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J: TllYMEL.^ACE.^ (Wright). [Stmthiola. 



H lin. long, 1 lin. wide, acute and thickened at the apex; petals 8 ; 

 anthers with produced acute connective ; ovary oblong ; style 5 Hn. 

 long, filiform ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast PlEGiox : .Caledon Div. ; Zoetemelks Valley, Burchell, 7578 ! 



16, S. ericoides (0. H. Wright) ; branches at first densely pube- 

 scent and with short internodes, finally glabrous and with slightly 

 prominent- leaf-scars ; leaves strictly 4-ranked3 oblong, 2| lin. long, 

 I" lin. wide, obtuse, ciliate Avhen young ; flowers axillary in the 

 upper part of the stem ; bracteoles i lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse, 

 midrib thick, margins membranous, ciliate ; calyx-tube glabrous, 

 4 J lin. long, slightly widening upwards ; lobes ovate, 1 lin. long, 

 I lin. "wide, obtuse; petals 8, about half as long as the calyx- 

 lobes, thick, slightly longer than the surrounding hairs ; anthers 

 with pointed connective; ovary oblong, glabrous; style filiform, 

 3 lin. long ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast Region : lUversdale Div. ; Milkwoodfonteinj 600 ft., Galpin^ 4609 ! 



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17, S. Schlechteri (G-ilg) ; a much-branched shrub ; branches at 

 first pubescent, finally glabrous, and rough with leaf-scars ; leaves 

 imbricate, oblanceolate, 3 lin. long, | lin. wide, with a single row of 

 rather distant cilia on the margin and a tuft of hairs at the apex ; 

 flowers in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracteoles oblong, slightly 

 longer than the leaves, about \ lin. wide, induplicate ; calyx-tube 

 pubescent, 7 lin. long^ slender ; lobes 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, oblong, 

 acute; petals 8, purplish, about | lin, long, thick, surrounded by 

 whitish hairs rather shorter than themselves ; anthers about J lin. 

 long, apiculate ; ovary oblong, glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma 

 penicillate. 



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Central Region : Calvinia Div. ; Oorlogs Kloof, 2200 ft., Schlecktcr, 10960 ! 



18. S. leptantha (Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xvi. 142); 



stem branched ; branches slender, glabrous ; leaves opposite, oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, 4 lin. long, 1 lin, wide, thick, flat above, convex 

 beneath, glabrous ; bracteoles like the leaves, but only 1^ lin. long ; 

 flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, pale yellow ; calyx tube 

 slender, nearly 1 in. long, pubescent, cylindrical, slightly inflated 

 above ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 2 lin. long, l^ lin. wide ; petals 8, 

 oblong, thick, 1 lin. long, surrounded by hairs half their length ; 



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feathery 





Coast Reg 

 Schlechter 



Region : Clanwilliaui Div. ; Lange Kloof, Schleckter, 8049 ! Blue Berg, 

 . 8443 1 Piquetberg Div.; Pikeniera Kloof, 850 ft., Schhchtcr, 49381 



Ba^hmann, 400 I 



Central PvEGION : Calvinia Div. ; near Nieuwoudtville, Leipoldt. 

 AYestern Regions : Little ]S^an)a<jualand ; in stony places near Ookiep, 3200 ft,, 

 Bolus in MacOican d: Bolus, Herb, No^-rn, Austr.-Afr,, 683 ! 



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