Thesium. | OXX. SANTALACEH (BAKER AND HILL). 431 
51. T. lopollense, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 937. A perennial 
herb; rootstock rather thick, woody ; stems numerous, spreading, 2-8 in, 
long, much-branched. Leaves scale-like, subulate or lanceolate-subulate, 
acute or acuminate, concave, about 1 lin. long, Flowers terminating 
the branches of short axillary leafy shoots; bracteoles 4 or 5, broadly 
ovate, acuminate, ciliolate, 1 lin. long, forming a small involucre to the 
flower. Perianth cylindrical, 14 lin. long; lobes } lin. long, lanceolate, 
obtuse with an incurved apiculus, margins slightly incurved, papillose. 
Anthers } lin. long; filaments} lin. long. Style } lin. long; stigma 
capitate. Fruit ovoid, 14 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, 5 primary ribs 
prominent, the 5 intermediate ones and the transverse reticulations well 
developed. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in pastures near Lopollo, among the 
bushes, &c., Welwitsch, 6437 ! 
52. 'T. tamariscinum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 188. 
Undershrub, perennial (2); stems glabrous, slender above, flexuose, 
prostrate or suberect, 8 in. to 14 ft. long, grooved, much-branched ; 
vegetative branches more or less filiform. Leaves reduced to ovate 
acute scales, $ lin. or less long, distant. Flowers solitary at the ends of 
short leafy branches, }-14 in. long, with a small involucre of ovate 
acute or acuminate bracteoles about 3 lin. long. Perianth ? lin. long ; 
lobes 4 lin. long, narrowly ovate, hooded, margins inflexed, minutely 
ciliolate towards the base. ' Anthers and filaments } lin. long. Style 
4 lin. long; stigma capitate. Fruit globose-ovoid, about 1 lin. long, 
with 5 main ribs and intermediate reticulations. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Kondowe and 
Karongu, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Nyika plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 168! 
2. OSYRIDICARPOS, A.DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 222. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth adnate to the ovary and pro- 
duced above into a cylindrical tube ; lobes 5, valvate, with a tuft of hairs 
on the face. Stamens 5, inserted below the lobes; filaments short, 
slender ; anthers ovoid, with 2 parallel cells dehiscing longitudinally. 
Disk indistinct. Ovary inferior; ovules 2-3, pendulous from the tip 
of a flexuose filiform central placenta; stigma obscurely lobed. Drupe 
globose, crowned with the persistent perianth.—Undershrubs, with long 
slender sarmentose suleate branchlets. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 
oblong or lanceolate, triplinerved. Flowers in terminal racemes pro- 
duced down into the axils of the leaves, small, green ; bracteoles minute. 
Species 5, the other in South Africa, all very closely allied to one another. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate. 
Lobes of the perianth 3-1 the length of the tube . 1. O. schimperianus. 
Lobes of the perianth } the length of the tube. 
Leaves pubescent, 4—3 in. long . : j 2. O. scandens. 
Leaves glabrous, 1-2 in. long 3. O. Kirkit. 
Leaves linear 4, O. linearifolius. 
