2541 MESSRS. T. A. SPRAGUE AND J. HUTCHINSON ON 
Engler, 3116! Laterite steppe, near Salisbury, 1500 m., Engler, 3082! 
Bechuanaland ; in sandy places, 1200 m., Marloth, 3327! Transvaal: Hout- 
bosch, Rehmann, 6316! 
A specimen collected by Baines in the “ South African Gold-fields ” appa- 
rently belongs to var. Rehmanni. The flowers have 25-32 stamens. 
гу. laxiflora, nob.— Т. laxiflora, Engl. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxix. (1907) 579. 
About 40 сш. high. Stems of one kind, bearing vegetative branches 
15-21 em. long below, and terminated by the inflorescence which is developed 
at the same time as the leaves. Young parts stellate-tomentellous or pubes- 
cent. Leaves linear-oblong, acute or apieulate at the apex, very gradually 
narrowed into the base, 5-8 em. long, A 9 mm. broad, serrulate except near 
the base, puberulous above and fulvous-tomentellous or pubescent below in a 
young state, finally glabrous above, sparingly pubescent or puberulous below 
especially on the nerves. Inflorescence laxly panicled ; pedicels as long as 
or longer than the flowers. Stamens 25-31. Ovary 2-4-celled. Immature 
fruit 178 em. in diameter including the bristles. 
Rhodesia : Mashonaland ; on stony steppes at Norton, near Salisbury, 
1500 m., Engler, 3025! between Broken Hill zinc-mine and Bwana M'cuba 
copper-mine, Allen, 290! 370! 
Sect. IV. LAPPULA, DC. sensu amplif. 
18. T. Dekindtiana, Engl. in Engl. Dot. Jahrb. xxxix. (1907) 580. 
T. Dekindtiana was originally described from fruiting material. А 
description of the flowers is now given. 
Сута pro nodo plures (usque ad 13), involucratæ, plerumque simplices, 
triflorze, 1-2 tantum compositze, multifloree ; pedunculi 5-8 mm. longi ; in- 
volucri bracteæ 5, 3-5 mm. longæ, minores subulat:e, majores lanceolatæ vel 
lineari-lanceolate. Sepala 1°5 mm. supra basin reflexa, linearia, 6-9 mm. 
longa, basi 1 mm. ceterum 0*5 mm. lata, extra tomentella, cornu 0*5 mm. 
longo vix infra apicem inserto. Petala oblongo-oblanceolata, apice rotundata 
vel retusa, 4-5 mm. longa, 1-15 mm. lata, basi per 0°75 mm. ciliata. 
Gonophorum 0:5-0:75 mm. longum, glandulis obovatis circiter 0-5 mm. 
longis. Discus 04 mm. longus, dense ciliatus, anthesi reflexus. Stamina 10; 
filamenta circiter 6 mm. longa. Ovarium depresso-globosum, circiter 1 mm. 
diametro, tomentellum, 4-loculare. Capsule sete 2:5-4 mm. longæ, dense 
stellato-pilosæ, apice 6-8-spinulatee. 
A bushy herb or undershrub, 0:3-1:5 m. high. Young stem tomentellous, 
afterwards scurfy-pubescent, more or less glabrescent towards the base, 
Leaves ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, tomentellous on both surfaces ; petioles 5-15 mm. long ; stipules 
2-5 mm. long. Capsule about 1 em. in diameter including the bristles, 
4-celled ; bristles plumose, with about 6-8 terminal spinules. 
