Gnidia,^ 



■ TIIY.MEL/EACE.E (AVrigllt) 



55 



Central REGIO^': Ceres Div. ; between WItzcuLerg Range and Skurfdeberg, 

 Zeijhtr, 1487 ! 



xiv. 451); an unc]cr:ilirub, 

 the base, rjuito f^labrous ; 



26. G, decurrens (Meisn. in Linn.-^^, 

 xinder 1 ft. high, Tnuoh-branched from 



branches ascending or slightly spreading, hearing very slender 

 obscurely 4-angled branchlets, loaf-scars rather prominent ; leaves 

 opposite, linear-lanceolate, 4 lin. lon<^, ^-1 Hn. wide, 



w * , acute^ 



ilat, l-nerved; flowers terininnl ; calyx glabrous; tube 2J lin. long, 



d lA lin. wide 



narrow at the very base, widely canipanulale 



;above; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, | lin. wide; petals 4, 

 membranous, half as long as the lobes ; anthers oblong, obtuse, \ lin. 

 long ; style as long as the calyx-tube ; stigma rather small, capitate. 

 Bvrrje, Zivel Tfl, Bocnmenie, ^^, 89 ; M^^'irn. in DC. Prodr, xir, 588 ; 

 -0. Kunfze, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 280; Bolus d WoUcyBod in 



. 316. 



ryyn 



Van Tiegh. 



Trans. S, Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 316. G. hiflora. 



awl Fl Cap. ed, ScJiulL 380? EpichroMnt hn hJ fnm^ Frll ,f- Zeyh. 



-ex Meisn. in BO. Prodr. xiv. 588. Gnidiopsis drci 



in Bull Soc. BoL France, xl. (1893) 76. 



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South Africa : without locality, Wallich ! Grey \ Forbes ! 



Coast Kegiox: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, BurcMl, 422! Rogers, 1072! 

 Drtge\ Wolley-Dod, 1726! Gajpin, 4520! Bolus, 41941 Fckloa tL Zeyher I 

 Cooper, 2296! Eed Hill, WvUey-Dod, 3020! Wvnberg, 800-900 ft., Mund, 111 

 Wollcy-Bod, 411 ! Devils Mountain, Pappe, 30 ! Breije, WiUis, 3583 1 Wolky-Dod, 

 All ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, SchlechUr, 7801 ! Kuntze ! Caledon 

 ■Div.: Houw Hoek, 900 ft., Phillips, 51! Albany Diw \ Grahamstown, Glasf^, 

 664 ! Jilisscs Daly d: Sole, 482 ! 



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27. G. Galpini (C, H. Wright) ; diffusely branched ; branches 

 -glabrous, reddish, wiry ; leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, 6 lin. \ong^ 1^ liii. wide, glabrous, punticulate below, 

 margins involute above ; flowers geminate at the apex of the 

 •branches ; calyx glabrous ; tube 3^ lin. long, cylindrical below, 

 rather widely funnel-shaped above ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 1| lin. long, 

 1 lin. wide ; petals 4, membranous, elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 

 ^ lin. wide, hyaline ; anthers shortly oblong, obtuse, h lin. long, the 

 upper exserted on short stiff filaments ; ovary oblong, compressed, 

 with a terminal tuft of hairs ; style as long as the calyx-tube, 

 wiry ; stigma penicillate. 



Coast Regiox : Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 4519 ! 



This resembles G. stvpheJioiden^ MeLsn., but diflfers in having a glabrous 



•calvx, 



28. G. pallida (Meisn. in Linn?ea, xiv. 442) ; branch nearly 

 1 ft. long ; branchlets nearly filiform, quite glabrous, internodes 

 1-2 lin. long, leaf -scars tooth-like ; leaves alternate, erect or slightly 

 spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, 4-6 lin. long, J-1 lin. wide, flat 

 •or with recurved margins, ashy -green, glabrous, l-nerved, upper 

 leaves nearly verticillate ; flowers surrounded at the base with 

 white hairs f calyx 6-7 lin. long, glabrous; tube slender, almost 



