14 THY.MEL/EACEiE (Wright). IPassevvna. 



10. P. corymbosa (Eckl. ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 562) ; a 



much-branched undershrub ; branchlets slender, at first puberulous ; 

 leaves oblong, obtuse, about H lin. long, smooth; flowers collected 

 in short thick spikes at the ends of the branches ; bracts ovate, 

 subacute, H ha. ^ong, densely woolly inside, glabrous, ribbed and 

 keeled outside ; calyx-tube 2 lin. long, inflated and very finely 

 pubescent in the lower half, cylindrical, densely pubescent and 

 ^ lin. in diam. above; lobes elliptical, obtuse, concave, 1 lin. long; 

 stamens inserted in the calyx-throat, the outer slightly longer than 

 the lobes ; ovary |- lin. long, compressed, glabrous ; style lateral. 



Coast Regiox : Tulbagh Div. ; Piquetberg Road, Tijson, 2318 ! Saron, 3000 ft., 

 Schhchter, 10660! Swelleiidam Div.; Swellendam, Zeyherl Albany Div. ; High- 

 lands, Misses Daly it Sole, 297 ! Bathurst Div. ; Port Alfred, Ilaiton, 1G03 ! 

 Queen3to\\Ti Div. ; summit of Andriesberg, near Bailey, 6400-6800, GaJpin^ 2028 ! 



Cextral Region: Graaff Reinet Div. ; summit of Oude Berg, 5000 ft., and 

 Sneewberg Mountains, 5000-7500 ft., Bolua, 170 ! 



Kalahari Region : Basntoland ; Machachn, 9000 ft., Bryce ! 



Eastern Region: IS'atal ; Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4036 ! 



Imjjerfectly hiown species, 



11. P. eriophora (Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ix. 418, 

 1913); a cl^'arf shrub, very densely branched; branches white- 

 Avoolly, arcuately deflexed or pendulous ; leaves triangular, dilated 

 at the base, keeled, glabrous, straight, imbricate; flowers white, in 

 a short terminal spike, axis very woolly ; berry subglobose, reddish. 



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Eastern Region : Natal; near Durban, irooc?, 1702, 6592. 

 Allied to P, filifinnnis , Linn. 



12. p. hamulata (Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Prance, Ix. 418, 

 1913); quite glabrous except the branches; -brandies rigid, 

 straight, slender, tomentose ; leaves about 1 lin. long, quadrifarious, 

 imbricate, uncinate, pallid, dilated, mucronate and hooked at the 

 apex ; flowers white, capitate ; berry globose. 



Coast Region ; Cape Div. ; on sand dunes near Wynberg, Bolus, 

 This may be the same a3 P. evicoides, Linn. 



IT. CEYMOCOCCA, Meisn. 



Floicers hermaphrodite. Calyx-luhe urceolate, constricted above 

 the ovary, naked in the throat; lobes 4, patent. Stamens 8, fixed 

 in the calyx-throat, exserted; filaments a little shorter than the 

 calyx-lobes ; anthers ovate-oblong, connective narrow, Hypo- 

 gynous disc 0. Ovary subsessile, glabrous, 1-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stiguia globose. Fruit baccate, included in the base of the calyx 

 or no^, striate. Seed albuminous ; testa rather thick, at length 

 subcrustaceous ; cotyledons fleshy. 



