Giesekia. | PHYTOLACCE& (Sond.) 155 
-Sub-genus 2. Dicarpaa. Petals none. Inflorescence axillary or op- 
posite the leaves, sessile, glomerulate. (Sp. 7-8.) 
7%, L. glomeratum (E. & Z.! En, No. 1841); stems diffuse or procum- 
bent, divaricately branched, herbaceous, glandularly pubescent and 
viscid ; leaves on longish petioles, elliptic-oblong or broadly linear, 
tapering at base, very obtuse, the petiole, mid-rib and margin minutely 
glandularly pubescent ; cymes lateral, subsessile, dense, globose, 3-12- 
flowered ; sepals ovate, sub-acute, herbaceous, nerveless ; fruits as long 
as the sepals, pitted. Mog. in DC. Prod. l. c. p. 24 ; also L. Meyeri, 
Fenzl. Mog. l.c.p.24. Zey. No. 626. “2 
‘Has. Siloh, near Klipplaat River, Caffraria, 7.4 Z./ ©. Drege edon 
River, Dulteadd Saini diel Eicks 0D Meador ae ee 
. Widely spreading and branching, with the aspect of L. viscosum, but the leaves are 
proportionably longer and less obovate, and the cymes nearly or quite sessile. Petals 
generally wanting. Mogquin (in DC. Prod, l.c.) retains LZ. Meyeri, Fenzl, founded 
on the L. glomeratum, Drege, as distinct from the original plant of Eck. & Zey.; call- 
ing the first ‘‘herbaceous,” the latter ‘‘suffruticose.” J have examined and com 
Ecklon’s and Drege’s original specimens in Herb. Sond.; and Burke and Zeyher’s in 
Herb. Hook., and T.C.D., but failed to find any tangible character to separate them. 
All Spot orien and very probably annual, judging by the roots of such specimens 
as ve them, ; 
8. L. linifolium (Fenzl, Monogr. p. 342); annual, glabrous ; stems 
diffuse, branching, angular and striate ; leaves sub-sessile, narrow-linear, 
elongate, tapering at base, obtuse or sub-acute, mucronulate ; cymes 
opposite the leaves, sessile, dense, sub-globose, several-flowered ; sepals 
ovate, acuminate, nerveless, albo-marginate ; fruits as long as the sepals, 
bristling with sharp tubercles. Mog. in DC. Prod. 13. 2. p.24. Dicar- 
pea linifolia, Presl. Drege, 2631. 
Has. 8. Africa, Drege/ Caledon River, Burke/ (Herb. Hook., Benth., Sond.). 
A very distinct species, with very narrow leaves, an inch or more in length, and 
from } line to 1 line in breadth. The sepals have a wide, white border and the fruits 
differ from those of the other species... ets . : 
IIL GIESEKIA. Linn. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, herbaceous, with membranous edges, 
sometimes coloured. Petals none. Stamens 5-15, hypogynous, sepa- 
rate, alternating singly or in parcels of two or three with the sepals ; 
filaments expanded at the base, subulate. Carpels 5 (sometimes 3-4), 
sessile on a small torus, separate ; ovules solitary, erect ; styles 3-5, 
continuous with the inner-angle of the carpel. Fruit lodged in the 
persistent calyx, consisting of 3-5, one-seeded, warted or crested, dry 
cocci ; embryo peripheric. nd. Gen. 5261. Mog. in DC. Prod. 13. 
2. p. 26. 
Small, annual, or rarely perennial weeds, growing in sandy soil and near river 
tan ahs sondegpepdinghnbe Jores copes or alnastn, eli ame 
’ JODO , imme im! 
pare agent a ish-purple, in ee or compound cymes. Ernie dry and 
hard, nut-like.. Named in honour of P. D. Gieseke, a German botanist, who pub- 
lished figures of plants in £777. eioct base ton it tect 
1. G. pharnaceoides (Linn.); annual ; stems diffuse or prostrat 
