

Prn/^a.] pen.^ace.e (Stephens). 87 



shorter and wider than the leaves, sessile or contracted into a short 

 .stalk, outer lanceolate or hastate, inner cordate or cordate-auri- 

 culate, acuminate-acute, deciduous ; bracteoles linear or linear^ 

 lanceolate, acuminate-acute, with a membranous fimbriate mavizuu 

 deciduous; perianth 3—i lin. long; tube OA^ate-cylindiic, twice as 

 long as the limb ; lobes deltoid, acute ; ovary glabrous ; style topped 

 by 1 flat oblong cruciform lobes, with a wing decurrent horn each. 

 Lam, III. i, 317, and Enrycl, vi. 541 ; not of Kranss or Meisnrr ; 

 A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xW. 48-^. 



South Africa : without locality, Mund & Mnlre ! Roxhurgh ! Qaeinziiis f 

 Coast Region : Stelleiiboscli Div. ; arouutl Somerset West, EcJdon S: Zfj/hev, 2 ! 

 Swellendam Div. ; banks of the Zondereinde River, near Appels Kraal, ELsteeiis, 

 and neighbouring mouutaiuS; Zei/her I Uitenhage Div.j ZeyhcTj 62 ! 



6. P. acutifolia (A. Juss. in Ann. Sc. itfat. 3""* sen vi. 22); an 

 erect much-branched undershrub, 1~2 ft. high ; branches glabrous ; 

 leaves erect or spi^eading, linear-lanceolate or ellipticalj acute at the 

 base, very acute at the apex, dorsal nerve usually prominent, 12-13 

 lin. longj 2^-1 lin. broad, passing suddenly into bracts at the a|)ex 

 of the flowering shoot; stipules 2, very minute, auriculate, with 

 the apex continued up into a subulate point ; set;e 2-3 in tlie axil 

 at each side of the leaf ; bracts shorter and wider than the leaves, 

 sessile or contracted into a stalk, ovate or rhomboid, acuminate- 

 acute, deciduous ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acu- 

 minate-acute, with a membranous fimbriate margin, deciduous ; 

 perianth 3-4 lin. long; tube not or scarcely exceeding the limb; 

 lobes subulate, deltoid-acuminate ; ovary glabrous ; style topped by 

 4 flat oblong cruciform lobes, with a Ming decurrent from each. 

 A,Da in DO, Prodr. xiv. 485. 



. SonTH Africa: without locality; Thnnhergl Mund & Maire I Burmannl 



Coast Kegiox : George Div. ; Cradock Berg and other mountains near Geor^'e, 

 Ih-ege, 8155b (partly) ! Barchdl, 5913: 6018! Ahxandcrl Bowie \ Galpin, ij^2 I 

 Bolus, 8691 ! Montague Pass, Penthrr, 1601 ! 



7. P. fruticulosa (Linn. f. Suppl. 121); a small, much-branched 

 undershrub, J-U ft. high; branches erect or decumbent, glabrous 

 or sparsely scabrous ; leaves equally distributed, erect or suberect, 

 sessile or narrowed at the base into a very short stalk ; dorsal nerve 

 obscure except at the extreme base ; lower leaACS obovate, some- 

 times orbicular, obtuse to subacute.; upper obovate or orbicular to 

 elliptical, ovate or rhomboidal, obtuse to subacute or acute, 3-U 

 lin. long, U-| lin, broad; stipules 2. minute, awldike or gland- 

 Hke ; two groups of several short set?e in the axil at each side of 

 the leaf ; setie in the axils of the upper leaves, bracts and bracteoles 

 usually persistent, setje of the bracteoles forming a circlet on the 

 apex of the pedicel; bracts of the form and size of ordinary foliage 

 leaves ; bracteoles 6 or 4 to each flower, outer pair semicoriaceous, 

 inner scarious, ovate or obovate, cuspidate-acute, margin entire or 

 fimbriate, U-2 lin. long, 1-1 1- lin. broad, deciduous; perianth 



