Thesium. | CXX, SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). 417 
bracteoles 2, 24-4 lin. long. Perianth } lin. long; lobes deltoid, more 
or less $ lin. long, hooded with a few decurrent apical hairs. Anthers 
about 4-+ lin. long. Style } lin. Jong. Fruit globose or globose- 
ovoid, about 1 lin, in diam., with 5 main ribs and: 5 intermediate 
usually bifurcating shortly above the base, reticulation well marked.— 
T. Schweinfurthii, Engl., var. djurense, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 168, 
partly. 
Nile Land. Jur: by the Molmul River, Schweinfurth, 1909! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba and vicinity, 
2500-3500  ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 1357 partly ! 
8. T. dissitum, V. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 137. Herb with 
erect leafy stems, 6 in. high, glabrous, branched above; branches 
short, erect. Leaves 4-2 in. long, narrowly linear, acute, keeled, 
incurved, erect. Inflorescence terminal, short, few-flowered, composed 
of 1-3-flowered cymes; cymes pedunculate, with adnate bracts; free 
portion of bracts 4-5 lin. long; bracteoles 2, 2 lin. long; flowers sessile, 
brownish-yellow. Perianth 1 lin. long; lobes 8 lin. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, slightly hooded with a small tuft of apical hairs. 
Filaments } lin, long; anthers } lin. long. Style } lin. long. Fruit 
not seen, 
Mozamb. Distr. Bechuanaland: in the Kalahari desert near Mamunwe, 
Lugard, 239! 
9. T. mukense, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 186. Subshrub 
16-20 in, high ; stems numerous, erect, stout, much-branched ; branches 
ascending, 5-7 in. long, deeply grooved. Leaves numerous, caducous on 
the older portions, 3-1} in. long, linear, acute, more or less erect. In- 
florescences few-flowered, forming short terminal racemes ; flowers borne 
in axils of bracts with the peduncle partly adnate to the surface of the 
bract; bract leafy, 2-3 lin. long, longer than the flower; bracteoles 2, 
equal in length to or shorter than the flower. Perianth 1-1} lin. long, 
urceolate ; lobes 4-? lin. long, ovate-deltoid, subacute, hooded and 
with a dense tuft of hairs’at the apex and upper part of margins. 
Filaments about } lin. long; anthers } lin. long, with a tuft of hairs 
behind, slightly pendulous. Style } lin. long. Fruits not seen. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Muka, Kassner, 943! Ukamba, 5000-6000 
ft., Scott-Elliot, 6407! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 45! 
10. T. palliolatum, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 187. 
Herb 8 in. high, sparingly branched above ; stems deeply grooved, lax. 
Leaves linear, strap-shaped or concave with distinct midrib, 4-6 lin. 
long, acute. Flowers shortly pedicellate, arranged singly or in 3-flowered 
¢ymes in the axils of leafy bracts, forming lax terminal inflorescences ; 
racts linear, concave, acute, 4 lin. long, adnate to the peduncle for 
about } its length ; bracteoles 2, 1} lin. long. Perianth 1} lin. long, 
“ampanulate ; lobes ? lin. long, with elongated hooded apex about } lin. 
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