18 TilYMEL^ACE^ (Wright). ' [Cryptadcnia. 



decussate, oblong, acute, 3 lin, long, ^ lin. wide, flat or slightly 

 concave above, convex beneath, glabrous; flowers usually solitary, 

 terminal ; calyx pubescent outside ; tube ovoid for about 1 liu., then 

 suddenly dilated into a cup | lin. deep and li- lin, in diani. ; lubes 

 ovate, 2 acute, 2 obtuse, 1^ lin. long, f lin. wide; longer stamens 

 reaching to about the middle of the calyx-lobes ; anthers oblong, 

 \ lin. long ; scales yellow, smaller than the anthers ; ovary ovoid ; 

 style lateral, columnar, Meisn, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 574; Drege in 

 L'ninsea^ xx. 210. Gnidia genidarfoUa^ EckL dc Zcyh. ex 3[eisn. Lc, 



South Africa: without locality, Drhje, 7367 ! 



Coast Region : Calecloii Div. ; lliver Zoiider Eiude, near Appelr^kraal, Zcyher^ 



3748 ! Vogel*<at, 100 ft., Schkchter, 9o79 ! Zwarteberg, Zeyhev, 3747! 



Ckstral "RkgiON : Ceres Div. ; between Witzenberj:^ and Skurfdeberg, 2000- 

 500Q ft., Zeuhcr, 5! 1486! Cold Bokkeveld, Klyn Ylei, 4000 ft., SrhUcMer, 

 10067 ! . 



VI. LACHN^A, Linn. 



Flowers hevmaj)hrodite. Gidyx-inhe cylindrical, or constricted 

 above the ovary, circumscissile ; lobes 4, patent, the outer usually 

 rather larger; throat naked. Petals 0. Stamens 8, usually shortly 

 exserted ; filaments filiform ; anthers small, connective narrow. 

 Scales 8, linear or clavate, included in the calyx-tuhe below the 

 stamens. Disc 0. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; style filiform; stigma 

 globose or ovoid. Fruit dry, enclosed in the persistent base of the 

 calyx; pericarp thinly membranous. Seed with shining crustaceous 

 testa ; albumen fleshy ; embryo subterete or with slightly flattened 

 cotyledons. 



Small heath-like shrubs ; leaves opposite or scattered, usually small, coriaceous ; 

 flowers in terminal bracteate or ebracteate heads, rarely solitary. 

 DisTBiB. Species 19, endemic. 



Floorers large (6-9 lin. long) in termuial heads ; 

 Heads not involucrate : 



Leaves obtuse ; calys-lobea 3 lin. wide ( 1 ) macrantha. 



Leaves acute ; calyx-lobes 1 J lin. wido : 



Leaves 4-5 lin. wide ... (2) buxifolia. 



Leaves IJ lin. wide (3) filamentosa. 



Leaves acute ; calyx-lobes f lin. wide ( 4 ) nervosa. 



Heads involucrate : 



Leaves di:.tiuctly 4-ranked (5) eriocepliala. 



Leaves scattered : 



Bracts villous along the top ( 6 ) purpurea. 



Bracts quite glabrotiB (7) aurea. 



Flowers small (leos than 5 lin. long) ; 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate (8) striata. 



Leaves Imear to subulate : 

 Flowtrri in terminal beads : 

 Leaves more or less spreading : 



Head many-flowered : branches long, virgate : 



Branches at first pubescent (9) densiflora. 



