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and nearly 1 lln. wide, at first densely white-ciliate on the margins, 

 otherwise glabrous ; flow^ers 2-6 at the apex of the branches ; 

 calyx silky outside ; tube cylindricalj 4 lin, long, rather slender ; 

 lobes ovate^ acute, 3 lin. long, 2 lln. wide; petals 4, membranous, 

 bifid ; ovary compressed laterally ; anthers oblong, | lin. long ; 

 fruit lenticular^ brown with dai'k small spots. Drege, Zwei Pfi^ 

 Documente, 84, and in Ltnnsea, xx. 209; Meisn, in DC. Prodr, xiv, 

 582; Bolus & Wolley-Bod in Trans. S, Afr, PJttL Soc, xiv, 315. 



Coast Eegion : Paarl Div. ; Toll Bar Vley, French Hoek, Grey ! Cape Div. ; 

 Smitswinkel Vley, Wolhy-Dod. 768 1 12411 iSimons Bay, Wright \ Klaver Vley, 

 near Simons Town, 800 ft., BoluB, 7014! Cape Point, SCO ft., Schlcchtcr, 73101 

 Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1000-2000 ft., Dregel Hottentots Holland, 

 1000-3000 ft., Mund, VM Zeyher, 3742! Caledon Div.; Vogelgat, 200 ft., 

 Schlechter, 9567 ! Zwart Berg, £ihlon d* Ztijhcr\ 



13. G. quadrifaria (C. H. Wright) ; a much-branched shrub ; 



^ branches slender, reddish, at first j)ubescent5 leaf-scars moderately 



prominent ; leaves approximate, subopposite, narrowly lanceolate, 



^ acuminate, 5 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. wide, distinctly 4-ranked, 



glabrous, margins inflexed above, 3-nerved beneath ; flowers few at 

 the apex of the branches ; calyx yellow, pubescent outside ; tube 

 4 lin. long; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 4, 

 membranous, about 1| lin. long, 1 lin, wide; anthers oblong, i lin. 

 long, the upper exserted on stout filaments }j lin. long; ovary 

 oblong, hairy at tlie apex; style nearly as long as the calyx-tube; 

 stigma capitate. 



Coast Region- : Huruansdorp Div.; Kruisfontein Mountains, 1000 ft.. Galpiny 

 4518! 



i 14, G-. styphelioides (Meisn. in Linnrea, xiv. 453); a subshrub ; 



branches obscurely angled, pubescent when young, with moderately 

 prominent leaf-scars ; leaves opposite, lanceolate, pungent, 5-8 lin. 

 long, 1-11 liu. wide, flat, glabrous, 3-5-nerved, involucral wider; 

 flowers 1-3, terminal, sessile; calyx yellow, puberulous outside, 

 pubescent inside ; tube 4| lin. long, funnel-sliaped ; lobes oblong, 

 acute, 2 lin. long, 1 lin, wide ; petals 4, membranous, half as long 



; as the lobes; upper anthers exserted, all oblong, 1^ lin. long, obtuse; 



ovary ovate, compressed, with a terminal tuft of hafrs ; style 



\ excentric, nearly as long as the calxy-tube ; stigma capitate. 



Drege, Zwei PJl, Bocumente, 137 ; Mcisn, in DC. Prodr xiv. 587. 



EpichroxantJia rnngpm, EcJd. d Zeyh ex Meisn. Z.r,, and El^Mfkz, 



loartly ^ 

 Tlegh. in Bull Soc. Bof. France, xl. (1893) 76' 



.^ui\. ;-^navbeTg liun^re^ northern slope, 2500-3500 ft., 

 ^oega and Zondereinrle Rivers, Athlon <fc Zr^/Jnr I Van 

 |taaen. uiver ^louutams, -^^^^e/, 267 1 3753! Pappe, 24! Eeklon/^^Sl Van 

 Stadens Hoogte ^/ac<J^^^^^ Bay, Forbes \ and ^vith;ut precise 



rS ^R '^T; ll^^1^''"^ Eh.abeth Div. ; at the upper part of the Maitlaud 

 River, Burchell, 4618 ! between Krakakamma and the upper part of Maitland 



