426 CXX. SANTALACEE (BAKER AND HILL). [ Thesiwnr. 
corymbose plant, 4-angled, strongly ribbed. Leaves at the base reduced 
to scales, above narrowly-elliptic, acute, with a prominent midrib, 23-3 
lin. long. Flowers either single or in 3-flowered cymes in the axils of 
leafy bracts forming short simple or compound inflorescences at the ends 
of branches ; bracts partly adnate to the pedicels, 1} lin. long ; bracteoles 
2,14 lin. long, shorter than the flowers. Perianth 1}-1} lin. long; 
lobes 14 lin. long, ovate-deltoid, hooded, glabrous or minutely ciliolate 
on margins. Filaments and anthers about 3 lin. long. Style }-{ lin. 
long. Fruit ovoid, about 1} lin. long, with 5 definite ribs and con- 
spicuous reticulations. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near the foot of 
Tshiradzura (Chiradzulu) Mountain, Kirk! top of Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 122 
Chikala, 2000 ft., Purves, 25! 
36. T. cinereum, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 182. Perennial 
herb, densely covered with hairs and ashen-grey in colour ; rootstock 
much branched ; stems procumbent, rounded, grooved, 6 in. to 1 ft. long, 
crowded with filiform axillary branches or peduncles; branches leafless, 
terminated by a flower and often bearing leafy branches from the axils 
of bracteoles, secondary leafy branches in the bract-axils also occur. 
Leaves subulate, acute, 1-24 lin. long, hairy on the back. Cymes 1-3- 
flowered, axillary; peduncles naked, 1-4 lin. long; flowers with an 
involucre of linear-subulate bracteoles. Perianth green outside and 
densely hairy, white inside, 1 lin. long; lobes 3-2 lin. long, margins 
membranous and with hairs near the base, margins and apex inflexed. 
Anthers about } lin. long. Style 54, lin. long. Fruits globose-ovoid, 
about 1 lin. in diam., densely hairy, with well-marked vertical and 
transverse reticulations. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange District, near Saba Onatunga, in company 
of perennial Leguminose, Gossweiler, 1115! 
37. T. viride, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 238. Perennial; 
rootstock woody ; stems erect, branched or unbranched, 10-14 in. high, 
ciliate or glabrous below, glabrous or subglabrous above, grooved ; 
branches long vegetative or short flowering. Leaves subulate, acute, 
about 1 lin. long, adpressed, ciliate or subglabrous on the back. [nflor- 
escences irregular branched axillary cymes, usually borne on a long 
peduncle; bracts and bracteoles forming an involucre, ovate or subulate, 
apiculate or acuminate, }-3 lin. long. Perianth 1-1} lin. long, brownish- 
white (Ledermann); lobes 3 lin. long, narrowly ovate, hooded, slightly 
hairy at the margins, margins more or less fused together above. Anthers 
and filaments 4 lin.long. Style about % lin. long. Fruit globose-ovoid, 
about 1 lin. long, with 10 ribs of equal size and transverse reticulations- 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Katagum District ; in dry bush, Daiziel, 
416! Cameroons: Sagdsche, Ledermann, 3742! 
38, T.fulvam, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 185. A sub- 
shrub, perennial (?), whole plant fuscous, covered with short hairs ; 
stems erect, grooved, 10-15 in. high, with numerous lateral branches 
