106 Annals of the South African Museum. 



An acaulescent herb with swollen roots. Radical leaves - 9-l - 2 

 cm. long, 3 mm. broad, oblanceolate-elliptic or oblanceolate-linear, 

 covered with long glandular hairs ; upper leaves 4 - 5cm. long, 1 mm. 

 broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed at the base, on the lowest quarter 

 covered with short glandular hairs, otherwise covered with long 

 glandular hairs. Peduncle 5'5 cm. long, terete, covered with short 

 capitate glands. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes 3 - 5 mm. long, oblong, 

 obtuse, glandular with short capitate glands. Corolla segments 7 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad, ^obovate or almost orbicular, rounded above, 

 shortly narrowed at the base, glabrous, white. Stamens 5 ; anthers 

 1*5 mm. long; filaments 2 - 5 mm. long, linear. Ovary 2 mm. long, 

 elliptic, unilocular, with parietal placentation ; styles 6, free to the 

 base, branched above, stigmas capitate. 



This species approaches D. pauciflora, Banks, but differs in the 

 longer and narrower leaves and the white flowers. 



FICOIDEAE. 



Tetragonia saxatiiis, Phillips, sp. nov. Rami glabri. Folia 1*2- 

 2 - 5 cm. longa, 3-5 mm. lata, oblanceolata, apice obtusa, basi angus- 

 tata, glabra. Lobi calyci 2*5-3 mm. longi, ovato-elliptici, apice obtusi, 

 glandulosi. Stamina circa 12; filamenta 1*5 mm. longa; antherae 

 1 mm. longae. Ovarium 15 mm. longum, obovatum, 4-angulatum, 

 glandulosum ; stylus 2 - 5 mm. longus, cylindricus ; stigma laterale. 



Cape Region. Van Ehynsdorp Div. : Gift Berg Eange 1-2,000 ft. 

 Phillips 7500 in Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to the Khamies- 

 berg, Gift Berg, and Oliphant's Eiver Mountains, 1911. 



Branches glabrous ; the youngest branchlets sometimes covered 

 with ovate acute membranous scales. Leaves V 2-2-5 cm. long, 3-5 

 mm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 

 usually with membranous outgrowths on the narrowed portion. 

 Inflorescence racemose, 4-6 cm. long ; axis glandular. Floiccrs 

 solitary or 2-3-nate ; pedicels 4 mm. long, terete, glandular. Calyx 

 4-lobed ; lobes 2-5-3 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, glandular, 

 inflated on the inner surface. Stamens about 12 ; anthers 1 mm. 

 long, cylindric, versatile ; filaments 1-5 mm. long, filiform. Ovary 

 inferior, 1*5 mm. long, obovate in outline, 4-angled, glandular, one 

 locular with a single ovule ; style 2-5 mm. long, cylindric; stigmatic 

 surface lateral running the length of the style. 



The fruit of this species has not been seen ; the species is closely 

 allied to T. spicata, L. fil., but is distinguished by the less dense 

 inflorescence and the smaller flowers. 



