Limeum was the ancient name of a poisonous plant, and derived from 
Aotmos, poison. 'These small weeds are acrid poisons. 
Sub-genus 1. Lrweastrum. Flowers with petals. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, or sometimes lateral, loosely cymoid, pedunculated. (Sp. 1~6.) 
1. L. Africanum (Burm. Prod. Fl. Cap. p. 11) ; stems herbaceous, 
prostrate, sub-simple, angular, glabrous, green ; leaves petiolate, taper- 
ing and slightly clasping at base, oblong or lanceolate-linear, acute or 
obtuse, or mucronate, glabrous ; cymes terminal, pedunculate, loosely 
corymbose, much branched ; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, nerveless ; 
fruits pitted and furrowed, much shorter than the sepals, Jog. in DC. 
Prod. 13.2. p.21. E.&2Z.! No. 1836. ; and L. litorale, FE. & Z.! No. 
1837.  Mog.l.c. 
Has. Common round Capetown, on the Lion Mt., &c. Tigerberg, and on the 
shore near Saldanha Bay, Wupperthal, and at Kaus, 3-4000 ft., Namaqualand, 
Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
Root thick, deeply descending. Stems many from the crown, 12-14 inches long, 
spreading in a circle, the ends upturned and flowering. Leaves }-1} inch long. 
slightly fleshy, very variable in form. Sepals with broad, silvery-white margins, 
Cymes 2-21 inches across, flat-topped. 
2. L. canescens (E. Mey. MS.); “stems herbaceous, procumbent, 
branching, angular, glabrous, green ; leaves petiolate, oblong-linear, acute, 
muticous or mucronulate, glabrous, covered with a glaucous rime, the 
lower leaves obovate ; cymes terminal, pedunculate, corymbose, many- 
flowered ; sepals ovate, acuminate, nerveless ; fruits... ...¥’ Mog. 
in DC. Prod. l.¢. p. 21. : 
. S. Africa, Drege 6229. Lange Valley, her 631, ex parte. (Herb. Sond.). 
caesar es a Bette 18 ot lng ender Leaves 
lines long, includin: tiole of 1-2 , 12-2 lines wi pering 
nik Ojanien’ 5-7 tines “wide, vith crowded re a Sepals with white borders.” 
Mog. l.¢. I translate Moquin’s diagnosis for this species, which I only know by a 
specimen in Herb. Sond., from Zeyher; by whom it was mixed with L. capense. 
3. L. capense ((Thunb. Prod. p. 68); stems woody, erect or diffuse, 
angular, glabrous, dull green ; leaves petiolate, tapering and somewhat 
clasping at base, elliptical or obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous ; 
cymes terminal or lateral, on short peduncles, densely many-flowered, 
corymbose ; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, mucronulate, one-nerved ; fruits 
pitted and furrowed, as long as the sepals. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 342. 
E. & Z! No. 1838. Mog. in DC. Prod. t.c.p.at. Zey. No. 2505, 630, — : 
631, ex parte. L. telephuordes, E. Mey.! Mog. 1. c. 
Var. 8. intermedium; leaves narrow-oblong, or oval, subacute ; ae 
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