386 UTACEE (Sond.) - [Adenandra. 
Has. West side of Table Mountain, FL. & Z./ Drege! 7147. Oct. (Herb. Lehm., 
Sond.). : 
A foot or more high. Stem thick, scarred. Twigs leafy. Leaves two lines long, 
one line wide, shortly petiolate, underneath with a green, percurrent nerve, but not 
apiculate. Flowers 3-4 in a head, involucrate by the uppermost leaves. Bracts 2 
lines long, leafy, keeled. Calyx 2} lines long. Limb of the petals 3 lines long, white 
above. Anthers oval, with a minute recurved gland. Capsule 3 lines long, ob- 
tuse.—Resembling A. biseriata in habit, but easily distinguished by its capitate, 
gummy flowers. 
4. A. viscida (E. & Z.! 795); the straight, sub-simple stem and the 
angular branches glabrous ; leaves crowded, erecto-patent, oblong or 
ovate-oblong, the upper often ovate, tipped with an obtuse, callus, gla- 
brous, with revolute margins, few-dotted or impunctate beneath ; 
flowers capitate, glutinous ; bracts cuneate, dilated upwards, keeled, the 
keel produced into a thickened, obtuse point ; calyx glabrous, its lobes 
ovate-elliptical, obtuse, with recurved points, not glandular ; petals 
roundish, thrice as long as the calyx. Bartl. Linn. 17 p. 35% 
Bartlingiana, E. § Z. ! 794, excl. syn. A. uniflora, var. ? Schl. 
Has. In stony sub-alpine places. Near Hout Bay, £. Z./! Hemel en Aarde, 
y ites and Zoutendals Valei, Swell., Miss Joubert. Aug.-Sep. (Herb. 
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1 feet hgh. Leaves on very short petioles, 4-6 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, the 
upper mostly smaller and less crowded, pale green underneath, shining, one-nerved, 
with impressed glands at the margin. Heads 4-8-flowered, involucred by the broad- 
ly-ovate or sub-rotund uppermost leaves, Bracts appressed to the calyx, 2} lines 
long, complicato-carinate, memb , prolonged into an obtuse, three-anglee 
_ Calyx 24 lines long, its lobes thickened . upwards. Petals white 
within, flesh-coloured or reddish externally, glabrous. 
5. A. gracilis (E. & Z.1 799) ; stem straight, simple or branched, 
glabrous ; leaves crowded, erecto-patent, oval or obovate, obtuse, glan- 
dular-crenulate, concave, somewhat keeled, glabrous, impunctate ; flowers 
terminal, sessile, capitato-aggregate ; bracteoles obtuse ; calyx glabrous, 
its lobes ovate-elliptical, obtuse, keeled, diaphanous at the margim, 
glandular at back ; petals sub-orbicular, thrice as long as the calyx. 
Has. Stony places on mountain sides at the Zonderende River, near Appels- 
kraal, Swell., £. § Z.! Zey./ 2155. Sep. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D,. Sond.). 
__ 1-2 feet high, with slender, yellow-purplish branches. Leaves on very short pe 
jioles, 13-2 lines long, 1 line wide, thickened at the margin. Flowers 4-6 toge 
ther, not glutinous. appressed to the calyx, and half its length. Calyx 2 
ines long. Petals obtuse or apiculate, white, reddish underneath. Capsule equal- 
ling the calyx, obtuse, glandular. 
ee IL. Flowers on short peduncles ; pedunele shorter, or scarcely longer than the uppe 
most leaves. (Sp. 6-14). 
_8. A. cuspidata (Meyer—B. & W. 1. c. p. 87); erect, branching, 
rous or pubescent ; leaves alternate or opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, 
é, flat, thickish at the edge, punctate tical the lower erecto- 
nost densely imbricated ; flowers terminal, sub-capi- — 
pubescent, its oblong, acute lobes and the floral- 
rate-elliptical, apiculate, downy on both sides, 
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