<)6 ■ PEN^ACEJi (Stephens). [Sarcocolla 



Dreffel Slopes above Kamps Bay, Dllmmev, 118; Mountains above Simons Bay, 

 Llliottl Boivm, 555! Wrifjjd, 128! Ecklon it Zeyher, 10! Alexander \ Mountains 

 ^bove Klaver Yley and Smitswinkel, Woller/'Dodj 1492 ! 



lY. GLISCHROCOLLA, Endl. 



Ferianthtuhe oblong, 4-ribbed, about three times as long as the 

 limb ; lobes erect; becoming reflexed in the faded flower, reduplicate- 

 valvate in bud. Stamens shorter than perianth-lobes; filaments 

 vei'y short; anthers cordate-ovate; cells oblong, longer than the 

 connective, with a membranous margin. Ovary and siylc as long 

 as the perianth, glalu-ous ; ovules 4 in each cell, inserted half-way 

 down on an axile placenta, 2 erect and 2 pendulous, raphe extrorse 

 in all; style filiform; stigma obsoletely 4-lobed (-4. Jnmeu), Fruit 

 unknown. 



Probably a low shrub ; branching dichotomous ; branches glabrous, obscurely 

 4-angled in the younger parts by the decurreut leaf baocri, becorniiig terete lower 

 down ; leaves ovate, close-ranked, large for the order, passing into bracts at the 

 apex of the flowering shoot ; flowers approximated at the tips of the branches; 

 peduncles dichotomous ; pedicels very short. 



DiSTRiB. Species 1, endemic. 



1. G. lessertiana (A. DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 490) ; leaves erect, 

 imbricate, hardly more than 1 lin. apart, ovate, obtuse, with a 

 narrow yellowish margin and prominent dorsal nerve, f-1 in. long, 

 1 in. broad, passing into bracts at the apex of the flowering shoofc ; 

 stipules (when present) 2, very minute, awl-like ; a minute crested 

 scale at each side in the axil of the leaf ; bracts leaf -like coloured, 

 sterile bracts rather larger than the leaves, fertile bracts longer but 

 narrower than the leaves; bracteoles 2, coloured, coriaceous, linear- 

 oblong, slightly shorter than bracts, about 1 lin. broad; perianth 

 about 11 in. long; tube four times as long as the limb, nerves 

 alternating with the lobes ; lobes ovate, obtuse, entire or sinuate, 3-4 

 lin. long ; stamens half as long as the lobes ; filaments shorter than 

 the anther, thick ; connective tuberculate. Gihj in EtujL & PrantI, 

 Pjianzenfam. iii, 6 A, 212, Jig. 73, H-K, Sarcocolla lesserilana, 

 A. Juss, in Ann, St\ Kat. 3'"^ ser. vi. 2G. Pensea formosa^ Tluinl. 

 Fl, Cop. ech Scliult, 149 (from description and original specimen in 

 Thunlcrg^s Jierharlum), 



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Coast Region : Stellenbosch T)iv. ; French IL^ek Mountain.^, Masson ! 



V. ENDONEMA, A. Juss. 



Perianthlube long, cylindrical, about four times as long as the 

 limb ; lobes thickened to form a central ridge on the inner side, 

 erect, becoming reflexed as the flower fades, valvate in bud. Stamens 

 nearly as long as the perianth-lobes or slightly longer ; filaments 



