98 PEN^ACEiE (Stephens). [Endoncma. 



South Africa : without precise locality, Burmann ! Nlvcn ! Bojer I Boxinrgh ! 



Zeyhev, 176 ! 



COxVST Region : Caledou Div. ; Zoetemelks Valley, Thunherg ! at or near 

 Genatleudal, Ecklon & Zeyher, 17! Bolus, 5396! Schlechter, 9S37 ! 10305! 

 Mountains of Bavinans Kloof, near Genadendal Barchdl, 7782 ! Swellendam 

 Div, ; Grootvaders Bosch, collector unlmoK'n, in the Cape fferbarhunl Uitenhage 

 Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Ecklon d' Zeylier ! 



2. E. retzioides (Sond. in Linna^a, xxiii. 103); a much-branched 

 glabrous undershrub or small shrub ; branches corymbose, 1-angled 

 above, becoming terete lower down ; lower branches always de- 

 foHated ; leaves erect, rigid, much longer than the internodes, 

 narrowly linear, acute, revolute at the margin, minutely puncticu- 

 late on the upper surface, with the nerve prominent beneath, 9-1 -"^ 

 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, exstipulate, with 1 or 2 short sette lu the 

 axils at each side of the leaves and bracts ; setae of bracts persistent 

 as a circlet on the apex of the pedicel ; flowers solitary on short 

 pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves, usually only 2 or 4 on each 

 twig; flowers and bracts 4, golden, decussate on the pedicel at the 

 base of the flower, sterile or very exceptionally with an rorrested 

 minute axillary bud, convolute, suborbicular^ lower with a short 

 acumen, 1-2 lin, long, upper with usually rounded apex, sometimes 

 emarginate and mucronate, 2-^-3 lin. long, caducous or falling very 

 soon after the flower opens; perianth golden, up to If lin. long; 

 tube about four times as long as the limb ; lobes deeply tinged with 

 red, lanceolate, 4-5 lin. long ; stamens as long as the perianth- lobes 

 or slightly longer; anther shorter than the filament; capsule 8 lin. 

 long; seeds 2-2 J- lin. long. A.DC.in DC, Profh\ xiv. 491 ; Gilg rn 

 EngL& Prantl, Pjianzenfam, 210, fig. 73, A-G. Sarcocolla retzioides^ 

 EckL & Zeyh. ex Sond. 7.c. 104. 



South Africa : without locality, EcUon & Zeyker ! 



Coast Regiox : Caledun Div. ; Houw Hoek, among stones on the mountains, 

 Schlechtcr, 7337! mountains near Genadendal, Roserl Burchell, 7712! P^ppel 

 Tysanl on the summits of the Zwartberg Range near Tygerhoek, Vif/ne in 

 MacOivan, Herb. Aiigtr.-Afr., 16J:6 ! Swellendam Div. ; banks of the Z niderelnde 

 River, near Appels Kraal, and on the neighbouring mountains, Zet/her, 3724 ! 

 Ecldon & Zeyher, 15 ! 



Order CXIX. A. GEISSOLOM ACE^ 



(By E. L. Stephkxs.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Perianth inferior, persistent, 

 gamosepalous, 4-partite to tlie base; segments ovate, mucronatc, 

 imbricate in bud, with the lateral segments internal, one enfolding 

 the other, and the external segments at right angles to the axis, 

 the margin of the inner enfolding the outer. Stamens 8, perfect, 

 inserted at the base of the perianth, 4 opposite the perianth-lobes 



