70 THYMEL^ACE.^ (Wright), [Lasiosijyhon. 



1. L, microphyllus (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 593) ; a dwarf 

 nndershrub, Lranched from the base; branches slender, rigid, 

 glabrous ; leaves alternate, rather distant, adpressed to the stem, 

 linear oblong, obtuse, glabrous, about 2 lin. long and ^ lin. wide ; 

 involucral leaves broadly ovate, acute, 3 lin. long, 1^- lin. wide, 

 pubcrulous ; flowers in terminal heads ; calyx-tube 7 lin. long, with 

 long silky hairs below, puberulous or glabrous above; lobes elliptic, 

 obtuse, 1| lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals small; anthers oblong; 

 ovary shortly stalked, ovoid, glabrous; style nearly as long as the 

 calyx-tube. Gnidm jnJcrophvUa , Meisn. in Linnsea^ xiv. 432 ; Drege^ 

 Ztcei Pfl. Documented 94, G, Kiintzei, Gilrj in 0. Kimtze, Buk Gen. 

 PL iii. ii. 280. 



South Afetca : without locality, Tysonl 



CE^•TKAL Region : Somerset Div. ; Somerset, Boivlitr, bQ\ 90 I Tarka Div. ; 

 Tarka River, 4500 ft., MacOivan, 1801! Richmond Div.; Bok Fontein, Burke, 

 511! Zei/her, 11S9! MicWelburg Div.; Middelburg Road, Kuntzel Colesberg 



Div. ; Colesberg, Sliaiv \ 



Western Region ; Little Namaqualaiid ; near the mouth of the Orange River, 



2. L. splendens (EndL Gen. PI Suppl, iv. ii. 67) ; a much- 

 branched shrub ; branches at first densely adpressed-silky, leaf -scars 

 small ; leaves alternate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, uj) to 

 nearly 12 lin. long and 3 lin. wide, densely clothed Avith adpressed 

 silvery silky hairs ; involucral leaves scarcely wider than the cauHue ; 

 flowers in ternihial sessile heads; calyx 8 lin. long, subcylindrical 

 slightly inflated above, densely silky outside, hairs longer in the 

 lower part ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2^ lin. long, -| lin, wide, rather 

 thick, yellow {Wood) ; petals i lin. long, ovate, membranous ; anthers 

 oblong, obtuse, \ lin. long ; ovary oblong, compressed, glabrous ; 

 style as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate. Meiaiu in DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. 595. GnUlia fipJendens^ Meisn, in Ltnnsea, xiv. 428; 

 Drcije^ Zicei Pji, Documente^ 159. 



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K.\LAHABT Region: TransVcaal ; near Lydeuburg, Wilms, 1207! Swaziland; 

 Hlatikulu, Miss Ste warty 2522 ! 



Eastern Regiox : Pondoland ; without precise locality, Badnnaiw, 904 1 

 Griquaknd East; Mouut Maluwe, 3500 ft., Tyson, 2056! and in Bulas & 

 MacOxvfm, Iltrh. Avstr.-Afr., 1229! Katal ; near Durban, Drejel Wood, 1141 

 Rooi Kopje?^ near Durban, Wood] near Unikomanzi River, Wood, 3159 I Pieter- 

 maritzburg, Wilms, 2243 ! Vrj^heid, Sim, 2921 ! 2931 ! near Colenso, Rthmann, 



Krantz Kloof, Wood, 1155! and without precise locality, Ge^rard, 207! 

 Zululand ; Ungoya, 1000-2000 ft., Wood, 5690 ! Umblatuzi, Sim, 2036 ! 



7187 ! 



3, L. canoargentea (C. H. AYright) ; a muclvbranclied sluuh ; 



branches densely adpressed white-silky when young, leaf-scars small 

 but prominent j leaves alternate^ oblong-lanceolate, 5 lin. long, 

 1^ lin. wide, acute, densely clothed (especially on the lower surface) 

 witli adpressed silvery hairs : involucral leaves twice as broad as 

 the cauline ; flowers many in a terminal cluster ; calyx pubescent 

 outside, with longer hairs below ; tube 6 lin. long ; lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, Ii lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals minutej tooth-like ; anthers 



