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Cryptadenia.^ THYMEL.-EACE^ (^^^^'^S^iO- ^"^ 



Drege ! between Krotnrivier and Ber<:; Yallei, under 1000 ft., Brejr, Pi<petberg 

 Div. ; Twenty-four River, under lODO ft., Dreje, Mahnesbury Div. ; between 

 Groene Kloof and Dassen Berg, under 500 ft., Dre^e. Tulbagb Div. : Roodezand, 

 near Tulbagb, Drege, Ceres Road, Schlechter, 90S9 ! ^A'■orcester Div. ; Breede 

 River, near Bains Kloof, 800 ft.. Bolus, 29^3 1 Cape Div.; Cape b^lats, Zcf/her, 

 14S5I EcMori, 362! Harvey I Tt^son, 1459! Wynberg Flats, Wilms, 35921 I'hege, 

 near Claremont, 100 ft., Bolus, 2923 Bl WoUey-Dod, 611 ! Vy£?e.skraal, WoUey- 

 Dod, 482 ! sand flats between P;iarden Island, Tygerberg and Blucberg, Dreje ! 

 near Cape Town, 100 ft., Bolus, 4592 ! Princesi Vley, MacOwan, Iltvb, Austr,'Afi\, 

 1637 ! 



3. C. laxa (C. H. AVright) ; plant not exceeding 1 ft. in 

 height ; branches arising close to the ground, wiry, at first pube- 

 rulouSj finally glabrous ; internodes usually as long as the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acute, up to 4 lin. long and nearly 

 1 lin. wide, concave, smooth on the back or slightly keeled above, 

 glabrous ; flowers solitary, terminal : calyx silky outside ; tube 

 cylindrical, slender, 2-3 lin. long; lobes ovate, 3 lin. Ions:, IJ hn. 

 wide, subacute ; longer stamens reaching to the middle of the calyx- 

 lobes ; anthers oblong, ^ lin. long; scales oblong, slender, | hn. 

 long, at base of free part of tilament ; ovary oblong, glabrous ; style 

 lateral, filiform, thickened and hairy above ; stigma shortly clavate. 



South Africa : without locality^ Harvey ! 



Coast Kegiox : Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 3200 ft., Bolus, 

 787o 1 near Houw Hoek, 2000 ft., Bolus, 9208 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, Bolus, 



7876! 



4, C. brevi flora (Meisn. in Linntea, xiv. 406) ; branches pubescent 



when young, at length glabrous ; leaves decussate, patulous, linear, 

 acute, keeled on the back, glabrous, 2^ lin. long, ^ lin. wide ; 

 flowers terminal, solitary; calyx silky outside; tube 2 lin. long, 

 infundibuliform ; lobes oblong, 2 Hn. long, 1 lin. wide ; anthers 

 oblong, obtuse, f lin. long ; ovary ovoid ; style columnar, lateral. 

 Brege^ Zwei Pfl. Documente^ 99 ; Meisn. in DC, Prodr, xiv. 573 ; 

 Bolus d Wolley-Dod hi Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 315. Passer ina 

 nniflora^ p alba, Berg, Descr, PL Cap. 129. P. campanulata, 

 E. Meyer ex Meisn, in DC, Prodr, xiv. 574. P. grandiflora, Curt. 

 But. Mag, t 292. Calycoseris tahularis, C. suhulata and C. parvi- 

 flora, EckL tt Zeyh ex Meisn, in DO, Prodr, xiv. blL—Thymel^a 

 foliis triquetris, angiistisyetc, Biirm. Ear. Afr. PL Dec. v. 132, /. 48, 

 Jig. 2. Thjmelsea fruticosa Pinastri, etc., PIuJc, Mant. 180, and 

 Phyt. t. 445, fig. 8. ' 



South Africa : without locality, Niven, EschschoUz, Lalandc, PhiUlps, 3796 ! 



Coast Region : Paarl Div. ; between Paarl and Lady Grey Raihvay Eridge, 

 Drege \ Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecldon, 360! Doornhoogte, Cape Flats, 

 Zeyher, 3744, near Smitswinkel Bay not far from Cape Point, MacOivan ! 

 Stellenbo.sch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, MacOwan, 31S2! Caledon Div.; Houw 

 Hoek, 1000 ft., Galpin, 4493 ! 



5. C. filicaulis (Meisn. in Linmea, xiv. 407); an underslirub 



about 1 ft. high; branches slender and wiry, glabrous; leaves 



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