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24 THYMEL.^ACEiE (AVrigbt). [LacMxct. 



silky-villous outside, longer than the Lracts ; tube 1 lin. long, sub- 

 glooose;, constricted above; lobes subequal, elliptic, obtuse, coiicave, 

 1|- lin. long, 1 lin. wide, densely baiiy inside as well as outside; 

 stamens much shorter than the calyx-lobes ; scales linear, | lin, 

 long ; ovary elliptic, compressed ; style lateral, filiform ; stigma 

 penicillate. Meim. in DO. Prodr, xiv. 576; Drege, Zicei Pfl: 

 Doeitmcnfe^ 82. 



Var. j8, minor (Meisn. in LiniiDea, xiv. 418); leaves very narrowly iiuear- 

 acerose ; heads 2-(rarely 4-) flowered ; flowers white, scarcely exceeding the 

 bracts, Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 577 ; Dreye^ Zivei Pfl. Docume^ite, 82. 



Coast Regio>^: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft.. Bregel 

 Caletlon Div. ; Genadendal Mountains, 4000 ft., Galpin, 4498 ! Var. fi\ Worcester 

 Div. ; DutoitB Kloof, 4000-5000 ft,, Drege ! 



13. L. ericoides (Meisn. in DC. Protlr. xiv. 579); an undershrub, 

 up to 1 ft. high, fastigiately branched above ; branches slender, 

 hairy, reddish ; leaves opposite or alternate, oblong, incurved, 

 1-3 lin. long, |- lin. wide, keeled below, concave above, obtuse, 

 terminated by a tuft of short hairs; flower's few in terminal heads 

 or solitary ; calyx reddibh ; tube cylindrical and glabrous below, 

 slightly constricted and hairy above ; lubes suborbicular, 1 lin. 

 across, pubescent outside ; longer stamens nearly as long as the 

 calyx-lobes ; scales clavate, very short ; ovary obovoid ; style 



terminal, filiform, slightly hairy above ; stigma penicillate. Drhje 

 in LInnsea, xx. 209. GonoijliijJla ericoides^ Edd. & Zeyh, ex Meihn. Lc. 



Coast Regiox : Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Mund, 4 ! Zefjker, 3776 ! 

 Zuurbraak Mountain, 1000 ft., Galpin^ 4496! TraJouw Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin^ 

 4495! lliversdale Div. ; Langeberg Eange, near Riversdale, 1080 ft., SMechter 

 1730! 



Galpin, 4495, has the leaves more oval than in the other specimens. 



14. L. globulifera (Meisn. in Linnreaj xiv. 412) ; a shrub several 

 feet high; branches slender, glabrous except when quite young; 

 leaves opposite, linear, pungent, 3-4 lin. long, ^ lin. wide, glabrous; 

 flowers in terminal involucrate heads about 8 lin. in diam. ; bracts 4, 

 ovate-rotundate, acute, 2 lin. long and nearly as broad, glabrous on 

 both surfacesj ciliate on the margin with hairs | lin. long; calyx- 

 tube 2 lin. long, glabrous and inflated behjw, cylindrical and hairy 

 above ; lobes equal, ovate, acute, Ih lin. long, silky outside ; longer 

 stamens a little shorter than the calyx lobes ; scales filiform, J^ lin. 

 long, exserted ; ovary oblong, compressed; style lateral, filif<inn ; 

 stigma penicillate. Meisn. in DG. Prodr. xiv. 57G ; Drege, Zwei PJl. 

 Document€y 119, and in Linnaea, xx. 209, Gonophjlla 9€tosa, EckL 

 & Zeijh. ex Meisn, he, Passerina eriocephda, Thanh. FL Cap. ed, 

 Srhrdi. 375, not of others. 



Var. P, coerulescens (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 576) ; branches whitc-puberulous 

 at the apex ; flowers a little larger than in tlie type ; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, 

 acute. Gouophylla ccerulescens, £clL it' Ze^/h. ex Meisn. l.c, \ Drk'je in L'ninepa^ 

 xs. "209. 



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