| : 
| 310 LINEZ (Sond) [Linum. 
{ i Has. Among shrubs, on plains or mountains. a, on the Cape Flats, Pappe, 
Vs om W.H.H. Table Mountain and Devil’s Mt. Ecklon. Hott. Holl. Zey. / 2099. Zwart- 
OL i ~~ kop’s River, Zeyher, 2099, b. Kardow, Zey./ 201. Winterhoeksberg, Preiss. On- 
““/03 der Bokkeveld, Bergvalley and Langevalley ; also in Albany, Drege! 6236. 8. at 
Zwarteberg, Caledon, #.4:Z./ yy, on the shore, Houtniquas, Thunberg. Cape Re- 
cief and Algoa Bay, FZ. g Z./ Zey! 2100. Zwartkops, Kowie and Boschjesman’s 
i River, Drege. 5, Key River. ¢., Witsenberg, Zey!’ 202, c, Ezelbank, 3-4000f. Drege! 
| Oct.-Jan. (Herb. Hook., E. Mey., T.C.D., Sond.) 
| A shrublet, 1-3 feet high. Primary stem mostly short, in y. long, emitting many 
erect, simple or branched, virgate, striated or angular secondary stems. ves 
erecto-patent, rigidly membranous or coriaceous, green or glaucous, more numerous 
and mostly opposite in the lower, scattered in the upper portion of the branches ; all 
one-nerved or in var. y. sub-tri-nerved ; the margin slightly inrolled, very entire. 
Stipulary glands 2, minute or thickened. Infl. cymose-corymbose, the lateral 
branches commonly racemose, most frequently lax, 2-3 inches long, sometimes 6 
inches or more ; in var. y. contracted, 1-2 inches, the eymules short and leafy. 
Bracts leafy. Pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter. Sepals 3-nerved. Petals 
obovate, yellow, villous at base inside, twice or rarely thrice as long as the calyx. 
Styles equalling the petals, or shorter, connate for nearly half their length. Stigmas 
minute, capitellate, Capsule sub-globose, glabrous. 
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_ ** Styles separate to the base, or nearly so. (Sp. 2-4.) 
2. L. thesioides (Bartl. Linn. 7. p. 540); suffruticulose, glabrous; 
secondary stems numerous, ascending or erect, somewhat naked and 
_ paniculato-corymbose above ; leaves mostly alternate, crowded, erect, sub- 
__ imbricate, narrow-linear, acute ; stipulary glands none or rarely solitary 
or in pairs; sepals ovate, acute, pectinato-ciliate, about equalling the 
capsule, £.&Z.! 270. L. spec. pl. lc. p. 494. L. africanum. 8. 
minus, H. Mey. ! ex parte. 5 
Has. Stony and sandy places at the foot of the Lion’s Mt., Wynberg, and 
ro D. Sond)” E, & Z,! Mundt., Drege, W.H.H., Zey./ 2026. Dec.-Feb. (Herb. 
Resembling the smaller specimens of Z. africanum ; this differs in the smaller 
size, the stems being commonly 3-6 inches, rarely 1 foot long, and more slender ; 
in the smaller leaves, 3-4, rarely 5 lines long, } line wide ; and smaller flowers. 
Root thick. Leaves evidently one-nerved below. Corymb short, few-flowered, an 
inch or rarely two inches long, sometimes 2-4 flo . Pedicels as long as the 
calyx or shorter. Sepals one line long, remarkably ciliate. Petals yellow, twice as 
long as the calyx, equalling the styles. 
3. L. Thunbergii (E. & Z.! 275, excl. syn.); suffruticulose; second- 
_ ary stems numerous, erect, simple, much-branched, glabrous, or pubes- 
cent below ; lower leaves opposite, rarely ternate or quaternate, oblong 
or oblongo-lanceolate, mucronulate, intermedial sub-linear, opposite or 
ernate, shorter than the internode, uppermost and floral subulate ; 
salary ; 2 or none; branches of the dichotomous cyme race- 
ate, acute, glandular-ciliate, about as long as the cap- 
(virginianum ), Reichb. Ic. Exot. 1. t. 46. opt. / L. 
p- 495. L. racemosum, E. Mey.! Zey.! 203, 
isposed in an irregular, 6-12 inches 
