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20 THYMEL.EACE.E (Wriglit). [LacJin^rf. 



So L'TH Africa : without locality, Thunhergl Forsterl 



Coast Region: Tulbagh Div!^ ; Tulbagh, Fappel Ceres Div. ; near Ceres, 

 amongst stones on tbe SkiirfdeLerg Range, 1800 ft., Bolus, 7349 1 and in Herh, 

 Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1091! AVorcester Div.; Goudinie, Cooper, 3149! Dutoits 

 Kloof, Dregel mouth of Els Kloof, Hex River, Wolley-Dod^ 2758 t 



3. L. fllamentosa (Meisn. in LiniiJ^aj xiv. 410); a shrub; leaves 

 alternate, imbricate, elliptic-oblong, acute, 5 lin. long, li liii. wide, 

 sessile, glabrous ; flowers in terminal heads ; calyx-tube cylindrical 

 and slender from a subglobose base, 4 lin. long, densely villous; 

 lobes unequal, the abaxial elliptic, subacute, 4 lin. long, 1| lin. 

 wide, tbe others half as large, all densely hairy on both surfaces ; 

 stamens shorter than the smaller calyx-lobes ; scales oblong, h Hii- 

 long, almost hidden by hair; ovary oblong, glabrous ; style filiform, 

 villous in the upper part; stigma penicillate, Meisn. in DC. Proch\ 

 xiv. 575 ; Drege, Zicei Pfl, Documente, 73. Gnldla fdamcnfosa, 

 Thunh. FL Gap, ed, Sahidt. 378, not of Linn. 



YxK. j3, major (Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 575) ; a more robnst plant than 

 the type ; leaves up to 10 lin. long and 4J lin. wide ; calyx up to 1 in. long. 

 Z. glauca, EcJd. & Zeyh. ex Meisn. I.e. 



Coast Regiox : Clanwilliam Div. ; Ceder Berg Range, near Honig Valley, 3000- 

 4000 ft., Drege \ Sneeuvvkop, 5000 ft., Bodkin in llerh. Bolus, 9085 ! Var. )3 : 

 Tulbagh Div. ; Winterhoek Mountains, near Tulbagh, Ecldon & Zeyher^ 72, 2500- 

 5000 ft., Bolus, 5260 t Marloth in MacOtvan, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 1952! 



4. L. nervosa (Meisn. in Linn^ea, xiv, 417); an erect, more or 

 less virgate slirub ; branches slender, pubescent ; leaves alternate, 

 acerose-linear, pungent, 5 lin. long, -J lin. wide, sessile ; heads 

 terminal, few-flowered ; calyx densely silky outside ; tube 2 lin. 

 long, inflated lower part slightly shorter than the cylindrical upper ; 



lobes equal, lanceolate, acute, 2^ lin. long, f lin. wide ; longer 



stamens reaching to the middle of the lobes ; scales filiform, nearly 

 1 lin. long ; ovary ovoid ; style lateral, filiform, hairy above ; 

 stigma penicillate. Meisn, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 579 ; Drege in 

 Linneea, xx. 209, Passerina nervom^ Thanh. FL Cap. ed. ScJtuH. 

 375; Wikstr. in Vet Acad. Handl Stockh. 1818, 328. GonophjVa 

 stvida, EM. & Zpyli, ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 579. 



South Africa : without locality, Villet ! Niven, Dreye, 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch and neighbourhood, 

 1000-4000 ft., Zeyher, 3767 ! Ludwi^, EcUon, 



5. L. eriocephala (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 5G0) ; a branched under- 



shrub, |— 1^ ft. high; branches moderately stout, at first pubescent ; 

 leaves quadrifarious, imbricate, linear-triquetrous, 4 lin. long, ^ lin. 

 wide, glabrous ; flowers in terminal solitary heads ; involucral bracts 

 broadly ovate, acute, keeled, 5 lin. long, about 4 lin. wide, hairy on 

 both surfaces, more consnicuouslv so on thp mnrmn ttp,it' fKp ar\i 



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calyx white, densely hairy ; tube 5 lin. long, slightly inflated in the 



