54: 



TIIYMEL.EACEiE (Wrigllt). 



IGnidia. 





ovate-lanceolate, up to 6 lin. long and 2| lin. wide, acute, glabrous, 

 3-nerved ; floAvers in terminal clusters ; calyx glabrous ; tube 5 lin. 

 long, slightly inflated below, widened above ; lobes ovate, acute, 

 1-^ lin, long, 1 lin. wide; petals 4, membranous, 1 lin. long, •§ lin. 

 wide; anthers ^-'lin. long, upper exserted on short thick filaments; 

 ovary oblong, compressed ; style as long as the calyx-tube, rigid ; 

 stigma penicillate. 



Coast Region : Komgha Div. ; grassy hills near Keimouth, Flanagan, 621 ! 

 Eastern IIegiox ; Trauskei ; graaey slopes, Kentani, 50 ft., Miss Pefjler, 32! 

 Pondoland ; grassy places between Umkwani and Omsakabo, T/json, 2636 ! 



Thif^ is at once distinguished from G.joriacea^ Meisn., by its branches being 

 erect and parallel, instead of divergent. 



24. G. coriacea (Melsn. in Liunu^a, xiv. 451); a much-branched 

 shrubj glabrous in all its parts ; branches short, divergent, slender, 

 terete, smooth, leaf scars inconspiciiou:3 ; leaves opposite, sessile, 

 ovate-oblong to nearly lanceolate, acute, submucronate, np to lui 

 long and 2| lin. ^ride, obtuse at the base, 1 -nerved on the 

 side, 3-5-nerved beneath, dark brown when dry; involucral leaves 

 slightly larger ; flowers 2-4 in terminal heads shorter than the 

 involucre; calyx glabrous; tube 4 lin. long, slightly widening 

 upwards, smooth ; lobes ovate-oblong, 1-^ lin. long, 1 lin. wide, 

 acute ; petals 4, subhyaline, elliptic, half as long as the lobes : 

 upper anthers exserted ; ovary ovoid, compressed, with a terminal 

 tuft oi hairs ; style excentriC; as long as the calyx-tube ; stigma capi- 

 tate. Drege, Ztcei Fji. Docamente, 135 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 586. 



_ a ovatcL, EchL d' Znjli, ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 586. 

 GniAin ^is coriacea ^Van TiegJi. in Bull. Soc.Bot. France^ xL(l893) 76. 



upper 



Coast Ekoiox : Unioudale Div. ; Long Kloof, between Avoutuur and the 

 sources of the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5040 ! Bolus, 2444 ! on a rocky lull 

 near Haarlem, Burchell, 5021 ! Uitenhage Div, ; Zuur Berg Kange, between 

 Enon and Drie Fontein, 2000-3000 ft., DreifcX Van Studens Berg, Ztyhcr, 37541 

 and \vitho\it precise locality, Zevher, 3551 Albany Div. ; Botha.s Hill; MucOddii, 

 191! 



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25, G. parviflora (Meisn. in Linnrea, xiv. 453) ; a much-branched 



1 



uudershrub, about 9 in. high, quite glabrous ; leaves opposite 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, flat, 5 lin. long, 1 lin, wide, midrib not very 

 conspicuous beneath ; flowers solitary or more rarely 2-4 together, 

 shorter than the leaves; calyx ghibrous, 3 lin. long; tube inflated 

 below, natrow above; lobes one-third as h>ng as the tube, ovate, 

 acute ; petal^s 4, membranous, small; anthers subglobose ; ovary 

 ovoid; style slightly exserted; stigma capitate. Meisn. in DJ - 

 Prodr, xiv, 588, incL var, dehiJis; Drege, Zwei PJl. Documente, 76. 

 G. lanceolafa and G^^j mlfifja l^ folia , var. lanceo7<d<ij LirJikust, ex 



Prodr. xiv. 588- Euihroxantha dehilijL EchL & Zeyh. 



VIF^lCinBulL Soc. Bot- 



i$n. in 

 ex Meisn, Lc. 



(hoTjsig Tonrvftlora 



1 



an 



France, xl, (1893) 76. 



Coast Regio>' : PiquetbergDIv. ; Pir^uet Eerg, 1500-3000 ft., Dre'je ex Meis^ner. 

 Caledon Div. ; on sides of mountains near Genadendal and Appeln Kraal by the 

 Zoadereinde Riverj Zeyher^ 1437b 1 



