Tas. 8001. 
GNIDITA potystacuya, 
South Africa, 
THYMELZACEM, Tribe EuTHYMELEHE. 
Guipia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 197; Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 6, A. p. 226. 
Gnidia polystachya, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. Bon. Spei, p. 123 (1767); Thunb. 
Fil. Cap. ed Schultes, p. 380; ex affinitate G. pinifoliex, Linn., a qua foliis 
floribusque brevioribus et petalis 8 glabris differt. 
Frutex 1-4-pedalis, ramis adpresse pubescentibus. Folia sexpe conferta, 
interdum sparsa, patentia vel subimbricata, 13-6 lin. longa, 4-3 lin. lata, 
linearia, acuta vel subobtusa, dorso carinata, glabra. Fores terminales, 
capitati, foliis sublatioribus involucrati. Calyw« flavus, extra interdum 
ruber, tenuiter pubescens; tubus 4-6 lin. longus, superne leviter infundi- 
buliformis ; lobi 1-1} lin. longi, $-1 lin. lati, ovati vel elliptico-oblongi, 
obtusi vel subacuti. Petala 8, ori tubi inserta, }-3 lin. longa, oblonga 
vel lineari-oblonga, apice obtusa, emarginata, breviter bifida vel oblique 
dentata, glabra, alba. Stamina 8, biseriata; filamenta brevissima; 
antherz lineari-oblonge, 4 superiores exseri@, 4 inferiores inclusz. 
Ovarium oblongum, apice pilosum; stylus oblique terminalis, filiformis, 
glaber, inclusus ; stigma capitatum, piliferum.—G@uidia carinata, Thunb. 
Prodr. p. 76 (1794) ; Meisner in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 588; G. pinifolia, 
Wendl. Beobacht. p. 15, t 2, f.11, non Linn. G. simpler, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. vol. i. +. 70. G. imberbis, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. 
(1811) p. 412; Bot. Mag. t. 1463; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1958. 
A figure of this pretty shrub was long ago published at 
t. 1463 of the Botanical Magazine, under the name of 
G. imberbis, but the form there depicted is so unlike the 
present one in habit, that it might be doubted if the two 
plates represented the same species. Upon examining the 
Kew material, however, I can find no specific distinction 
between them, the apparent difference being in habit only, 
due to variations in the mode of branching, of which I 
find three principal modifications: 1, with rather long, 
simple flowering branchlets; 2, shorter flowering branch- 
lets arranged in a corymbose manner, which appears to 
be the most common form of the plant; 3, the form here 
figured, with short flowering branchlets racemosely 
arranged, on much elongated growths. 
The last is very ornamental. Mr. Lynch writes that it 
is a very free-growing, densely branched shrub, five to 
Fesruary Ist, 1905. 
