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42 TilYMEL^ACE^. (Wright). [StrntJdoIa. 



snbobtuse, 3-nervedj densely pilose when young ; calyx pubescenU; 

 tnbe long, fiHform; petals 12, surrounded by golden hairs. Meisn. 

 in DC. ProdK xiv, 570. 



Coast Region : Tulbagh Div. ; Witzenberg Range, LkJdensteln. 

 Meisner compares this with S. tomcntosaj Andr. 



40. S. ecMoniana (Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ix. -ilO, 

 1913j not of Meisn.) ; an undershrub ; branches tortuous, divaricate 

 or patent ; leaves twice as long as those of S, virgatcij but narrower, 

 more floccose, longer than the flowers ; calyx-tube hirtellous ; lobes 

 elliptic, glabrous. 



South Afuica : without locality, Ecldon & Zeyher, 



4h S. dodecapetala (Bartl. ex Meisn, in Linnsea, xiv. 475) ; 



branches stout, 1 ft. or more high, tctragonous and hirsute above, 

 terete and glabrous below ; leaves opposite, quadrifarious, imbricate, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly recurved at the apex, 6 lin. long or 

 more, obscurely sulcate, midrib prominent, secondary nerves obscnre, 

 silky-ciliate when young, at length glabrous; flowers sessile, axil- 

 lary near the ends of the branches, solitary, twice as long as the 

 leaves ; bracteoles linear, obtuse, ciliate, 3 lin. long ; calyx-tube 

 filiform, inflated above, silky outside \ lobes ovate, obtuse ; petals 12, 

 surrounded by hairs of equal length, Meisn, In DG. Prodr, xiv. 

 571. 



Var. 0, Kraussii (Mei^n. In DO. Prodr. xiv. 571); branches simple; leaves 

 3-5-nerved, the upper ovate-oblong, 6-7 liu. long, lower 8-10 lin. long, 3-4 lin. 

 wide, fclightly sheatlung ; calyx 12-14 lin, long, sparingly puberulous ; tube 

 slender; lobes 1 lin. long. S, dodecapetala, Meisn, hi nook. Lond. Journ. Bet. 

 \\, 455 ; KrausSy Beitr, FL C^ip- und Natal. 143. 



Coast Regio>' : Swellendam Div. ; Outeniqua, near Traduuw, without collector 8 

 name. Var. /3 : Cape Div. ; Devils Monntain, Kraiiss^ 763. 



VIII. GNIDIA, Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tuhe cylindrical, circumscissile 

 above the ovary; lubes 4, patent. Petals 4, 8 or 12, smaller than 

 the calyx-lobes, membranous or fleshy. Stamens 8 in 2 whorls, the 

 upper shortly exserted, rarely imperfect ; anthers oblong or linear ; 

 connective narrow. Hypogynous disc none or very shortly anixular. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-celled; stylo filiform; stigma capitate orpenicillate. 

 Fruit dry, small, enclosed in the persistent base of the calyx ; 

 pericarp membranous. Seed with crustaceous testa; albumen 

 scanty, rarely thick and fleshy ; cotyledons rather thick. 



Virgate or heath-like shrubs ; leaves usually small or narrow, opposite or 

 alternate ; flowers white, yellow, red or violet, capitate at the ends of the 

 branches, rarely ;=picate or solitary and axillary, bracteate. 



