50 



Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2, Nr. 8. 



1. Frankenia pauciflora D. C. Prodr. I (1824) 350; Curtis, 

 Botan. Magaz. tab. 2896; Benth., Fl. Austr. I (1863) 151; maxima 

 ex parte. 



The specimens from the coastal region are decumbent shrubs 

 with internodes several times longer than the leaves. Stems 



Fig. 15. Frankenia serpyllifolia Lindl., from W. A. 

 (Herb. Berol., ded. F. v. Muller). (17 2 nat. size). 



glabrous or, especially the younger, somewhat pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong or linear, obtuse, revolute, glabrous, distinctly petiolate, 

 8 — 10mm long; sheaths ciliate. Flowers in leafy dichotomous 

 cymes. Corolla pink. Several ovules on each of the three parietal 

 placentas (I have counted 21 — 24 ovules in the ovary). 



