1_ ■; ^ ^ C ^1 



Onidia.] tiiymel.eace.e (Wri^rjjt). 59 



petals 8, oblong, as long as the lobes ; anthers small ; ovary com- 

 pressed, glabrous; style 2h Hn. long; stigma capitate. Bolns tf' 

 WoUey-Dod in Trans, S, Afr. FhlL Soc. xlv. 316. 



Coast Eegion : Cape Div. ; by the Signal Statioa on Lions Mountain near 

 Cape Town, Wolley-Dod, 2928 ! 



This species much resembles Arthr osolen laxuSj E. Meyer. 



37. G. polystachya (Berg. Descr. PI. Cap. 123) ; a shrub, 1-4 ft. 



liigh, of variable habit ; branches sometimes long and simple, at 

 others short and corymbosely or racemosely arranged, pilose when 

 young, leaf-scars small, but rather prominent ; leaves alternate, 

 closely placed^ linear-lanceolate, subacute, 4 lin, long, i lin. wide, 

 1 -nerved, flat or slightly keeled, quite glabrous ; flowers in clusters 

 of 6-00 at the ends of the branches; calyx pilose; tube 3 J lin. 

 long, narrowly ovoid and strongly ribbed in the lower half, narrowly 

 funnel-shaped above j lobes ovate, obtuse, II lin. long, | lin. wide; 

 petals 8, half as long as the lobes, anther-like, shortly stalked, 

 emarginate : anthers h lin. long ; ovary oblongs compressed, hairy 

 at the apex; style of variable lenirth; stigma capitate. ThunK FL 

 Cap. ed. SchulU 380 ; BoL Mcvj. t 8001 ; Gard, Chron. 1907, xli. 294, 



Jig. 120. G^^carinafa^ Thunh, Prodr, 76; WUcstr, in Fef. Acad, 



Handl Sfochh 1818, 31i! ; Meisn. in DC, Prodr. xiv. 588 ; Bolus & 

 WoUeijDod in Trans. S. Afr, Phil Soc, xiv. 316. 

 WendL Beohaclit. 15, t, 2, ffj, 11, not Linn. G, simphx^ Andr. Bat 

 Bep, L 70; Drege^ Zwei PJl, Documente, 30, 1*23; Herb. Amat. ii. 

 128. G^J mberhiSj Dry, in Ait. Hort. Kctv. ed. 2, ii. 412; Bot. Mag, 

 t. 1463; Lodd. Bot, Cab. t, 1958. Tliymelinn simplex , Hoffmauseggy 

 Ver retell, 198. Daphne sgu arrosal Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 358? 



TTaiiuai 



Innnehea cajji lata] ' Laniuylnosa, folus a'eherrimis, etc., Bnrm. PI. Afr, 



Bar. T3477rT9, ^/z//. 1 (flowers drawn as pedicelled). 



• Var. i3j congesta (C. H. Wright) ; habit much more dense than in the type ; 



flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, Ies:5 distinctly capitate ; calyx 3 lin. 

 long. 



South Afkica : without locality, Thunberg, Thorn, 49 ! 



Coast Reoiox: Cape Div. ; Bosky Dell, near Simonstown, BofUcin in Herb, 

 Wollcy-Dod, 870 ! Caledon Div. ; Hawston, SchUcldcr, 9465 ! Hermanuspieters- 

 fontein, Bolm, 9S42 ! Ilobertson Div.; Kochmans Kloof, 800 ft., Mund^ 15! 

 Riversdale Div, ; Platteboschj Muir in Herb. Galpin.y 5322! near Milkwood 

 Fontein, 600 ft., Galpin, ^524 ! Gysmans Hoek, Mu'iv, 500! Mossel Bay Div. ; 

 rocky and sandy hills near the landing place at Mossel Bay, BarcheU, 6291 : 

 BojerSj 4200! between Little Brak River and Hartenbosch, Barchell, 6218 1 

 Driefuntein and Mossel Bay, under 500 ft., Drege ! George Div. ; George, Bolm, 

 2441 1 Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartskops River, under 100 ft., Drege I valley and hills 

 of the Zwartkops River from Villa Paul Mare to Uitenhage, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 

 3771 I 3772 ! Redhouse, Mrs. Paterson, 2344 1 Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port 

 Elizabeth, Burchelly 4376 ! Algoa Bay, Fm^hes 1 Bathurat Div. ; at the source of 

 the Kasuga River, BurchcU, 3907 ! between Kaluga River and Port Aifred, 

 Burchdl, 3965 ! mouth of the River Kowie, MacOican, 835 ! Albany Div. ; 

 Grahamstown, Misses Dahj & Sole, 506 ! Kockcliffe near Sidbury, Miss Daly, 

 787 ! and without precise locality, Zeyhcr^ 904 ! 



KALAHAra Rkgiox : Var. 5 : Orange River Colony ; Mont aus Sources, 9500- 



11000, Flanagan, 2023 ! Evans, 761 ! 



