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TIIYMEL.EACEiE (Wright). 



[Gnidia^ 



and near Cape Town, below 100 ft., Bolus, 3756 I Cape Fisits, 3Iac0ican ! Stellen- 

 bosch Div. : Palmiet River, EcJdon, 10 ! Hottentots Holland, Pappe I 



Cexthal Region: Yar. j8 : Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 

 8930 1 



I have not seen jg, albicans ^ var. g^'andijlovaj Meisn. in DC, Prodr. xiv. 584^ 

 from the Stellenbosch mouiilaiiis {EcUon, 52 and 91), but it seems to differ from 

 var, datior only in its larger size, its flowers reaching a length of 8 or 9 lines. 



18. Gr. chrysopliylla (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 584) ; branches 

 slender, glabrous ; branchlets silky ; leaves opposite, imbricate, 

 obtuse, nerveless, densely adpressed golden-silky, the upper scai'cely 

 larger j heads 2-3-flowered j calyx 3-4 lin. long, silky ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse ; petals 4, rather fleshy, ovate-oblong, entire, half as long as 

 the calyx-lobes ; ovary puberulous at the apex. 



Coast Region : Bredasdorp Div. ; Kara River, Ecklon, 86, Pappe, 15 ! 



19. G. humilis (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv, 58G) ; an undershrub 

 up to 1 ft. high ; branches loosely pilose, slender, slightly spreading ; 

 leaves opposite, sessile, herbaceous, oblong, acute at both ends, 3-6 



long, 1^-2 

 more numerous and persistent longer on the margins, obscurely 

 1-nerved; flowers geminate and terminal or solitary in the upper- 

 most axils ; calyx pilose outside ; tube 3 lin. long, oblong beloNv, 

 rather widely funnel-shaped above ; lobes 1 lin. long, ovate ; petals 4, 

 membranous, ovate, half as large as the lobes ; anthers much 

 longer than broad ; ovary ovoid, hairy at the top ; style as long as 

 the calyx-tube; stigma capitate. Bohis d- Wolley-Dod in Trans. 

 S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 316. 



South Africa : wihout locality, B^ryias ! 



Coast Region : Cape Div. : Table Mcuntain, EcMon, 89, BoIhh^ 4497 I and in 

 Herh, Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1354! lower plateau, Wolhy-Dod, OTJ ! Simons Bay, 

 WtiyJit, 36 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; mountains of Lowrys Pass, Burv 



im. 



lin. wide, pilose, hairs fugacious 



on the surface, 



Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Sddechtcv, 7398 ! 



•hell, 8210! 



20. G. juniperifolia (Lam. Encycl. ii. 765) ; a shrub turning 

 blackish when dry, entirely glabrous ; branches slightly angular, 

 leaf-scars conspicuous ; leaves scattered, linear-subulate, 5-6 Hn. 

 long, plano-convex, smooth ; flowers terminal, solitary or more 

 frequently geminate, surrounded by a cluster of ordinary leaves ; 

 calyx glabrous, 3-4 lin. long ; tube dilated above ; lobes acute, 

 nearly as long as the tube. 



South Africa : without locality, Sonnerat, 



This is not the same as 

 xiv, 587, which is G. suhidata, Lam. 



la described by MeLiuer in DC. Prodr, 



4 



21. G. Subulata (Lam. Encycl. ii. 765) ; a shrub about 1 ft. high, 

 ich-branched ; branches 4-5 in. lorn/, rlividorl at th^ nnox. nube- 



slightly 



long, 



upper surface^ convex on the back, scattered, 5-6 lin, ., ^, 

 glabrous ; flowers 2-3, terminal, scarcely as long as the bracts ; 



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