Lineonia.| BRUNIACE (Sond.) 317 
Has. Koude Bockevelde, Thunberg, Ekeberg. (Herb. Berg. & Thunb.) 
1-2 feet high. Branches terete, mostly trichotomous, glabrous, younger ones hir- 
sute. Leaves with a black, incurved mucro, ciliate, glabrous above, 3-3 lines long, 
14 line wide. Spike leafy, ovate. Flowers rose-coloured, rather longer than the 
leaves. Bracteze ciliate, 1 line long, } line wide, membranaceous at the margins 
and with a:pubescent carina. Calyx-segments adpressed to the corolla, imbricate, 
ciliate, about 1 line long. Corolla glabrous, 3-4 lines, limb about 1 line long. Sta- 
mens not longer than the tube ; anthers oblong, yellow. Style 1 line long. 
2. L. acutiflorum (Wickstr.! 1. c.t. 10, f. 1); leaves ovate, hairy 
beneath, or glabrescent, bractes cuneiform; calyx-segments lanceolate, 
acute ; limb of the corolla ovate-lanceolate, acute ; styles 2, filiform, ex- 
serted. DC. Prod. 
Has. Cape, Dr. Hornstedt. (Herb. Berg. & Swartz.) 
Near the preceding, distinguished by larger leaves and flowers. Leaves ovate, 
upper ones ovate-lanceolate, bluntish, with a short, black mucro, the older glabrate, 
5-6 lines long, 2~3 lines wide. Spike foliaceous, terminal, headlike ; flowers longer 
than the leaves, rose-coloured. Bractew about 14 line long, } line wide. Calyx- 
segments 3 lines long. Corolla 6—7 lines, limb about 2 lines long. Stamens a little 
exceeding the mouth, filaments 4 line long ; anthers linear. Styles as long as the 
corolla, pubescent at base. 
3. L. monostylis (Sond.) ; leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, hir- 
sute beneath, or glabrescent ; bractese linear-setaceous ; calyx-segments 
linear-lanceolate ; limb of the corolla ovate-lanceolate, acute ; style 1, 
short. Gravenhorstia fastigiata, Nees. Esenb.! in Herb. E. § 4. Lonchost. 
acutiflorum, E. § Z.! No. 1084, non Wickstroem. Peliotes detrita, E. Mey. 
in Herb. Drege. ; 
Has. Mountain sides in Hottentottsholland near Palmietrivier, FE. ¢ 2. § Pappe. 
Dutoitskloof, 2~3000f., Drege. Oct.—Jan. (Herb. D., Sd., &e.) 
A small, greyish-villous half-shrub, 1-2 feet high, often much-branched, branches 
3-chotomous or whorled. ‘Leaves about 3 lines long, 1 line wide, the upper ones 
smaller, 5-farious-imbricate, with a black mucro. Spike about 4 inch long. Flowers 
exceeding the leaves. Bractes pubescent, 2 lines, calyx-segments about 3 lines long. 
Corolla smooth, 4 lines long. limb convolute, as long as the tube. Anthers oblong. 
Ovary with 4 ovules. Style about 1 line long ; stigma sublobed. Fruit about 
1 line long, crowned by the calyx. Very like L. obtusiflorum. 
V. LINCONIA, L. 
Calyx adhering to the ovary, with a 5-cleft limb; segments short, 
membranaceous, smooth. Petals oblong, convolute, inclosing the 
stamens ; cells of anthers diverging at the base ; connective of anthers 
with a conical appendage at the top. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled, cells 
2-seeded. Styles 2. Fruit bicoccous. Swartz. in Berl. Mag. 1810, p. 85. 
Brogn. 1. . p. 26. Endl. Gen. No. 4601. 
Heathlike shrubs with numerous, erect, fastigiate branches. ‘Leaves spirally in- 
serted on all sides of the branches, spreading or loosely imbricate, on very short 
stalks, coriaceous, quite smooth, or a little fringed on the margins, marked with a 
prominent nerve, ustulate at the apex. Flowers axillary, in the axils of the upper 
leaves, the whole forming a crowded, leafy spike, each flower involucrated by 4 or § 
bractex, which are about the length of the calyx. Name in memory of some for- 
gotten person ! ae 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. = ae 
Lvs. linear, rough-edged. Flowers rather longer than the lvs. ... 1) alopecuro 
Lys. oblong, or linear-oblong, smooth-edged. FI. as long as lvs. epee 
Lvs, ovate-oblong, rough-edged. FI. rather longer than leaves’ (3) thymifolia. 
