430 ’ OXX. SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). | Zhestum. 
smooth, 3-} lin, long. Anthers } lin. long; filaments about } lin. long. 
Style slender, 4 lin. long; stigma small, capitate. Fruit small, globose- 
ovoid, 1 lin. long, longitudinal ribs rather thick but little prominent, 
transverse scarcely conspicuous. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Dolo, Schlechter, 12454! 
48. T. equisetoides, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
937. A perennial herb, minutely puberulous, nearly glabrescent ; 
rootstock thick, woody, with numerous prostrate stems; stems much 
branched, slender, whip-like. Leaves of the main stems elongate, linear, 
acute or acuminate, fleshy, 4-3 in. long, curved; leaves of the branches 
subulate, acute, about 1 lin. long. Flowers at the ends of elongated 
slender branches with an involucre of subulate acuminate bracteoles. 
Perianth 1} lin. long, cylindrical; lobes ? lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse, 
glabrous, with apex and membranous margins narrowly inflexed. 
Anthers about $ lin. long. Style 1 lin. long. Fruit ovoid, 1} lin, long, 
} lin. broad, with ribs and transverse reticulations fairly prominent. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in sandy wooded places near 
Cazella and bank of River Catele, Welwitsch, 6433 ! 
49. T. myriocladum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910,18¢. Stems 
short, rigid, woody, much branched from the base, with numerous short 
spreading glabrous final branchlets 1-3 lin. long. Leaves reduced to 
lanceolate acuminate scales about 3 lin. long. Flowers usually solitary 
at the ends of the final branchlets ; bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 4 lin. long, forming an involucre at the base of the 
flower, margin minutely ciliolate or subglabrous. Perianth 1 lin. long; 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, glabrous, hooded, with inflexed margins. 
Anthers } lin. long. Style 3 lin. long. Fruit not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Batoka highlands, Kirk ! 
The whole plant is blackish-brown when dried. 
50. T. atrum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 182. A perennial 
undershrub ; rootstock woody ; stems numerous, prostrate, stout, woody ’ 
1 ft. or more long, with ascending branches, becoming black when dried, 
all younger parts green when fresh ; branches 4-6 in. long, with numerous 
long and short lateral branches. Leaves scale-like, orbicular-ovate, sub- 
acute, } lin. long, fleshy, margins minntely ciliolate. Flowers terminating 
short leafy axillary branches; bracts and bracteoles orbicular-ovate, 
apiculate, minutely ciliclate, about 4 lin. long, forming an involucre. 
Perianth white, § lin. long; lobes } lin. long, ovate, subacute, glabrous, 
slightly hooded, margins membranous, slightly papillose. Anthers and 
‘filaments } lin. long. Style $ lin. long. Fruit black when dry, globose- 
ovoid, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ribs and veins not prominent. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Suassingua, Gossweiler, 2713 ! 
A distinct species, resembling 7. doloense, Pilger, in turning black on drying; 
but distinguished by the small orbicular-ovate leaves and bracts with ciliolate 
margins. 
