f M 



Gnidia.] Tiivmel^ace.e (Wrii^^ht). 57 



short hairs; ovary ovoid, compressed, hairy ; style lateral, vnrial)le 

 in length; stigma small. Pearson hi Df/f^r, FL Trap, Afr. vi. i. 222. 

 G. ITo l,sj!i, Gil(jf iuEiifjhJiihh. xix. 257^ jxtrfly ; far. kHimanfhcJfarlcn, 



Gilij in Emjl Pfl, Osl-A/r. C 283. 



Kalahari Region: Orange Free State; Harnsmith, Sanh)/, 224! Transvaiil ;. 

 summit of Saddleback Mnnntain, Barbertoii, 5000 ft., GaJpht, 1088! 

 Eastekx Kfg:ox : Natal; Tabamhlope, Wylie in Ihrh. Wood^ 10528! 



Also In Tropical Africa. 



31. G. racemosa (Thunb. Prodr. 76) ; a glabrous shrub, 2 ft. high ; 



branches sparse, long, green; branchlets filiform^ virgate, sub- 

 fastigiate, lax, short; leaves ovate, obovate or obovate lanceolate,. 

 5-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. wide, obtuse, glabrous, unequal, erecto- patent, 

 the lower larger, subpetiolate ; flowers racemose, axillary towards 

 the apex of the branches; calyx Inrsute, 5 lin. long; petals 8, 

 anther-like, glabrous, yellow ; anthers yellow, sessile. ThunK FL 

 Cap. ed. SchulL 380 ; WlMr. in Yet Acad. HandL StocJcL 1818, 315 ;. 

 Drcgcy Zxcei Pji. DocumcnfCj 102 ; Jfeisn. in Zinneea, xiv. 456, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 590. 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; Laauwskloof, under 1000 ft., Dre^je. 



32. G- linoides {Wikstr. in Yet. Acad. Ilandl. Stockh. 1818, 



316); plant up to 8 in. high, branched from the base; branches 

 very slender, glabrous ; leaves opposite, linear -subulate, 3 lin, long, 

 ^ lin. wide, acute ; flowers terminal, solitary ; calyx-tube pubescent, 

 2h lin. long, the lower third ovoid and firm^ the upper part long- 

 funnel-shaped and fleshy; lobes oblong, acute, 1^ lin. long, ^ lin- 

 wude, pubescent outside ; petals 4, bilobed, ^ lin. long ; anthers 

 oblong ; ovary oblong, ^ lin. long, hairy at the apex ; style nearly 

 as long as the calyx-tube. Drege, Zwei Pjl. Doenmenfe, 87 ; Metsn, in 

 Linnseay xiv. 449, and DC Prodr. xiv. 582, incL var. major ; Drege in 

 Linnsea, xx, 209 ; Bolus if Wulley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil, Soc. xiv. 

 316. Cahicoserislineajiifidia^ EcM. d: Zeuli* ex DreQc in Z//uia?cr,xx.209. 

 Gnidiopsis linoule SjJP'an T'leglu in BnlL Soc, Boi. France^ xl. (1893) 76. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher^ ^Q ; Earvey^ 421 ! 



Coast Region; Worcester Div. ; on the mountains above Worcester, Rdimann^ 

 2430! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Ih-egel French Hoek, 

 3000 ft., Schleckter, 9309 I Cape Div. ; by a s^vamp in Orange Kloof, IVoIIey-Dod, 

 2524 I Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 7243! Caledon 

 Div. ; Grietjesgat, near the Palmiet River, 700 ft., Bolus, 4192 ! on the shore of 

 the River Zondereinde, near Appelskraal, Zeyher, 3774 ! Riversdale Div. ; along 

 the river at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7042 ! 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; Pretoria, Btait-Dai-y, 685 ! Rustenberg, 



Miss Peyler, 977 I 



Meisner says that the type is herbaceous and the variety major suffruticose, but 



that his specimens of the latter are imperfect, 



33. G. Cayleyi (C. H. Wright) ; plant 2-8 in. high, woody ; 



branches straight, slender, pubescent; leaves opposite, elliptic- 

 oblong, acute, 31 lin. long, | lin. wide, glabrous ; flowers solitary 



