Tas. 7303. 
LASIOSIPHON ANTHYLLOIDES. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Toymunxacez. 
Genus Lastostrnon, Fresen.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. volw iii. p- 197.) 
LasiosirHon, anthylloides; caule ereeto folioso, foliis sessilibus patulis v. 
decurvis et revolutis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis utrinque subtus pracipue 
sericeo-villosis paucinerviis, supremis confertis suberectis apicibus recurvis 
involucrum campanulatum efficientibus, floribus umbellatis subsessilibus, 
perianthii tubo 1}-pollicari gracillimo sericeo-piloso involucro duplo 
longiore, limbi sulphurei lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis extus pilosis fance 
esquamato, antheris -linearibus, ovario oblongo basi angustato apice 
parce piloso. 
L. anthylloides, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 595. 
Passerina anthylloides, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 226. Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 
76; et Fl. Cap. p. 377. Wikstr. Fhymel. p. 347. Meissn. in Linnea, vol. 
xiv. p. 392, e¢ in Hook. Lond, Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 551, sphalm. 
451. 
Dais sericea, Lamk. Dict. vol. ii. p. 767. | 
D. anthylloides, Eckl. & Zey. Herb. n. 3765, 35. 
Arthrosolen anthylloides, OC. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. iv. n. 4, 
Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. p. 2. 
Gnidia tomentosa, Eckl. in Herb. (non alior.). 
The natural Order Thymeleacee abounds in South 
Africa, where it is represented by many chiefly endemic 
genera ; to this, however, Lasiosiphon forms an exception, 
for to about twenty endemic African and Madagascar 
Species, there is added a continental Indian one, the L. 
ertocephalus, Decne, which under seven specific names ex- 
tends from the North Western Himalaya to Ceylon and 
Malacca. The African species are small shrubs with a 
good deal of the habit of the Australian genus Pimelea, 
as the species here figured shows. It, however, differs 
Widely from Pimelea in the five-lobed perianth and ten 
Stamens. JL. anthylloides is a very variable plant in size, 
in the stout or slender branches, in the direction of the 
lanceolate to oblong leaves, and in their silky hairiness. 
Juty Isr, 1893, 
