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Gnidia.^ 



TllYMEL.'EACE.E (Wright). 



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Eastern Region : Griqualand East! near Fort Donald, 5000 ft., Ti/sun 

 Natal ; ou grassy slopes, Tuauda, Wood, 153 ! 755 ! near Piuewood, 

 Zululaud ; Ingotye, Wood ! and without precise locality, 4000-5000 ft., 

 in Herb, Wood., 90 H ! 



1G39 ! 

 Woodl 

 W^jUe, 



41. G. Banrii (C, H. AVriglit) ; a diliase underslirub ; Lraiieheis 

 slender, Aveak, pilose at first, leaf-scars small but promiaciit; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, 6 lin. loug^ 1| ]in. wide, adprcssed- 

 silkj on the undersurface, glabrous above; flowers geminate, at the 

 ends of the branches ; calvx silky outride : tube 4 lin. lon^, ovoid 

 below, narrowly funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate, about 1 lin. lon^ 

 and 5' lin. wide, acute; petals 8, oblong, obtuse, J lin. long, rather 

 thick ; anthers shortly oblong, very small, the upper exserted on 

 short slender filaments ; ovary oblong, hairy at the top ; style 

 blender, shorter than the calyx-tube ; stigma small. 



Eastern Regio>'; Tembulaud; Bazeia Mountain, 3500 ft., Bam\ 732 ! 



42. G, stellatifolia (Gandog. in Bull. Soe. Bot. iVance, Ix. 417, 

 1913); pubescent, subincanescent ; branches virgate, 2 ft. lon^ ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, not or obscurely nerved, the lower 



erect: 



^ upper verticillate, spreading-stellate, keeled on the back ; 

 inflorescence capitate, involucrate ; flowers shorter than the leaves ; 

 calyx-lobes ovate, adpressed-tomeutose outside, yellow. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Piuetown, Wood^ 64S9, 



Differs from G, nodHora. Meisn., in the indumentum, the obscurely 3-nerved 

 patent iijtper leaves and the calyx being less hairy outside. 



43, G. Sparsiflora (Bartl. ex Meisn. in Linn;ea, xiv. 462); a 

 shrub, 1 ft. or more high ; branches few, suberect, branched at the 

 ape 



acute, subhirsute when 



X 



leaves alternate, subimbiicate, adpressed, linear-lanceolate, 



finally 



glabrous, 3 lin. long, 



young, ^ 



attenuate at the base ; flowers solitary in the axils of the congested 

 upper leaves ; calyx 6 lin. long, silky-tomentose ; tube filiform ; 

 lobes a quarter as long as the tube, bi'oadly ovate, subacute ; petals 

 8, membranous?, oblong, glabrous, one-third as long as the calyx- 

 lobes. Jleisn, in DC Prodr. xiv. 591. 



Coast Region : George Div. ; Outeniquaj iclthout collector a name. 



44. G. nodiflora (^Meisn. in Linmea, xiv. 458, inch var. verticiUata) ; 

 an undershrub, up to 1 ft. high, branched from the base ; branches 

 erect, terete, densely pilose above, glabrous below, leaf-scars not 

 prominent ; leaves alternate, ' subopposite or verticillate, linear- 

 oblong, acute, rarely obtuse, 3-6 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, usually flat, 

 at first densely hairy, glabrescent ; flowers in sessile terminal or 

 axillary clusters; calyx densely silky outside; tube '1^ lin. long, 

 inflated below; lobes ovate, acute, f lin. long, J lin. wide; petals 8, 



linear, half as 



long 



as the calyx-lobes ; anthers 1 



lonir. 



