154 PHYTOLACCE (Sond.) [Limeum. 
eymes loosely corymbose ; fruits as long as the obtuse sepals. L, tele- 
phioides, Mog. in Herb, Hook. non E. Mey.! 
spots. Adow; and near Zondag and Zwartkops Rivers, 2. & Z./ 
Dr. Atherstone! Between Eenkoker and Bitterfontein, Hartveld, Zeyher! 
(Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond., Benth.). 
Root woody. Stems several, 3-6 inches high, sparingly branched. Leaves } inch 
long, 2-4 lines wide, mostly broadly obovate and very obtuse, with a minute, reflexed 
point. Flowers smaller than in Z. Africanwm, the sepals blunter and the cymes less 
ing. Var. 8. is nearly intermediate between L. capense and L. Africanum, 
having the calyx of the former, and the foliage and loose cymes of the latter species. 
By Moquin it is referred to L. telephioides, E. Mey. ; but Drege’s original specimens 
_ have the broadly obovate leaves and dense cymes of the common L. capense. 
4. L. Hthiopicum (Burm. Prod. p. 11); stems diffuse, woody, angular 
and striate, minutely scaberulous or glabrous, pale or greenish ; leaves 
on short clasping petioles, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
often mucronulate, glabrous ; cymes terminal and lateral, on short 
peduncles, or sub-sessile, dense, capitato-corymbose, many-flowered ; 
sepals broadly oval, obtuse, mucronulate, one-nerved ; fruit as long as 
the sepals, pitted and furrowed. Thunb. Cap. p. 343. E.& Z. No. 1840. 
Mog. lc. p.22. L. fluviale, E. & Z.! No. 1839. Mog.l.c. Zey. 627, 
628, 629, 2503, 2506. 
Has.. Sand hills and river banks in the eastern districts, Gauritz River, the Lan- 
gekloof, Graaf-Reynet, and near the Zwartkops R., Z.& Z./ Fish River and Geel- 
beck River; and Bitterfontein, Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond. ). 
Nearly related to L. capense, from which it chiefly differs in its more woody stems, 
much narrower and more linear leaves, more prostrate growth and pale bark. L. 
fuviale, B. & Z.! is scarcely separable from the common form ; the characters assigned 
to it are very variable, 
5. L. paucifloram (Mog. in DC. Prod. 13. 2. p. 23); perennial ; stems 
woody, prostrate or decumbent, roundish, glandularly pubescent and 
viscid ; leaves petiolate, broadly obovate, obtuse, thick and leathery, 
undulate, viscoso-puberulous ; cymes shortly pedunculate, lateral, few- 
flowered, sub-simple ; sepals herbaceous, broadly lanceolate, acute; fruits 
shorter than the calyx, deeply pitted and furrowed. Mog./ in Herb. 
Hook. and l. ¢. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. (Herb. Hook.). 
A very depressed, half woody, much branched, rigid perennial, minutely downy 
and viscid in every part. Flowers green, the sepals with scarcely any border, Cyme 
6. L. viscosum (Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. L c.); annual; stems herbaceous, 
ate, widely spreading and cone somewhat angular, glandu- 
t and viscid ; leaves on longish petioles, obovate or oblong, 
mucronulate, pubescent ; cymes on short, lateral pe- 
AL Vien Loe corymbose, several-flowered ; sepals broadly ellip- 
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