Thesium. | CXX. SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). 415 
1. T. Schlechteri, A. W. Hill. Subshrub with thick rhizome. 
Stems numerous, suberect or prostrate, branching above, 8-12 in. long, 
deeply grooved, ribs numerous, acute, papillose-pilose on the edges. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4-5 lin. Jong, acute, keeled, membranous, 
margins and keel densely papillose-pilose. Flowers sessile, solitary in 
axils of leafy bracts; bracteoles 2, 2 lin. long. Perianth cylindric, 
2? lin. long; lobes 12 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, hooded with decurrent 
apical beard, margins membranous, papillose. Filaments 2 lin. long; 
anthers 4 lin. long. Style 1 lin. long. Fruit ovoid, 1} lin. long, 
glabrous, with 10 prominent ribs.—7’. longirostre, Schlechter ex A. W. 
Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 186, not in Journ. Bot. 1897, 345. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Auas Mountains, near Wind- 
hoek, Dinter, 1504! 
2. T. megalocarpum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 341. 
Subshrub, 1 ft. or more high; stems numerous, branched, woody and 
covered with bark below, grooved and more or less quadrangular above, 
glabrous ; branches erect, slender, grooved, leafy, 4-10 in. long. Leaves 
about 4 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, keeled, erect or slightly curved, 
margins minutely serrulate. Inflorescences lax, terminating the leafy 
branches, Flowers stipitate in the axils of bracts or on short pedicels 
to which the bracts are adnate ; bracts longer than the flower, 4-5 lin. 
long, linear-lanceolate, acute, sharply keeled, margins minutely serru- 
late ; bracteoles 2, slightly shorter than the flowers, similar to the bracts. 
Perianth 14 lin, long; lobes 2 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute, hooded, 
apex and margins bearded. Filaments + lin. long; anthers } lin. long. 
Style stout, $ lin. long. Fruit globose-ovoid, 2-2} lin. long, 14-1? lin. 
broad, 10-ribbed, ribs and reticulations conspicuous ; fruit-stalk swollen, 
1} lin. long. 
_ Gower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Waterbergplaat,. 
Dinter, 5851 Otavi, Dinter, 726! Grootfontein, Dinter, 912! 
3, 'T. radicans, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 235, 
Herb, annual? with elongated tap root and short prostrate stems. Stems 
~2 in, long, slightly hispid, much branched ; branches crowded with. 
leaves, Leaves narrowly elliptic, acute, 23-3} lin. long, hispid, 
minutely papillose along the margins. Flowers in axils of bracts on 
short free peduncles ; bracts about equal in length to flowers ; bracteoles 
#-1 lin. long. Perianth } lin. long; lobes about } lin. long, hooded 
with a few apical hairs, elliptic-ovate, subacute. Anthers } lin. long, 
equal in length to filaments. Style } lin. long. Fruit ovoid, 1} lin. 
long, 1-1} lin, broad, smooth, ribs slight, reticulations not seen.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsf, Trop. Afr. 200. 
Al Wile Gand. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, 7200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 795! 
*yssinia; in meadows near the Maitra stream, west of Dagaber Church, 10500 ft., 
Schimper, 168! Urahut Province, Schimper, 609! Intjatkab, Schimper, 1130. 
Sh é. TF. whyteanum, Rendle in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 42. 
rub, glabrous; branches slender, subere+t, 12 in. long, leafless below, 
