Thesium.| OXX. SANTALACEA (BAKER AND HILL). 419 
obtuse, apex densely bearded. Filaments } lin. long; anthers }-} lin. 
long. Style slender, exceeding the anthers in length, ? lin. long. 
Fruit globose, longitudinal ribs prominent with reticulate cross veins. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Gambos, Newton, 165! 
14, T. multiramulosum, Pilger in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 57. Stems 
numerous, 15~20 in. high, erect, with primary and secondary branchlets ; 
branches and branchlets erect-spreading, distant. Leaves distant, 
basal small, lanceolate-linear, scale-like, upper leaves larger, elongate- 
Subulate, 5—7 lin. long. Cymes few-flowered distant, collected into 
narrow elongate panicles; bracts subulate, 1-1} lin. long, partly ad- 
nate to the peduncles; bracteoles shorter than the flowers. Perianth 
cyathiform; lobes rectangular-oblong, obtuse, about 2 lin. long, slightly 
hooded, hairy at the apex and margins. Filaments filiform, 4-3 lin. 
long ; anthers ellipsoid, }-} lin. long. Style reaching to the base of the 
perianth-lobes, } lin. long. 
Mozamb,. Distr. Rhodesia: Tree-steppe, near Umtali, 3900 ft., Engler, 
31388! 3146! Nyasaland: Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 47! Mandala, Scott- 
Elliot, 8446 ! Mungazi, Kirk / between Blantyre aud Matope, 2500 ft., Scott / 
15. T. gracile, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 185. Subshrub 
with several erect stems much branched above to form slender bushes 
> in.-1 ft. high; stems and branches angled and deeply grooved. 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, with colourless acute tip, keeled, 
4-4 in. long, spreading. Inflorescences paniculate, compact, terminal ; 
flowers white, shortly stalked, arranged in axillary 3- or more-flowered 
cymes; bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, concave, keeled, adnate about 
1 lin., 4-5 lin. long; bracteoles 2, rather fleshy, 1 lin. long. Perianth 
yellow, 3-3 lin. long, globose, with erect lobes; lobes } lin. long, ovate- 
deltoid, hooded with a beard of few stout hairs, Filaments and anthers 
Searcely } lin. long. Style }-} lin. long. Fruit globose, 1 lin. in diam., 
ribs and reticulations well shown. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland; Umswirizwi flats, 
1100 ft., Swynnerton, 310! Mozambique: Zonoe Manica, 2500 ft., Johnson, 
255! British Central Africa: Rhodesia; Sebakwe, 4000 ft., Hyles, 85! 
ly gs resedoides, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 187, Herb 
or subshrub, perennial, forming low bushes; rootstock woody; stems 
erect, 6-8 in. high, bearing spreading branches 2-4 in. long, angled and 
8rooved, Leaves distant, spreading, 3-4 lin. long, subulate, acute, 
With colourless tips. Inflorescences in simple or compound spikes or 
racemes ; flowers either single and sessile in the axils of bracts or borne 
in short 3-flowered axillary cymes; bracts lanceolate, acute, equal in 
length or 3 as long again as flower, sessile on axis or adnate to the 
peduncle ; bracteoles springing from the bract-axil, shorter than the 
Ower. Perianth white, about 1} lin. long; lobes elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 
# lin, long, apex hooded and with upper part of margin densely bearded. 
Filaments x lin. long; anthers about } lin. long. Style % lin. long. 
Fruit ovoid, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, immature, ribs obscure.— Thesium 
