Passerina,] thymel^eace.e (Wriglit). 1 1 



ovate, cuspidate, 2^ lin. long, IJ lin. wide, glabrous outside, very 

 woolly within, midrib prominent on the back; calyx-tube about as 

 long as the bract, ovoid and nearly glabrous below, slender, cylin- 

 drical and clothed with patent white hairs in the upper half ; lobes 

 patent, elliptical, rounded at the apex, H lin- long, not quite half 

 as broad, glabrous ; stamens exserted ; anther-cells diverging below ; 

 ovary elliptic, compressed ; style filiform, about as long as the 

 stamens. TfmnK Prodr, 75, and FL Cap, ed, SchulL 374 ; WendL 

 BeobacJiL 18, /. 2,Jirj. 15 ; Wilkl Sp. PL il 429 ; Pair. Ennjcl. v, 40 ; 

 WiJiStr, in Vet, Acad. HandL Stockh. 1818, 324 ; Meisn. in TJnnseaj 

 xiv. 399, and in DC. Prodr, xiv. 562 ; Bolm dt Wollaj-Dud in 

 Trans. S. Afr. PhiL Soc, xiv. 315, parti \j. 



South Africa : without locality, Sieher, 74 ! Pappe ! Forster ! Forsyth [ Thoui, 

 553! 577! Zet/herl Mandl Harvey, 642! 6921 Hooker \ M'dkrl Talbot I 

 Lauhner] 



Coast Regiox : Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountains, Drege ! Paarl, Bolus, 2924 ! 

 Cape Div. ; hills and flats near Cape Town, Burchell, 66! 276! 473! Ecldon, 

 508 \lBohts, 2925 ! Wilms^ 3590 ! Wolley-Dod, 3103 ! Mand and Malre I Wright I 

 Swellendam Div. ; Swellendam, Burhey 45 ! Riversdale Div. ; Great Valsch 

 River, Burckell, 6544 ! Mossei Bay Div. ; between the landing place at Mossel 

 Bay and Cape St. Blaize, Burchell, 6267 ! Attaques Kloof, Gdl ! Hnmansdorp 

 Div. ; Diep River, near Humansdorp, Bolus, 2440 ! Port Ehzabeth Div. ; Port 

 Elizabeth, drift sands, Sim, 20 ! Bathurst Div. ; Port Alfred, Hutton, 302 ! 

 Albany Div. ; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 103 ! Zw.irtwater 

 Poort, Burchelly 3419! and without precise localitv, Zeyher, 72! King Willi^ims- 

 town Div. ; Mount Coke, 1000 ft., Sim, 1380 ! 



Central Rkgiox: Clanwilliam Div. ; AVupperthal, Baron Th, von Wurmh. 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand ; Modderfontein Berg, 4000-5000 ft., 

 Drege . 



Eastj- RN Region : Tembuland ; Equtyeni, near All Saints, Baur, 1162 ! Natal ; 

 Inanda, Wood, 1182! Van Reenan, 5000 ft., Wood, 6601 I and without precise 

 locality, Gerrard, 1478! Sutherland \ 



4. P. comosa (C. H. Wright) j stem terete, pilose when young ;. 

 leaves 4-rankedj closely adpresseJ, almost straightj more or less 

 convex on the back, subobtuse, pilose (especially when joung) in 

 the upper part, about 2 lin. long and ^- lin. thick ; spikes terminal ; 

 bracts ovate, obtuse, H lin. long, densely pilose; calyx 2 lin. long, 

 pilose outside ; tube ovoid below, shortly cylindrical above ; lobes 4, 



obovate, 1^- lin. long, f lin. wide, obtuse; stamens exserted; fila- 



ments filiform, I lin. long, the alternate 1^ lin. long. P, fiUformisy 

 far, comosa^ Meisn. in Lhmvpa^ xiv. 399, and in DO. Prodr. xiv. 

 562. 



Western Regiox: Little Xamaqualand ; Kamiesberg Range, Drege, 2570 ! 



5, P. laniflora (C. H. Wright) ; a woody plant with numerous 

 short branches, pilose at their tips ; leaves strictly 4-ranked, oblong, 

 slightly incurved, 2 lin. long, I lin. wide, obtuse, glabrous ; flowers 

 clustered at the end of the branches; bracts ovate, 1| lin. long; 

 bracteoles 2, thickly triquetrous, 1^ lin. long: calyx densely woolly 

 all over; tube subcylindrical, 1^ lin. long: lobes 4, broadly ovate, 



