74 



THYMELiEACE^ (Wl'igllt). 



\Lasiosi])hon. 



& Bolus, Herb, Austr,-Afr,, 122S ! Natal; near Newcastle, Wilms, 2251! Weeiien 

 County, Wood, 3446 ! 



Meisner's two varieties cannot be maintained. The pubescence on the iavoliicral 

 leaves seema to be more or less deciduous and cannot, therefore, be relied upon as- 

 a varietal character. 



11. L. polyanthus (Gilg in 



Engl. 



Jahrb. xix. 2G5) ; an nnder 



shrub, more or less branched from the base ; branches rather stout^ 

 pilose at first, leaf-scars pi'ominent ; leaves alternate, oblong, oval 

 or ovate, acute, 15 liu. long, 6 lin. wide, 5-nerved, densely adpressed- 

 silky ou botli surfaces ; involucral leaves sunilar to the cauliue but 

 more densely silky ; heads terminal, sessile, up to 40-flo\vered ; calyx 

 spreadiiig-pilose outside; tube about 1 lin. long, slender, sub- 

 cylindrical ; lobes yellow, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong, 3 lin. l^»ng, 



H 



lin. wide; petals minute, oblong, 



antlicrs oblong, 



^, ^ lin. long ; 

 twice as long as the petals ; ovary oblong ; style slightly shorter 

 than the calyx-tube ; stigma capitate. GnuUn pohfrnttha, Gihjj he. 



Eastern Region: Griqualand East; Mount Carrie, 5000 ft., Ti/soUy 1586 f 

 Zuurberg, 5000 ft., Ttjs<m, 1563 ! 1849 ! Mount Malowe, T^son, 2130 ! teiuLuland ; 

 saddle between Iggakancu and Bazeia Mountains, 2500-3000 ft., Baur, 646 1 

 Natal; Dumisa Station, 2000 ft., Jiudatis, 425! Durban, Krausa, 368! Bothas 

 Hill, Ti^sonl Wood, 4420! Normandieu, Sim, 2933! Koodsberg, Wood, 115! 

 4135! 5277! Camperdown, Bekmann, 7848! Drakensberg Range, Bushmans 

 River, 6000-7000 ft., Fcaiis, 52! top of Mahwaga, 6000-7000 ft., £rans, 523 l 

 and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1392 ! 



1 



12. L. anthylloides (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 595, inch van 



milgaris) ; a shrub of variable habit ; branches at first densely 

 villous, leaf-scars small but prominent; leaves alternate, imbricate^ 

 lanceolate or oblong, adpressed-silky on both surfaces, ab<_)ut 6 lin. 



long 



am 



1 



lin. wide ; flowers in dense terminal sessile heads ; 



calyx-tube 1 2-1 5 lin. 



long, 



densely woolly outside, gradually 



senna anthh 



lloides 



widened upwards: lobes eUiptic, obtuse, 3 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; 

 petals minute and toothdike, or obsolete ; anthers oblong, obtuse^ 

 I lin. long; ovary oblong; style fiViform, nearly as long as the 

 calyx-tube; stigma capitate. BoL Mag/ L 7303; Sim.^For. FL 



Cajje Col. 302 ; Wood, Natal PL t. 270. _ 



Linn, /. SiqqjL 225; Thiinh. Prodr. 76, and FL Cap. ed. Scladt. 

 377; WiJcstr, in Vet. Acad. HandL Stoclh. 1818, 347 ; Bnge, Zicel 

 Pfl. Bocumente, 128, 143 ; Meisn. in Linnaea, xiv. 392, and in Jlooh 

 Land. Jonrn. ii. 551. I)(n> s ericea^Lam. Euryd. ii. 767. D. ardhjjl: 



A. 



Meisn. in BO. Prodr. xiv. u30, 



Mey. in BuJL Phys.-Mat. Acad^ 

 Gnidia tomentosa, ErltL ex Meisn. in BC* 



Ecl-L d Zeijli. ex 

 ^rfhrpsol en anthj lloides^ C. 

 Petersh, i. (1843) 359. 



Prodr. xiv, 596. G^jnr£3ii£m^]Vikstr. in VeL Acad UandL StorWi. 



1818, 317. 



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Var. ^, macrophylla (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. siv. 596); leaves oblong or oval- 

 oblong, obscurely 3-nerved, the upper densely silky on both sides^ the lower pilose, 

 up to 15 lin. long and 3 lin. wide. Passeri aa^ a nth ijlloides, var. macrophyU(^, 

 Mtisn. in Linnxa^ xiv. 393; Brlje, Zii-ei Pfl. Documente. 152, 154. 



