GnidicL] tiiymel.eace.i: (Wright). 65 



Western Kkgion : Little Namaqiialand ; between Uitkomst and GeelLuks 

 Kraal, 2000-30Q0 ft., Brege I Eiet Kloof near Bowesdorp, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 

 11181 ! near Vanrhynsdorp, 2000 ft., Leipohlt, 887 ! 



Eastern Region: Var. p: Pondoland ; without precise locality, Baclumniu 



51. G. multiflora (Bartl. ex Meisn. in Linniea, xiv. 462); an 

 erect subshrub, about a span high, densely branched above ; branch- 

 lets silky-pilose ; leaves alternate, subimbricate, erect, linear, sul)- 

 obtuse, slightly concave above, pilose, prominently 3-nervecI beneath, 

 upper slightly wider and more obtuse ; flowers 2-5, terminal ] calyx 

 'white-silky, 4-5 lin. long; lobes ovate, obtuse, scarcely 1 lin. long; 

 petals 8, membranous ?, lanceolate, subacute, yellow ; anthers in- 

 cluded. Meisn. in DC. Frodr, xiv. 591, 



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South Africa : without locality or collector's name. 



52, G, ovalifolia (Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 455); a tree up to 40 ft, . 



high (^Mudd) ; branchlets densely and patently pilose, cylindrical,, 

 internodes up to 2 in. long; leaves opposite, oval, acute, up to 2 in. 

 long and 1 in. wide, membranous, densely adpressed-hairy on both 

 surfaces ; petiole about 1 lin. long ; flowers in terminal leafless 

 ebracteate spikes ; calyx densely silky outside ; tube 4 lin. long, 

 almost cylindrical; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1\ lin. long; 

 petals 8^ membranous, linear ; anthers linear, ^ lin. long ; ovary 

 densely pilose at the apex ; style half as long as the calyx-tube ; 

 stigma subcapitate. Drege, Zicei Pfl, Dociuncnfe, 159 ; Meisn, in 

 BG, Prodr. xiv. 591 ; Wood, Natal PL t 248; Sim, For. FL Cape 

 CoL 300. Wil-striV m ia ova Ji folia , Decne in Jacqnem. Voy. Bot. 146. 



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Coast Eegion : British Kaffraria ; Dontsah, Sim, 2208! 



Kalahari Region : Tiansvaal ; Mac Mac, Muddl 



Eastern Eegion : Transkei ; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 166 ! Tembuland ; Engcoba 

 Mountain, 4000 ft., Flanagan, 2171 \ Henhell Griqualaud East; by streams in 

 woods on the Zunrberg Range, 3000 ft., Tyson, 1775 ! Natal ; Umzimkulu River, 

 amongst bushes and in plantations near the mouth of the ri\^er, Drege ! Durban, 

 Gueinzius ! Inanda, Wood, 332 ! 501 ! 5021 ! and without precise locality, Gcrvard, 

 328! 



'' Uhloso'' of the Kaffirs iHcnkd), 



53. G, imbricata (Linn. £. Suppl. 2'2b) ; a dwarf much-branched 

 shrub; branches slender, at first puberulous ; leaves oval or oblong, 

 about as long as the internodes, 5 lin. long, 1-1 ^ lin. wide, obtuse, 

 canescent, at length glabrous, distinctly 3-nerved; flowers few in 

 terminal heads ; calyx densely hairy outside ; tube 6 lin. long, with- 

 out a differently coloured basal area, subcylindrical, ribbed j lobes 

 oval, rounded at the apex, \h lin. long, 1 hn. wide; petals 8, more 

 than half as long as the lobes ;" anthers f lin. long ; ovary compressed, 



lin. long ; style exeentric, filiform ; stigma subcapitate. WiJcstr. 



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