58 TiTYMEL^ACE.E (Wright). [Gnidia, 



outside; tube 

 lobes elliptic, 

 minute, rauch smaller 



at the apex of the branches ; calyx adpressecl-silky 

 2 J lin. long, ovoid below, funnel-shaped above; 

 1-^ lin. long, |- lin. wide, acute; petals 8, minute, 

 than the anthers ; anthers oblong, -J lin. long, obtuse ; ovary com- 

 pressed, glabrous; style excentric, filiform, nearly as long as the 

 calyx-tube ; stigma penicillate. "• 



South Africa : without localityj Iln-h. Calcy in llerl. Kew ! 



This much resembles G. pnrvulay "Wolley-Dod, but differs in the small petals. 

 A note on the sheet states that it agrees with a specimen in the Berlin Herbariunij 

 collected on Table Mountain by Bergius, 



34, G. obtusissima(Meisn. inLinnsea^xiv. 432) ; branches virgate, 

 pilose when young, leaf-scars pvoniinentj ratlier distant ; leaves 

 opposite, oLIong-lanceoIate, obtuse, 4 lin. long, ^-\.\ lin. wide, 

 coriaceous, convex or complicate, glabrous, midrib pruuiinent 

 beneath; involucral leaves rather longer, ovate; calyx pubescent 

 outside ; tube G lin. long, slightly widened upwards, ri]>bed ; lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1-| lin. wide ; petals 8, half as long as the 

 lobes, obL^ng, obtuse, rather fleshy ; anthers oblong, acute, 1 hn. 

 long. Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv» 589. G. (Uchotoma, Gilg in Engh 

 Jahrh, xix. 264, and in Engl. & Prantl, PJlanzenfam. iii. 6 A, 227. 

 fi. ohhm foJjji, BartL ex Meisn, in Linnwa, xiv. 4G1. Gnidiops^j ^ 

 ohfusissima. Van Tiegh, in BuIL Soc. Bot, France, xl. (189S) 76~ 



Coast Regiox : Caledon Div. ; HaugkHp, 3000-4000 ft., Mund & Mairc ! near 

 Caledon, 3000-4000 ft., ErHon 1- Zeijhcr, 97 ex Meisner. Kny.sna Div. ; near 

 Bitou River, Burchell, 5297 ! Uitenliage Div, ; between Sunday River and 

 Coega River, Zeyher ex Meisner. 



Western Region; Little Namaqualand ; Roodeberg, 3000-4C00 ffc., I>Tege, 

 7359, €x Meisuti , 



35. G. ericoides (C. H. Wright); a dwarf heath-like shrub; 

 branches erect, stout, at first pubescent ; leaves opposite, approxi- 

 mate, linear-oblonp:, 3 liu. long, ^ lin. wide, obtuse, slightly pubescent 

 at first, soon quite glabrous ; flowers clustered at the ends of the 

 branches; calyx adpressed-silky outside; tube 6 lin. long; ovoid 

 below, contracted at the middle, funnel-shaped above, strongly 

 ribbed; lobes ovate, acute, 2 lin. long, 1^ lin. wide; petals 8, 

 anther-like, ublong, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers \ hii* 

 long, obtuse; ovary ovoid, hairy at the apox; style filifonii, 3 lia- 

 long ; stigma penicillate. 



CoAsr P.Eaiox; Riversdale Div. ; Ty^^erfuntein, COO ft., Gal^ua, 4523 ! 



36. a. parvula OVoliey-Dod in Journ, Bot. 1001, 401); dwarf, 

 branched from the base ; branches up to 4 in. long, virgate, glabrous ; 

 leaves alternate or subopposite, loiiger than the iuternodes, sessile 



or 

 1-; 



irect, narrowly lanceolate, acute 

 A— 1 lin. wide; flowers 6-8 in 



cluster; calyx sparingly hairy outside; tube 4 lin. long, ovoid 

 below, cylindrical above, slender ; l(jbe5 ovate, obtuse, 1 lin. long; 





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