Strutliiola.] THYMEL.eaue^: (Wriglit). 41 



terminal tuft of white hairs ; flowers in the axils of tlic upper 

 leaves; bracts 6 lin. long, 1^^ lin. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 densely white-ciliate on the margin ; calyx-tube pubescent outside, 

 10 lin. long, | lin. diam., cylindrical; lobes lanveolate, acuminate, 

 1| lin. long, i lin. wide, hairy outside; petals 12, clavate, 1 Hn. 

 long, surrounded by hairs of about equal length ; anther^s oblong, 

 acuminate, 1 lin. long; ovary oblong, A lin. long, glabrous ; style 

 filiform ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast Region: Riversdale Div. ; near Garcia?? Pass, BurcMI, 7152! Humana. 

 dorp Div. ; Kruisfoutein, near Humansdorp, Galpin, 4510 ! 



37. S. fasciata (C. 11. Wright); fasciculately branched; branches 

 densely woolly when young, leaf-scars not very prominent ; leaves 

 opposite, linear, 3J lin. long, I lin. wide, obtuse ; flowers in the 

 axils of the uppermost leaves and just protruded from them; bracts 

 lanceolate, acute, very densely woolly on the margins ; bracteoles 

 1 lin, long, ^ lin. wide, woolly on the margins; calyx -tube 3J^ lin. 

 long, pubescent ; lobes ovate, acute, 1 lin. long, | lin. wide ; petals 12, 

 oblong, subacute, slightly longer than the surrounding hairs ; 

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

 small. 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div. ; betweea Zuurbraak and Bufleljagts River 

 Drift, Burchell, 7266 I 



38. S. tomentosa (Andr. Bot. Kep. t. 334) ; an undershrub ; 

 branches slender, at first tomentose, at length covered with raised 

 scars ; leaves closely imbricate, oval-oblong, subobtuse, up to 5 lin. 

 long and 3 lin. wide, coriaceous, the lowermost sometimes smaller and 

 linear-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved on the back, when young canescent, 

 sometiuies almost glabrous in age, the up2:>ermost slightly sheathing ; 

 flowers in the axils of the upper leaves ; calyx hairy ; tube 5-6 lin. 

 long, cylindrical ; lobes oblong, subobtuse, about |- lin. Ion 

 hairy ; petals 12, rather longer than the calyx-lobes, surrounded by 

 slightly shorter hairs; anthers included, oblong, acute, about ^ ii^i* 

 long ; ovary oblong. Ait, Hort, Kew, ed, 2, i. 272 ; Boem. dt Schulf. 

 Syst iii. 333; WlLstr. in Vet. Arad HamU. Stoch 1818, 292; 

 Meisn, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 57L S. villosa, Wihstr. in Vet, Acad, 

 Handl Stock. 1818, 288. S. chrysantha, EcU. .(■ Zeijl, ex Meisn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiv. 572, not of Lichtenstein. 



South Africa : without locality, Niven ! 



Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentot.s Holland, 800-2000 ft., Maud, 

 22! Caledon Div.; mountainB, Hermanuspetrusfonteia, 300 ft., Galpin^ 4513! 

 Lowrys Pass, 1000 ft., MacOivan in Herb. Xorm. Austr,-Afr,, 1951 ! mountains 

 near Hemel en Aarde, Zei/ker, 8740, Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 2500 ft., Schkchter, 

 7742 ! Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Eeklon, 





LnperfecUy Jcnoirn species. 



39. S, chrysantha (Lichtenst, ex Roem. & Schultes, Syst. iii. 



333) ; branches pilose when young ; leaves imbricate, ovate-oblong; 



