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GO TiiYMEL.EACE.E (AYriglit). [Gnidia, 



38. G. scabra (Thunb. Prodr. 74) ; erect, shrubby, 1 ft. or move 



high ; branches subverticillate, at first pubescent, soon glabrous, 



leaf-scars small and proinint^t ; leaves alternate or subopposite, 



linear-lauceolate, acute, glabrous, about 3 lin. long and I. lin. wide ; 



flowers few, terminal or in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; calyx 



densely hairy outside, \vhite {Bolus); tube 4 lin. long, slightly 



inflated below, subcylindrical above, faintly ribbed ; lobes broadly 



ovate, about 1^ lin. long; petals 8, subulate, 1 lin. long; anthers 



^ lin. long, obtuse ; ovary compressed, hairy at the apex ; style 



excentric, nearly as long as the tube; stigma capitate. Tltiuib, iL 



Cap. ed. SrJndt. 380 ; Wihstr. in Vef. Acad. JIandl Siochh, 1818, 



313; Meisn, in IJnnsea, xiv. 460, awl in DC. Fr(*dT. xlv. 58o. 



^ _ _^ Belch rt- Znjh. ex Meisv, in DC. Vrodr, xiv. 585. 



Qn idiopsis scahra ^ Van Tipgh.in Ihtll.Sor. TioL France, xl.(lS03) 76. 



South AriucA; -vvitlioiit locality, niuilevfj, Thorn, 232! 270! Zryher, 3 496! 



Coast Rkgion : Worcester Div. ; Tafelberg, Ilex Paver, P<tpp€y 10! BoHh 

 58111 near Tovnvs Kiver, Bolus, ITerK Norm. Avstr.-Afr,, 1092! Swelleiiilani 

 Div. ; Tjet%Yeeii Koclimane Kloof and Gouritz River, Puppe, 10 ! 



Centbal Region : Ceres Div. ; between Hottentots Kloof and Karroo Poort, 

 Pearson, 4809! Verkerde Vley, Rchmnnn, 2848 ! Calviina Div. ; near stream-bed 

 lu plains on Roggeveld above Blaukrantz Pasa, 2500 ft., Pearson^ 4983 1 498o • 

 bed of Doom River, Pearsort, 3889! Karieboomfontein, 2500 ft., near dam, 

 Pearson, 4982 ! 



39. G. setosa (Wikstr. in Vet. Acad, Hanrll, Stockh. 1818, 



315); an erect shrub; branches terete, erecto-patent, glabrous; 

 leaves alternatej lanceolate, 4-9 lin. long, ^ lin. wide, acute or 

 pungent, 1- (or inconspicuously 3-) nerved, glabrous; flowers in 

 terminal clusters which elongate into spikes ; calyx silky outsiae? 

 densely so at the base; tube 3^- lin, long, subcylindrical ;^ lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, | lin. long, ^ lin. wide; petals 8, subulate, slightly 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes; anthers oblong, J^ lin. long; ovary 

 hairy at the apex ; style 3 lin, long ; stigma subcapitate. Meisn. 

 in Linn&ea, xiv. 447, and in DC Vr<^ilr. xiv. 590. Q. caledojW^ 



EchL d: Zcyh., and C^jtrida^ EcJcl it Zeyh. {parfly) in I)U. Vw^^^- 

 xiv. 590. Pa^He rina f>etom, Thuiih. Prodr, 75, and Fl Ca})^ ^'^• 



SchiU, 376. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Paardoberg, ThoaherQ, Caledon Div. ; motmtainj 

 between Zwartberg and Gaiize Kraal, Zruher, %li% ! Riversdale Div. ; without 

 precise locality. Rust, 146 ! 



^40. G- Woodii (C. II. Wright); erect; branches virgate, at first 

 with a few long hairs, soon glabrtms, leaf-scars small ; leaves 

 altei-nate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 10 lin. long, 1-U ^i"' 

 wide, acuminate, <[uite glabrous, 1-nerved ; fli.wiu's few at the apex 

 of the branches ; calyx hirsute outside, yellow {Wylie), tube 8 Un- 

 long, slightly inflated below, cylindrical above ; lobes ovate, 2 bi^- 

 long, I lin. wide, acute; petals 8, lance* Jate, thick, 1 lin. long? 

 ^ lin. wide ; anthers oblong, obtuse, | lin. long ; ovary oblong, 

 hairy at the apex ; style G lin. long ; btigma capitate. 



