12 TiiYMEL.i:ACE/E (Wright). " \Passerina. 



li lin. long, 1 Jin, wide, obtuse; filaments slender, the 4 lon<jer 

 half as long as the calyx-lobes ; appendages cylindrical, \ lin, long ; 

 Dvary ovoid ] style filiform, 2 lin. long ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast Kkgion : Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Rauge, Sneeuw Kop, ti500 ft., 

 Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9086 ! 



6. P, paleacea (Wikstr. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1818, 323) ; 

 a> much -branched shrub ; branches lax, with a thick covering of 

 wool at the apex, finally glabrous ; leaves linear, obtuse, trigonous, 

 1-li lin. long, adpressed, subimbricate, glabrous ; spikes short, 

 comose ; bracts scaly, coloured, imbricate, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 1^ lin. long and wide, convex and obtusely keeled on the back, 

 smooth, nerveless ; calyx glabrous ; tube as lung the bracts. Meisn, 

 in Linnsea^ xiv. 400, and in DG. Prodr. xiv. 562. P. gaholu'folia, 

 Lam. Encyd, v. 41 ; Meisn, in Llnnsea^ xiv, iOO, partly. LacJinrea 

 paleacea^ Herh. BanJcs, ex Wil'str. in Vet, Acad. HandL Stocl'h. 

 1818, 324. 



South Africa: witliout locality, Sparrmann, Drege, Lftdwig. 



7, P. rubra (C. H. ^\"right) ; branches virgate, slender, white- 

 pubescent when young, at length glabrous, internodes slightly 

 longer than the leaves; leaves oblong, obtuse, triquctrouSj \\ lin. 



long, l^ lin. thick, glabrous ; flowers crowded near the upper part of 

 the branches; bracts ovate, 2 lin. long, 1] lin. wide, densely silky 

 inside, glabrous and strongly 5- or 7-ribbed outside ; bi'acteoles ; 

 calyx-tube ovoid, 1^ lin. long ; lobes elliptic, concave^ obtuse, 1^ lin. 

 Ijng, ^ lin. wide, subscarious ; stamens 8, the longer as long as the 

 calyx-lobes ; ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma peni- 

 cillate. 



Coast Region: Riversdale Div, ; ^Muiskraal, near Garciaa Pass, 1200 ft., 



Galpin, 4492 1 Albany Div. ; mountains near Howisons Poort, 2000 ft., 

 MacOican, 103 ! 



8. P, ericoides (Linn. Mant. 236) ; branches numerous, slender, 

 short, at first tomcntose, finally glabrous ; leaves closely adpressed 

 to the branches, linear or ovate-oblong, 1 lin. long, obtuse or 

 truncate, thick, glabrous ; flowers in short terminal spikes ; bracts 

 transversely oblong, 1 lin. long, H lin. wide, obtuse, glabrous 

 outside, woolly within: calyx-tube ovoid, 1^- lin. long, glabrous, 

 submembranous ; lobes elliptic, concave, obtuse, scarious, 1 lin. long, 

 I lin. wide ; longer stamens two-thirds as long as the calyx-lobes ; 

 ovary ovate ; style filiform, longer than the calyx-tube. Lam. 

 Encycl. V- 41; Tr/Z:6'/r. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stochli. 1818, 325; 

 3Ielsn. in Linneea, xiv. 401, and in DO. Prodr. xiv. 562; Drege, 

 Zwei Pfl. Documente, 114, 129. P. ghmerata, Thmh. Prodr. 75, 

 and FL Cap. ed. Sclndt. 374. LacJttidea conghmerata, Linn, Sp. PI. 



ed. i. n60; Wilhl Sp. PI. ii. 434. 



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