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THYMEL.^ACEJ^: (Wligllt). 



[Struthiola 



Flowers much longer than the leaves : 



Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute 



Calyx-lobes oblong : 

 Leaves linear . . . 



« • * 



Leaves acerose 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse 



Leaves oblong 



Leaves linear-lanceolate 



* « 



♦♦♦Petals 12 : 



Calyx glabrous : 



Calyx-tube 12 lin. long 



Calyx-tube 8-9 lin. long 



Calyx-tube 6 lin. long or less : 



Leaves obtuse 



Leaves acute : 



Branchlets pubescent . . . 



Branchlets villous 



Calyx hairy: 



Calyx-tube 9-10 lin. long : 

 Leaves suborbicular 



4 4 



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# W 



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# 4 « 



* * 



* 4 



t 4 ^ 



W * 



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Leaves ovate -lanceolate, subacute 



Leaves lanceolate, acute ... 

 Leaves oblong, obtuse 

 Calyx-tube 3 J lin. long 



Calyx-tube 5-6 lin. long 



.. (23) lucens. 



.. (24) recta. 



.. (25) angnstifolia. 



.. (26) virgata. 

 ... (27) confusa. 



.. (28) leiosiphon 

 ., (29) rigida. 



(30) ramosa. 



(31) Galpini 



(32) MundtiL 



... (33) argentea. 



..• (34) bachmanniana. 



,., (35) martiana. 

 ... (36) garciana. 

 ... (37) fasciata. 

 ... (38) toxnentosa. 



1. S. striata (Lam. 111. i. 314); a subshrub; branchlets pube- 

 scent, becoming glabrous and scarred in age ; leaves opposite, 

 closely imbricate, ovate-oblong, subacute, 5 lin. long, 1^ lin. wide, 

 strongly nerved on the back, ciliate when young, glabrous in age ; 

 bracteoles linear, obtuse, 1^ lin. long; flowers solitary in the axils 

 of the upper leaves ; calyx-tube pubescent outside, 5 lin. long, 

 cylindrical except close to the apex; lobes oblong, acute, 1;^ lin. 

 long, |- lin. wide ; petals 4, half as long as the calyx-lobes, 

 oblong, surrounded by straight hairs of about equal length ; anthers 

 included, slightly callose at the apex ; ovary glabrous. Lam. 

 EncycL vii. 476 (incL var, imbricata) ; Wikstr. in Vet. Acad, 



HandL Stockh, 1818, 288 ; Meisn. in Linnsea^ xiv. 477, and in DC, 

 Prodr. xiv. 572; Drege in LinnseUj xx. 211 ; Bolus dc WoUey-Dod 

 in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soe. xiv. 315. S. imbricata^ Andr. iJep. 

 t. 113 ; Pers. Syn. i. 149; Herb. Amat. in. 184; Boem, & Sehult. 

 Syst. Veg. iii. 332. S. virgata^ Wendl, Bot. Beohacht. 9, t. ^,Jig- 9 ; 

 Willd. Sp. PL i. 691, partly; Linhy Enum. i. 111. S, lateriflora, 

 Hornem, Hort. Hafn. ii. 955 ; Boem. d Sehult, Syst. Veg. iii. 330. 

 S. sulcata, Schmidt in Usteri, Ann. vi. 120 ; Wikstr. in Vet. Acad. 

 HandL Stockh. 1818, 292. S^brevifolia, Willd. ex Meisn. in Linnsea^ 

 xiv. 477. 



South Africa: without ]ocoliij, Steher, 184! Pappe, 49! Thorn, 428! 554! 

 995 I EcJdon & Zeijher, 57, Hai-ceij, 690 I 



