156. PHYTOLACCEZE (Sond.) [ Phytolacca. 
striate, branched ; leaves on short, membrane-edged petioles, elliptic 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, pale beneath ; cymes sessile or shortly 
pedunculate, rather dense, many-flowered ; flowers nearly as long as the 
pedicels ; sepals concave, sub-acute, three-nerved ; stamens jive. Mog. 
in DC. l. c. p. 27. 
Has. Near the Caledon, Crocodile, and Vaal Rivers, Drege! Burke and Zeyher. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond. ). : 
Root slender, with few fibres. Stems several, 10-12 inches long, spreading over 
the soil. Leaves variable in shape; in the Cape specimens 1 inch long and 4 inch 
wide, tapering at base, and ending in a blunt point. The sepals are boat-shaped, 
pale green, with three dark-green or reddish veins. The cymes are not always sessile; 
but sessile and pedunculate occur on the same root, and I find it impossible, so far 
as S. African forms go, to separate “@. linearifolia” of authors from the common 
variety. In Herb. Hooker the sheet marked ‘ G. linearifolia,” by Moquin himse! 
bears two plants; one, Limeum glomeratwm, from Muddy River, the other a Giesekia, 
with sessile glomerules, from Vaal River, Zey./ 624, ex parte. 
2. G. pentadecandra (E. Mey. MS.); annual ; stems diffuse, forked, 
angular and dotted ; leaves on short channelled petioles, obovate, ellip- 
tic-oblong or linear, tapering at base, obtuse, pale below ; cymes pedun- 
culate, somewhat umbellate, lax, few-flowered ; flowers much shorter 
than the pedicels, purplish ; sepals concave, three-nerved ; stamens jif- 
teen. Mog. in DC. Prod. le p. 28. . 
Has, South Africa, Drege! Zeyher! Natal, Miss Owen. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.) 
A small annual ; branches 6-8 inches long, Leaves very variable in form and 
size. The cymes are more lax than in G@. pharnaceoides, from which this species 18 
easily known by its numerous stamens. 
3. G. Miltus (Fenzl,); “perennial, shrubby; leaves subsessile, oblong, 
obtuse, wry red on both sides; cymes subsessile or pedunculate, umbel- 
late, 5-15-flowered ; flowers shorter than the pedicels, very red.” Mog. 
in DC. Prod. 13. 2.p.28, Miltus Africana, Lour. . 
Has. Dry places near the Orange River, Drege. 
“Stems 4 feet long, prostrate, slender, glabrous. Leaves crowded, minute. 
Stamens 12. The whole plant stro: inged with red.” Mog.l.c. I am unac 
quainted with this remarkable pit —_ fy 
IV. PHYTOLACCA, Tourn. 
——— mostly bisexual. Sepals 5, petaloid, or herbaceous, with 
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