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3-5 parcels, connate at base, alternating with a few free sta- 
mens. Disk 3-5-fid or 0. Stigmas 3-5, obovate, fleshy, 
coloured or white, rarely terete. Capsules membranous, 3-5- 
angled, 3-5-celled, 3-5-valved, loculicidal; cells many-seeded. 
Seeds lenticular, smooth, shining.—Pharnaceum, #7. Cap. i. p. 
138 ; and Hypertelis, Fl. Cap.i. p. 144. 
Small, slender, half-shrubby plants or herbs, with setaceous, filiform or 
linear, rarely lanceolate leaves ; the cauline leaves alternate, the upper 
crowded in dense, brush-like tufts. Stipules conspicuous, either fimbriate 
or entire. Flowers in cymes or pseudo-umbels.—About 20 species, dis- 
persed. 
10. CHLANTHUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, semi-5-fid; the segments 
petaloid, obtuse. Petals 0. Stamens 5, inserted between the 
calyx-lobes, perigynous ; filaments short; anthers sagittate, 
erect, longer than the filaments. Disk 0. Stigmas 3, round- 
ish, fleshy. Capsules oblong, 3-angled, 3-celled, many-seeded, 
loculicidally 3-valved; valves septiferous. Seeds globose, 
subcompressed.— FU. Cap. i. p. 147. 
Glabrous annuals, with scape-like, 2-3-forked and racemoso-cymose 
stems, springing from a tuft of radical leaves. Leaves obovate oval or 
lanceolate. Stipules fimbriato-lacerate.—2 species, both Western. 
11. PSAMMOTROPHA, E. and Z. 
Calyx 5-parted; sepals ovate, coloured within and at the 
margin. Petals 0. Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals; 
anthers globose. Disk 0. Style very short; stigmas 3-5, 
fihform. Capsule 3-5-angled, subglobose, 3-5-celled, 3-5- 
valved, loculicidal ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds globose, granulated. 
— Fl. Cap. i. p. 146. 
Small undershrubs or perennial herbs, with or without stipules. Branches 
bent at the nodes, with whorled leaves; sometimes very much branched, 
and imbricated with crowded, rigid, 4-ranked leaves. Flowers minute, 
umbellate.—4: species, dispersed. 
12. ADENOGRAMMA, Rchb. 
Calyx 5-parted, ovoid or globose ; sepals coloured within 
and at the margin. Petals 0. Stamens 5, alternate with the 
sepals, connate at base into a membranous, hypogynous ring ; 
anthers ovoid, versatile. Ovary 1-celled, with a single ovule on 
an ascending cord; style simple; stigma capitate. Utricle 
indehiscent, conical, straight, compressed or lenticular, ob- 
liquely acuminate, smooth or papillated. Seed ovoid, with 
a membranous coat.—F7. Cap. 1. p. 149. 
Slender, rigid perennials or annuals, dichotomous, diffuse and glabrous. 
