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3504 ! ZeyJier, 4743 ! Dkls, 36 ! near Cape Town, Biirchell, 8403 ! Kloof and 

 other high places on Table Mountain, Ecklon & Zeijlter, 12 ! Devils Peak, Brege, 

 239! Bolus in Herb. Norm. Avstr.-Afr., 362! Bolus, 3293 ! Wollcij^Dod, 132" ' 

 Wihm, 3602a 1 



2. B, acutus (A. Juss, in Ann. Sc. N^at. 3"^^ ser. vi. 25) ; an 

 erect much-branched undershrubj about 1 ft, high ; branches 

 minutely scabrous, upper corymbose, lower defoliated ; leaves 

 imbricate towards the apex of the branches, sessile, widely ovate 

 to elliptical or obovate, acute to acuminate, glabrous, 3-3^ lin. 

 long, 1^-2 1 lin. broad, with 1-2 short setie sometinies present at 

 each side of the axil; stipules when present nnnute, wart-like or 

 subulate; flowers in groups of 1-6 at the top of the brauches ; 

 bracts all fertile, obovate, acuminate, somewhat smaller than the 

 leaves, tinged with red; bracteoles lanceolate, linear-spatliulate or 

 linear, acuminate, slightly longer than the bracts ; perianth 4^—8 

 lin. long, piuh, tube more deeply coloured than the lobes ; tul:'© 

 narrow cylindrical, in flowering longer than the bracts, 3-5 lin. 

 long, less than 1 lin. in diam, ; lobes ovate, acute to mncronate,. 

 li-3 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad; stamens i-^ lin. long, cells as long 

 as the connective; filaments ligulate ; ovary glabrous. A. DC. in 

 Da Prodr. xiv. 488. Pcnwa acuta, ThunK FL Cap, ed. Scliult. 150. 

 , SarcocoUa acnta^ Kitnih in Linnsea^ v, 678. 



South Afuica : withont precipe locality, Lehmann ! Masson ! Boicie ! I 



Coast Kkgion : Caledou Div. ; Zwart Berg, Alexander \ EcMon & Zeyhevl | 



Zeyha\ 3728! Pappe \ hills between Caledon and Eiim, Bolus, 84S5 ! Klein j 



lliver 3Iountains, Ecklon it Zeijher^ 14 ! Mountains near Onmst Eiver, Schlechtcv, 

 9489 ! Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Harvey ! 



3. B, Mundii (Sond. in Linnica, xxiii. 102); a small branched 

 undershrub ; branches glabrous, upper with a hoary bloom, lower 

 defoliated ; leaves thick, slightly channelled dorsally, spathulate, 

 glabrous^ narrowed at the base into a short petiole, erect or recurved, 

 1^-2 lin. long, blade elliptical or ovate, acute or shortly mucronu- 

 late, up to I lin. broad; petiole channelled above, I to 1 lin. long, 

 with several minute setye at each side of the axil, exstipulate ; 

 flowers solitary or 2-3 at the top of the branch ; pedicels 1-1 ^ lin. 

 long ; bracts all fertile, obovate, a little longer than the leaf, 

 tinged with red; bracteoles inserted half-way up the pedicel, 

 slightly shorter than the bracts ; perianth pink, becoming red 

 (Sonder), 4i-5l lin, long; tube broadly cylindrical, three times as 

 long as the limb ; lobes ovate, acute, 1-11 lin. long ; stamens less 

 than 1 lin. long ; anthers broadly cordate, cells shorter than the 

 connective ; ovary glabrous. A.DO, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 488. 



Coast Region ; Swellendam Div, ; mountains near Swelleudain, Minid (Cape 

 Herbarium) ! 



4. B. speciosus (Sond. in Linna^a, xxiii. 103) ; an erect under- 

 shrub, 1-2 ft. high, branching mainly from the base; branches long, 

 glabrous ; leaves erect, imbricate, sessile, broadly obovate to cuneate 

 or rotund, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cartilaginous or 



