ADENOGRAMMA MollugoReichb. [family ], Icon. Bot. Exot. 2. 3. t. 109;—Fenzl, l. c. p. 278. E. & Z.! No. 1812. Sieb. Fl. Cap. No. 261.
Information
leaves linear-subulate or filiform; flowers of the umbellules pedicellate, mixed with a few sessile ones; sepals deciduous in fruit; capsule globose at base, depressed, produced into a long, straightish, two-edged beak, once and a-half longer, black, shining, granulate on the disc, and margined with raised, golden-yellow papillæ. A slender plant; in habit, ramification and leaves closely resembling the last species, but smaller (2–4 inches long) more rigid, with fewer leaves; the upper ones smaller. Leaves either pointless or mucronate. Flowers in size, disposition and colour as in the preceding. Sepals oblong, obtuse, white-edged. Capsule black and shining, nearly 1 line long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sandy places in the Cape districts, as at Green Point and Muysenberg, E. & Z.! River Zonderende, Swell., Sieber, E. & Z. Zwartland, Drege! (Herb. Sond.).
