Arthroisokn^ thvmel.-eace^ (Wright). 7 



xiv. 559. Gnklia spicatay Gilg in Engh d PrantJ, Pjlanzenfam, iii. 



6 A, 228. 



South Africa: without locality, Skhcr, 63! Forsterl Bnrkc. 180 1 Armstrona, 

 189! 



Coast Region; Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, BiircheU, 8393! Miind, 61 near 

 Durban Road, MacOivan & Bolus^ Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr.^ 250! Vjgeskraal 

 River, WoUey-Dod, 331 ! Muizenberg Vley, Wolley-Dod, 923 ! Flats near Doom 

 Hoogte, Wolley-Dod, 615! e>aud dune??, Bolus, 3698! Pearl Div. ; Klein Draken- 

 steia Mountaios and Dal Josaphat, under 1000 ft., Dregel Stellenboscli Div. ; 

 between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8350 1 Bredasdorp Div. ; foot of 

 Pot Berg, Muiid, IS I limestone hills between Cape Agulhas and Pot Berg, Drege. 

 Elira, Schlechter, 7729 ! Swellendani Div. ; between Buffeljagts River Drift and 

 Swellendam, Burcliell, 7291 ! 



6, A. fraternus (X. E. Br. In Kew Bulletin, 1901, 132); an 

 unclershrub 6—10 in. high ; branches many, slender, adpressed- 

 pilose ; leaves opposite, subsessile, narrowly lanceolate, 4-G lin. 

 long, 1—1^ lin, wide, flat, erect, glabrous ; spike 6-9 lin. long, laxly 

 6-10-flowered, ebracteate; calyx adprcssed-pilose outside ; tube 

 3| lin. long, very slender ; lobes -i, oblong, 1^ lin. long, | lin. wide, 

 obtuse, yellowish-purple at the tip ; stamens 8 ; achene about 2 lin. 

 long, narrowly ovoid, smooth, enclosed in the persistent membranous 

 base of the calyx. 



Coast Rkgion : Queenstown Div. ; Mountains near Queenstowuj 4000-5000 ft., 

 Galpin, 1771 ! 



7. A. laxus (C. A. Meyer in Bulb Phys.-Math. Acad. Petersb. i. 

 18i5, 359); a shrub, 2 ft. or more high, very much branched; 

 branches terete, pubescent to pilose ; leaves linear or oblong, 2—5 

 lin. long, ^-1 lin, wide, obtuse, pilose when young, finally glabrous 

 or with a terminal tuft of hairs ; flowers 4-8 in a terminal very 

 short spike ; bracts similar to the leaves or shghtly wider ; calyx 

 greenish-yellow, 3-4 lin. long, inflated below, very slender at the 

 centre, funnel-shaped above, pilose outside, circumscissile about the 

 middle ; lobes 4, about ^ lin. long, rounded ; anthers ^ lin. long ; 

 ovary ovoid ; achene Ih lin. long, pilose at the apex, transversely 

 rugose. ■ Bolus A WoUefj-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil, Soe. xiv. 315. 

 Passerina laxa, Linn, f. SiippL 22G; Wihstr. in Vet, Acad. HandL 

 StockL 1818, 346; WendJ. BoL BeohacJd, 20, /. % fig, 20; Tlmnh, 

 FL Cap. €d, ScJiult. 376; Lodd. Cab, L 755; Drege, Zicei Pjl. 

 Doctnneyde, 88; Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 396, and in DG, Prodr, xiv. 

 560. P. tenuijiora, WilhL Enum, RorL Berol i. 426; WlLstr, 

 he, 342; BartL in Linnsea, xiv. 403. Gnidia laxa, Gilg in Engh 

 rt Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iii. 6 A, 226. BhjtidosoUn laxus, Van 

 Tiegh. in Bull, Soc. But France, xl. 75, 1893. 



South Africa : without locality, Forster ! 



Coast Region: Cape Div.; near Capetown, 50 ft., Bolus, 3318! between 

 Cape Town and Table Mountain, Burchell, 19! Table Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., 

 Dregel Devils Mountain, near Rondebosch, 300 ft.. Bolus in Mac wan *!• Bolus, 

 Ilu-b. Norm. Audr.-Afr,, 3S0 1 Raapenberg Yley, WoJlaj^Dod, 2108 ! Signal HUl, 

 WoUey-Dod, 3087 I Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, 500 ft., SchlecJitev, 7799 ! 



