Chymococca?^ 



THYMEL.EACE^ (Wright). 



15 



A lieatli-like slirub with the hcabit of Pa^sertna 

 stem leaves. 



DiSTRiB. Monotypic, endemic. 



1. C. empetroides (Meisn. In DO, Proclr. xiv. 565) ; a small 



much-branched shrub j branchlets whitish-tomentose ; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite, oblong, trigonous, obtuse, rather thick, 1-1 1 Hn. 

 long, smooth or rugulose ; bracts nearly 1 lin. wide, acuminate ; 

 flowers in a short spike at the apex of the branchlets ; calyx green 

 {3Ieisner)y 1|- lin. long, deciduous ; tube oblong, puberulou-s outside 

 -and in the throat ; lobes roundish, equal, glabrous, | Kn. across ; 

 stamens 8, the 4 opposite the calyx-lobes nearly as long as them, 

 the others rather 



shorter ; 



o\aiy ovoid ; style slender, nearly as 

 long as the ovary ; stigma capitate, papillose ; berry globose, 3 lin. 

 in diam., shining scarlet (Bolus); seed ovoid, slightly compressed, 



-shining black. 



XIV, 



Me I 



315. 



fiViformisy va r. erassifi 



Afi 



1" Ztijli. ex 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher ! Harvey^ 6J:1 ! 



Coast EEaiO>' : Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, Wriyht I Kalk Bay. 50 it,, Bolas^ 



4498 ! 



Westerx Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Zovxt River, Bolus, 42 ! 



V. CRYPTADENIA, Meisn. 



Flmvers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, 

 <5onstricted and at length circumscissile above the ovary ; naked 

 inside above the filaments ; lobes 4, patent, as long as or lo/iger than 

 the tube. Stamens 8, all or the 1 upper shortly exserted ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers oblong ; connective narrow. Scales S to many 



the stamens. Disc 0. Ovary sessile, 



m a 



single 



series 



below 



1-celled; style filiform, sometimes thicker and hairy above. Fniit 

 'dry, included in the persistent thinly membranous base of the calyx. 

 Seed with a shining crustaceous testa ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 



-subterete. 



Much-branched, heath-like undershnibs ; leaves decussate, small, aeerose or 

 obtuse ; flowers solitary at the apex of the branches or in the axils of the upper 

 Jeaves, often silky outside, bibracteolate. 



DrsTRJB. Species 5, endemic. 



» 4 



Calyx-lobes 6 lin. long 



Calyx-lobes 3 lin. long : 

 Branchlets glabrous 



Branches at first puberulous 

 Calyx-lobes 2 lin. long, oblong 

 *Calyx-lobes li lin. long, ovate 



• • « 



(1) grandiflora. 



* 1 



- * A 



(2) uniiiora. 



(3) laza. 



(4) breviflora. 



(5) filicaulis. 



