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88 PEN.^ACE^ (Stepliens). [Pemea. 



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11-2^ lin. long, subcampanulate ; tube cylindrical, slightly exceeding 

 the limb; lobes deltoid-acute or acuminate ; ovary scabrous; style 

 topped by 4 flat oblong cruciform lobes, angled beneath each lobe. 

 Thunb. Prodr. 30, and FL Cap, ed. SehdL 149; Lam. Ennjd. \L 

 540 ; E. Meyer inBrhje, Zrcei Pfl. Documente, 112, 210 ; Knttiss In 

 F/ora^ I845j 77. Stylapierus fruticuloms, A, Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 3"'* ser, vi. 23; A.DC, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 48G, excl, car. 



Soi;th Africa: without locality, Sfarrmm^ 19! 34! in Hvrh, Zinn^usl 

 Burmaun] Ma&son in Herb. Lambert, 8686! Lichten stein \ Roxhurghl Mund X- 

 Mairel Dregel Boivhil Zeyher^ 4750 I Wallichl 



Coast Regiox : Cape Div, ; Simons Bay, Wrightl Alexander \ Bolvml dune^ 

 in the neighbourhood of False Bay and fable Eay, ScJdechter, 805 ! Reyiwvld \ 

 ZcyJm* ! Drl-^e, 112 ! Berlins, 327 ! Sandy Flats near Riet Vlei, Thunberg ! Vyge- 

 kraal Farm, Wollci/^Dod, 978 ! Cape Flats, FrUov, 624 ! Wolky-Bod, 1341 ! 

 Burchell, 161 ! 718! Borne I East slopes of Table Mountain near Con.-stantia, 

 Zei/her, 242 1 1481 ! Eeklon & Zeyher, 3 1 Caledon Div. ; on stony hills at Giabouvr 

 and near Palmiet River, Boltis^ 4189 ! 



8. P. candolleana (E. L. Stephens in Kcw Bulletin, 1911, 358); 



an undershrub, about 1 ft, high, *' alpine^ procumbent on the rocks " 

 (Niven) ; lower parts ^vith a reddish bark, defoliated ; leaves close- 

 ranked on the upper parts,, erect or more often spreading, narrowed 

 at the base into a short petiolej elliptical, obtuse to acute, usually 

 with a slight central furrow beneath, 3-4 lin. loni:^) l-li hri. broad, 

 exstipulate ; a few minute brown setae in the axils at each side or 

 leaves, bracts and bracteoles ; bracts of the form and size of ordinary 

 foliage leaves, persistent ; bracteoles 2, deciduous, rarely seen, 

 leaving a scar on each side of the apex of the pedicel, elliptical or 

 lanceolate, with a coriaceous centre and membx'anous margin, 

 shoi'ter than the bracts; perianth narrowly cylindric-ovate, 3^-4 

 lin. long ; tube twice as long as the limb ; lobes deltoid, acuminate ; 

 style topped by 4 flat oblong cruciform lobes, angled beneath each 

 lobe. 



South Africa : without locality or collector's name in Herb, Be Candolle ! 

 Coast Regiox : Stellenbosch Div. ; Stelleiibosch, Niven (Eritissh Musevim) ! 



9. P. ericoides (EndL Gem Suppl. iv. ii. 73); an erect much- 

 branched unclershrub, 1-2 ft. high, of heathlike habit ; branches 

 glabrous or sparsely scabrous ; leaves close-ranked, equally dis- 

 tributed, erect or spreading, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acute, acerose, 

 with a narrow central channel beneath, dorsal nerve obscure, 

 2i-4 lin. long, -j— I lin. broad, exstipulate; bundle of short browai 

 set?e in the axil at each side of the leaf, and in the axil of bracts 

 and bracteoles ; bracts of the form and size of ordinary foliage- 

 leaves, persistent ; bracteoles 2 (?), very caducous, seen only in the 

 young buds, leaving a scar on each side of the apex of the pedicel, 

 linear-lanceolate, leathery, not channelled beneath, about |-^- the 

 length of the leaves ; perianth cylindric-ovate, 3^-4 lin. long ; tube 

 8-ribbed, hardly exceeding the limb ; lobes linear-deltoid or subulate, 

 acuminate; ovary scabrous ; style topped by 4 flat oblong cruciform 



