^4 TIIYMEL^ACE.E (Wright). [G7ddicL 



South Airica : without locality, Mvnd I ^ 



Coast Region : Swelleudatu Div. ; Swellendain mountains, Pappe.li \ George 

 Dlv. ; near George^ Tyson, 3010 ! and in MacOican <t Bolus, Herb. Xurm, Austr:-^ 

 Afr 978 ^ lior/ers, 4293 ! J}rej€\ m the forest near Touw River, Barchellj 5714 1 

 Kaysna Div.; near Kuy.-sua, Bolus, 2443! 3714! Newdirjate, 71! Humaiisdorp 

 Div. ; forest at Elands lliver, Zitzikamma, 500 ft., Galpin, 4529! 



48. G. Leipoldtii (C. H. Wright); much-branched; branches 

 diffuse, spreading, slender, pubescent when young, finally glabrous 

 aad with prominent leaf-scars ; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute, 

 7 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, densely adpressed-silky on both sides, 

 1-3-nerved below ; flowers 2-6 at the ends of the branchlets ; calyx 

 densely tomentose ; tube 7 lin. long, slightly ribbed, inflated below, 

 subcylindrical above; lobes oval, 1^ lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 8, 

 -i' lin. long, antherdike, but not very thick, enmrginate ; anthers as 

 ion<^ as the petals, but narrower, obtuse ; ovary ovoid, hairy at 

 the top; style filiform, 5 lin. long; stigma clavate. 



Central Region ; Calviuia Div. ; Nieu\voudt\ine, Willems Ru'er, and Bokk>- 

 veldt Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., Leipohlt, 882 ! Somerset East Div. ; on mountain 

 sides near Somerset Eastj 4000 ft., BoiuSj 1764 ! 



49. G. nitida (Bolus) ; a diffusely branched shrub ; branches 

 slender but rigid, at first hirsute, soon glabrescent, obscurely tetrn- 

 gonous, leaf -scars small l>ut prominent ; leaves opposite, congested 

 at the ends of the branches, oval, rounded or subacute, 3 lin. long, 

 1 lin. wide, at first adpressed-silky, finally glabrous, margins inflexed 

 above, obscurely 3-nerved ; flowers in pairs at the ends of the 

 branches ; calyx densely silky outside, yellow [Bolus) ; tube 7 lin. 

 long, inflated below, narrowly fuiuiel-shaped above ; lobes 2 lin. 

 long, 1^ lin. wide, subacute; petals 8, anther-like, l^ lin. long, 

 obtuse ; anthers linear, | lin. long, obtuse ; ovary compressed, 

 glabrous ; style filiform, 4 lin. long ; stignia penicillate. 



Western Regiox : Little Namaqualand ; in stony places near Ookiep, 3200 ft., 

 Bolus, in Bolus d: MacOwaUj Herb. Norm. Austr.'Afr,^ G89 ! 



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50, G» Meyeri (ileisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 443) ; branches slender, 

 terete, glabrous, ascending, leaf-scars distant, not very prominent ; 

 leaves sessile or subsessile, alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute, 4-6 lin. 

 long, 1 Hn. wide, glabrous, nerves inconspicuous ; heads terminal, up 

 to 8-flowered; calyx 8-12 lin. long, yellow [Meisncr)^ glabrous; 

 tube slightly widened upwards ; lobes 2i lin. long, 1 li 



petals 



'^ slightly 



hairy"; upper anthers exserted; ovary oblong, hairy at the apex; 

 style nearly as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate. Drege, 

 Zwei PJl, Documente, 95 ; Meisn. tn Da Frodr. xiv. 588. 



Vau. ^, pilosa (C. H. Wright) ; receptacle pilose ; ca!yx-lol.es slightly hahy 

 outside. 



Central Region: Calvinia Div.; Nleuwoudtvllle, Zeipoldt in Herb. Bolus, 

 13337 ! Murraysburg Div, ! near Murraysburg, 4300 ft., Tt/son, 345 ! 



