16 THYMEL^ACE.-E (Wright). [Cryjjiadniia, 



1. C. grandiflora (Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 405) ; a small nuich- 

 branched shrub ; branchlets slightly pubescent ; leaves opposite,, 

 sessile, adpressed, linear or oblong, concave, rounded on the back 

 or keeled towards the apex, acute, 2-4 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. wide, 

 the uppermost slightly wider, glabrous ; calyx mauve (Galpin)^ 

 silky outside ; tube cylindrical, f lin. in diani. ; lobes oblong, obtuse 

 or acute, up to 6 lin. long and 3 lin. wdde ; scales oblong, ^- lin. 

 long ; the 4 stamens opposite the calyx-lobes a thiid as long as 

 them, the others shorter ; ovary oblong, |- lizi, long ; style slightly 

 oblique, slender, reaching to the level of the longer stamens ; stigma 

 subcapitate. Meisn, in HooJc, Lond. Journ. Hot. ii. 552, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. 573; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans, S. Afr. PhiL Sor\ 

 xiv. 315; Gilg in Engl, d Prantl^ Pjlanzenfam, iii. 6 A, 234^ 

 fig, 83 E. Gnidla padnjphylla, Sjjreng, ex Sleisn. in Linn-cfo, xiv. 

 405. Cahjsericos caniculataj EckL & Z^'yh. ex Dr^'ge in Linnsea^ 

 XX. 210. 



Vak. 0, latifolia (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv, 573) ; leaves oval or oblong, flat 

 or slightly incurved at the margins, 2^-4 lin. long, 1^-2^ lin. wide, acute, nerve- 

 less ; calyx half as large as in the type ; tube as long as the leaves ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, 4~4J lin. long, 3 lia. wide. 



South Africa : ^vithout locality, Sieher ! Grey ! WalUch ! Drejc, Ilarref/, 643 I 

 Var. j8, without collector's name. 



Coast Kegion : Malmesbury Div. ; Mamre, Baur ! Cape I)Iv. ; Cape I^Iats, near 

 Rondebosch, BurcheU, 163! 194 1 Ecklon, 361! Cape Peninsula, Komnietjes, 

 100 ft., Galpin, 4494 ! Vygesbraal Farm, Wolley-Dod, 663 ! Muizenberg, 1000 ft., 

 Bolus, 4635! Simons Bay, W right \ MacG lUh-ray , 632! 633! Milne, 170! 

 Stellenbosch Div. ; between Stellenbosch and Bnttelary Hill, Burchcll, 8342 t 

 between Lowrys Pass and Jonkers Hoek, Biirchell, 8326 ! Caledon Div. ; Houw 

 Hoek, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 9375! 



2. C. uniflora (Meisn. in Linn^ea, xiv. 406); an undershrub; 

 branches slender, glabrous; leaves opposite, subacicular, 3-6 lin. 

 long, ^ lin. wide, subpungent, keeled, glabrous ; bracts 4, like the 

 leaves ; flowers solitary ; calyx silky outside ; tube 3 lin. long, 

 cylindrical, hairy in the throat ; lobes o\ ate-elliptic, acute, 3 lin. long, 

 1| lin. w^ide, purple, glabrous within; scales minute, oblong, in- 

 serted at about the middle of the calyx-tube; filaments ^ lin. long, 

 stout ; anthers oblong, about as long as the free part of the fila- 

 ment ; ovary oblong, f lin. long, glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma 

 clavate. Meisn, in DC, Prodr. xiv. 573; Drege^ Zwei PJJ. Docu- 

 menfe, 104, 110, 111, 112, 119; But, 3Iag, f. 4143; Bolus d- Wolley^ 

 Dod in Trans. S, Afr. Phil, Soc, xiv. 315. (/. ciliata^ Meisn. in 

 LinnseUj xiv. 407, and in DC, Prodr, xiv, 574. Passerina iinijloraj 

 Linn. Sp. PL ed, i. 560; Lam. Ill, t, 291, fig, 1 ; Wll^tr, in Vet, 

 Acad, HandL Stoclch. 1S18, 344; var, purpurea, Berg, Deser, PL 

 Cap. 128. Cahjcoseris uniflora, EM. & Zeyh, ex Meisn, in DC, 

 Prodr. xiv. 573. — Thymelsea ramosaj linearihu.^, etCy Bnrm, Bar. 

 Afr, PL Dec. v, 134, t AS, fig. 1. 



South Avrica: without locality, Mund ! ViUet I Krehs^ 61 ! 



Coast IIegio>^: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Pikenieri^ Kloof and Markus Kraal 



