Thesium.| CXX. SANTALACEE (BAKER AND HILL). 425 
32. T. lineatum, Linn. f. Suppl. 162. Shrub about 4 ft. high; 
stems stiff, erect, branching above ; branches somewhat spreading, stiff, 
hard, deeply grooved with numerous ridges. Leaves linear, acute or 
apiculate, keeled, $ 1 in. long, leathery, narrowing into a very short 
hard persistent petiole. Flowers solitary, shortly pedicellate in the 
axils of leafy bracts; bracteoles 2, ? lin. long. Perianth green, 
urceolate, 1} lin. long; lobes ? lin. long, triangular-ovate, hooded, 
slightly fleshy. Filaments about 4 lin. long; anthers }lin. long. Style 
+ lin. long. Fruit ovoid, } in. long, 2 lin. broad, with longitudinal 
grooves and slight ribs—E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
226; Thunb. Diss, Thesium, 5, aud FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 210 ; DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 654, partly. 7’. ephedroides, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 183. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Kubub Mountains, 5350 ft., 
Range, 65! Hereroland, Spitzkopje, Dinter, 64! 
Also in Great Namaqualand and South Africa. 
33. T. ussanguense, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 305.. Caudex 
thick ; stems numerous, erect, 43-6 in. long, acute-angled. Scale- 
leaves numerous, covering the base of the branches, }-} in. long; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, apex white, recurved, edges pallid 
and minutely ciliolate, 1} in. long, numerous; bracteoles similar to the 
leaves, shorter than the flowers, 1in. long. Perianth white, 4 in. long; 
lobes } in. long, equal in length to the tube, linear, obtuse, concave, 
pilose on margins and inner side, covering the stamens. Filaments 
1 lin. long; anthers oblong, #, in. long. Style slender, nearly equal in 
length to the perianth; stigma capitate. 
Mozamb. Distr. (German East Africa: Northern slopes of Lipanye, Kinga 
(Livingstone) Range, 7200 ft., Goetze, 1264! Karagwe ; Weranyange, 5000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 8149! Portuguese East Afriea: Namuli, in Makua Country, Last ! 
34. fenarium, A. W. Hilliin Kew Bulletin, 1910, 184. Herb 
or subshrub, perennial (?) ; rhizome slender, horizontal, bearing numerous 
erect stems; stems 8 in. to 1 ft. or more high, slender, wiry, much- 
branched, deeply grooved. Leaves near the base ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, keeled, 14-24 lin. long; upper leaves linear, acute, midrib well 
marked, keeled, 24 lin. long, spreading. Flowers sparsely produced 
either singly or in cymes on axillary peduncles; bracts like leaves, partly 
adnate to the peduncles; peduncles elongate, 24 lin. or more long; 
bracteoles about equal in length to the flower. Perianth 1} lin. long ; 
lobes 3 lin. long, ovate, subacute, with hairs at the margin near the base. 
Anthers and filaments each dlin. long. Style } lin. long. Fruit ovoid, 
1} lin. long, with 5 prominent and 5 smaller intermediate ribs, reticu- 
lations not conspicuous. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 104! 1357, 
partly! Mount Sotchi, Scott-Elliot, 8541 ! 
35. T. cymosum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 183. Herb, 
perennial, about 6 in. high, with horizontal underground rhizome ; stems 
erect, few, simple below, branching above to form a compact more or less 
