J 



66 THYMEL^ACE^ (Wriglit). [Gniclia. 



in Lir}neea, xx. 208; Meisn. in LinriBea, xiv. 437, and in DG. Prodr. 

 xiy. 584 (inch vars, genuina and incana), G. incana ^EcliL d Zeijlt, ex 

 Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xlv. 585. 



Coast Rkglon : Clanwilliam Div. ; Laage A^allei, under 1000 ft., Dreyel 

 Zeylier, 15 1 1497 ! Schlechter, 8040 ! Zandveld, Leipoldt, 848 I Piquetberg 

 Div. ; Piqueniers Kloof, Zeyhcr, 3763! Cape Div. ; Cape Town, Mrs. Faterson, 



781 



54, G, caniflora (Meisn. in Linnpea^ xiv. 440) ; branches slender, 

 short, erect, at first tonientose, smooth ; leaves alternate or sub- 

 opposite, oblong or lanceolate^ obtuse, 4—5 lin. long, 1-1 i Ini. wide, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, margins involute, nerves not conspicuous ; 

 clusters 2-4-tlowered, terminal or subterminal ; calyx pubescent 

 outside; tube 7 lin. long, slightly widened above, ribbed; lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, about 1 lin. long, glabrous inside, long-pilose outside ; 

 petals 8, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, lanceolate; anthers 

 oblong, J lin. long; ovary compressed, glabrous; style excentric, 

 filiform, 5 lin. long ; stigma peuieillate. Dreye, Zicei PJl. Docu- 

 mented 71 ; Meisn. in DC, Prodr. xiv. 585. G. taxifoUa^ EcJd. & Zeijli. 

 ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 585. 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsclorp Div. ; Giftberg, Drege. Swellendam Div. ; 

 Gouritz River, EcJchn d: Zcyher, 23! Riversdale Div, ; near Riversdale, 600 ft., 

 Bolus, 11369! 



55. G, inconspicua (Meisn. in Linnsea, xiv. 433); dwarf, much- 

 branched ; branches short ; branchlets divaricate, adpressed strigil- 

 lose when young, leaf-scars prominent ; leaves decussate, approxi- 

 mate, spreading or reflexed, oblong, subacute, 2-5 lin. long, 1-3 lin. 

 wide, at first adpressed pilose, glabrescent, flat ; flowers gemi- 

 nate ; calyx silky-villous, 4-5 lin. long ; lobes narrow, subobtuse, 

 lilac; petals 8, membranous, white. Meisn. in DC, Pntdr. xiv. 



582. 



South Africa : without locality, Drege, 7349. 



56. G. Francisci (Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xvi. 399) ; 

 an undershrub about 9 in. high, sparingly branched from the base ; 

 branches tetragonal, simple or with a few^ branches, slender, at first 

 pilose, soon becoming glabrous j leaves opposite, erect, lunger than 

 the internodes, subulate, acuminate, 4^ lin, long, ^ lin. wide, 

 channelled above^ convex beneath, with a deciduous terminal tuft 

 of hairs ; heads terminal, about 5-flowered ; bractn shorter and 

 wider than the leaves, silky; calyx silky outside, cream-coloured 

 (Bolus) ;■ tulie 6 lin. long, ovoid in the lower third, narrowly 

 funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate, acute, IJ lin. long, 1 lin. wide; 

 petals 8, lanceolate; 1 lin. long, 1- lin. wide, rather fleshy ; anthers 

 oblong, i- lin. long ; ovary ovate, compressed, with a conspicuous 

 terminal tuft of hairs; style filiform, 3 lin. long; stigma penicil- 

 late. 



