26 TUYMEL.EACE.E (Wriglit). [LacJm^a. 



18, L- micrantha (Schlechter in Engl, Jabrb. xxiv. 451); an 

 erect much-branched shrub, 2-3 ft. high ; branchlets filiform, erect, 

 puberulous or villous ; leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, 1|- lin. long, ^ lin. wide, glabrous, slightly keeled 

 on the back ; flowers solitary in the leaf-axils, very small ; calyx 

 white, at the length reddish, glabrous ; tube ovoid, ^ lin. long ; outer 

 lobes 1 lin. lon^r, h lin. wide ovate, acute, inner suborbicular, obtuse, 

 several-nerved ; stamens shorter than the calyx-lobes ; scales short, 

 fleshy, bilobecl ; ovary oblong ; style lateral^ tiliform ; stigma 

 capitate. 



Coast Region ; Breda=^dorp Div. •, Elim, 400 ft., Schlechter, 7702 ! Riet Fonteiu 



Poort, 200 ft., Bolus, 8596 ! 



19. L. axillaris (Meisn. in Linncea, xiv. 422); a dwarf much- 

 branched shrub ; branches flexuous and interlacing, very slender, 

 puberulous ; leaves opposite, 1-2 lin. long, ^ lin. wide, acute or 

 mucronate, convex on the back, glabrous ; flowers axillary, solitary ; 

 calyx-tabe oblong, 1 lin. long, glabrous; lobes broadly elliptic, 

 obtuse, 1^ lin. long, 1 liu. wide, glabrous ; scales villous, conspicuous ; 

 stamens shorter than the calyx-lobes ; ovary oblong, glabrous ; style 

 excentric, filiform } stigma penicillate. Meisn. in Hook, Land. Jonrn. 

 ii. 552, and in DC. Frodr, xiv. 580. Bndojitskya capensis, Turcz ii> 

 BfdJ, Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1852, ii. 176, and in Flora, 1853, 743. 

 Passerinn hrimioides, EckL & Zryli., partly^ ex Meisn. in DG. 

 Prodr. Ix. 



South Africa : without locaHty, Dref/e ! 



Coast Ekgiox : Svvelleudam Div. ; Zoetemlals Vallei, Kravss^ 1265' bis; on 

 mountains by the Gouritz PJ\er, Eeklon, Zet/lier, 2163 ! 



Imperfecthj Jnumn species. 



20. L. dubia (Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Hot. France, Ix. 417, 1913) ; 



allied to L. glolidiferciy Meisn., from which it differs by the following 

 characters ; — ^brandies adpressed-pubescent ; leaves muticous, half 

 as long (2| lin.), usually alternate, not opposite; flowers smaller. 



Coast Regiox ; Cape Div. j Table Mountain, Dehcaux. 



VII. STRUTHIOLA., Lin 



n. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tuhe slender, sometimes slightly 

 inflated above; lobes 4, patent. Prtah 4, 8 or 12, erect, thick and 

 fleshy, equidistant in a single whorl, each one surrounded by hairs. 

 Stamens 4, included in the calyx-tube and alternate with its lobes; 

 anthers subsessile, linear, connective shortly produced above the 

 cells; cells contiguous on the Inner side. Hypogynous disc 0. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate, Frnif small, 

 dry, meluded in the persistent base of the calyx; pericarp thinly 



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