78 THYMEL/EACEiE (Wright). [Lasiosijplion. 



18. L. hoepfnerianus (Yatke ex Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 268) ; 



■stems many from a woody rootstock, at first densely pilose, soon 

 glabrovis ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute, 6 lin. long, 1 lin. T^^ide, 

 at first silky J midrib prominent beneath ; involucral leaves ovate, 

 4-5 lin. long, 2-2^- lin. wide, densely silky; heads terminal, 

 peduncled, many-flowered ; calyx densely silky outside; tube about 

 •9 lin. long ; lobes obovate, l|-2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, yellow ; petals 

 membranous, oblong, obtuse, -|- lin. long ; anthers linear, obtuse, 

 f lin. long ; ovary oblong ; style shorter than the calyx-tube ; 

 stigma capitate. Pearson in Dyer, Fh Trop, Afr. vi. i. 233. 

 Gnidia hoepfneriana, Gilg in Jahrh. xix- 2G8 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PL Welw. i. 925, parti)/, 



Kalahari Regiox ; Transvaal ; Vereeniging, Leslie ! 



This may be only an extreme form of L. Krausrii, Meku. 

 Also in Tropical Africa, 



Imperfectly known species. 



19. L. macranthus (Gandog. in Bulb Soc. Bot. France, Ix. 418, 



1913); branches virgate, pubescent or laxly pilose, green; leaves 

 straight, not imbricate, oblong-ovate, mucronulate, slightly attenuate 

 below, nerved, rather lax, about 2 lin, wide, glabrous above, pube- 

 . scent beneath; flowers capitate; calyx about 15 lin. long; lobes 

 yellow when dry, elliptic-obovate. 



Coast Region : Riversdale Div. ; Lange Berg Range, SchkcJUer, 1904. 

 Xear Z. anthylloldes, Meisn. 



20. L. oblongifolius (Gandog. in Bull. vSoc. Bot. France, Ix. 418, 



1913); a divaricately branched woolly undershrub ; leaves narrowly 

 oblong, acute, nerved ; flowers capitate, blackish when dried ; calyx 

 nearly 10 lin, long, tomentose outside, glabrous within, whitibh. 



Coast Rkgion : Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, Laidley, B, S. C. A. 

 Herb. 4S5. 



This is said to resemble a large form of Z, anthijUoldes, Meisn. 



X. ENGLERODAPHNE, Gilg. 



Flutters hermaphrodite, 4-inerous. C(xlyx subcylindrical, coloured, 

 glabrous ; tube slightly constricted below the middle, not articu- 

 lated ; lobes patent. Petals bipartite, rather fleshy, shorter than 

 the calyx-lobes. Stamens 8, the upper slightly exserted; anthers 

 with inconspicuous connective. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, 

 style excentric. 



DisTiUB, A single species extending to Tropical Afiica. 



1. E. leiosiphon (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 274) ; a shrub, up to 

 10 ft. high (Galpin), subscandent {Sim), glabrous, internodes up to 

 1 in. long ; leaves opposite, very shortly petioled, ovate-oblong, up 



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