424 CXX. SANTALACEZ (BAKER AND HILL). | Thesiwm. 
29. 'T. seabridulum, 4. W. Hill. Subshrub about 6 in. high; 
lower branches straggling and spreading, upper ascending, grooved, 
scabrous. Leaves on the older branches distant, 44-7 lin. long, on the 
younger branches numerous, 33-5 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
keeled, scabrous. Inflorescence racemose ; flowers solitary in the axils 
of the bracts; bracts leafy, partly adnate to the pedicels, about 3 lin. 
long ; bracteoles 2, equal in length to or slightly longer than the flowers. 
Perianth yellowish (Swynnerton), 12 lin. long, smooth; lobes 3 lin. long, 
narrowly ovate-lanceolate, slightly hooded, margins undulate, inflexed. 
Anthers and filaments of equal length, } lin. long. Style # lin. Jong, 
exceeding the anthers. Fruit immature, ovoid, with inconspicuous 
reticulations, 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Melsetter, 6000 ft., Swynnerton, 2124! 
“A large straggling herb with small yellowish flowers” (Swynnerton). 
30. T. kilimandscharicum, Lngl. in Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. 
Wiss. ii. (1891), 200. Herb or subshrub, perennial (?) with tap root; 
stems numerous, decumbent or more or less erect, 4—10 in. long, forming 
a densely branched undershrub; branches densely leafy. Leaves 2}- 
3% lin. long, linear, cartilaginous, acute, concave, more or less curved. 
Flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate, borne on compressed 3-flowered 
cymes on short leafy branches in the axils of leafy bracts ; bracteoles 
rather longer than the flower. Perianth white or yellowish, about 4 lin. 
long, divided nearly to the base into lobes scarcely } lin. long, ovate, 
obtuse, glabrous. Anthers and filaments about ;}, lin. long, filaments 
inserted at the base of the perianth. Style } lin. long. Fruit orange 
when dry, shortly ovoid, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ribs and veins only 
slightly marked.—7’. rungwense, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 307. 
kilimandscharicum, var. erectum, Engl. in Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 
li. (1891), 200. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 9000-15000 ft., venom 
localities, Johnston, 27! 50! Meyer, 248! Uhlig, 195! Volkens, 952! 1821! 1871+ 
German Nyassaland; Rungwe Mountain, 9500 ft., Goetze, 1156! 
31. 'T. nigricans, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. ii. Bot. iv. 41. 
Low shrub, much-branched; branches slender, spreading. Leaves 
linear, plano-convex, mucronate, smooth, 4-} in. long, margins sub- 
scabrous. Flowers 4—5 in the axils of bracts or at ends of small leafy 
axillary branches, shortly pedicellate; axillary bract and two bracteoles 
similar to leaves; bracteoles about equal in length to the flowers or 
longer. Perianth campanulate, 3 lin. long; lobes 4-5, 4-4 lin. long; 
slightly spreading, elliptic, ovate, subacute, glabrous, apex inflexed. 
Anthers } lin. long; filaments slightly longer. Style 3 lin. long ; stigma 
capitate. Fruit ovoid, 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, with 8-10 ribsand a few 
oblique reticulations, 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: N yasaland ; Mount Milanji, 6000- 
9000 ft., Whyte, 42! McClounie, 39! Adamson, 335! 337! Zomba, Whyte. 
Turns black on drying. 
