94 THE SAND STRAND FLORA 



Commou on sea coasts of South Africa. Also on the coasts of 

 Southern Europe, Canary Islands, California and Australia (South and 

 West Australia). 



M. edule L. 



Stems stout, spreading, prostrate, angular. Leaves opposite, fleshy, 

 7 cm. long, shortly connate at base, linear, triquetrous, concave above; 

 keel serrulate. 



Coast of South Africa, whence introduced into many countries as a 

 sandstay and then naturalized, f. i. on I^orth Island of New Zealand. 



Tetragonia expansa Murray 



Succulent perennial, branched, erect or prostrate, 3 — 6 dm. high, 

 glabrous, papillose; leaves alternate, plane, rhomboid-ovate, 4 — 5 nerved 

 beneath, 2 — 8 cm. long, abruptly narrowed into a broad petiole, entire, 

 acute or obtuse; flowers small, yellow; fruit angular with 2 — i spines. 



On coast of Australia, New Zealand, and adjoining islands, Japan, 

 Polynesia, temperate South America and California (Pacific Grove and 

 shores of S'an Francisco Bay). 



T. irigyna Banks & Sol. 

 Stems sufEruticose, 2 — 15 dm. long, almost trailing and climbing; 

 leaves alternate, broadly ovate, abruptly narrowed into the petiole, 

 papillose. 



Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and adjoining islands. 

 A number of species of this genus occur on the sandy sea shores of 

 South Africa. 



UMBELLIFERAE. 

 Angelica litoralis Fries. 

 Perennial, 1 — 2 m. high, 2 — 3 ternately divided; leaflets ovate, 

 acute, serrate; petioles thick, the upper ones much inflated; flowers 

 greenish-yellow. 



Occurs on gravelly and stony shores of the Baltic. 



A. rosaefolia Hook. 

 Suffruticose plant, chiefly littoral in New Zealand (Kirk: Student's 

 Flora of New Zealand). 



Apmm prostratum Labill. 

 Boot stout; stems prostrate, 15 — 60 cm. long, stout, grooved; leaves 

 2 — 3 pinnate; leaflets sessile; obovate, narrow-linear, membraneous. 



