118 LOEA^^THACE.E (Spiaguc). [loTCnitJltlS. 



Coll PL ii. 4, /. 39. TapinantJtus namaquensiSy Van Tieglt. in Bull 

 Soc. Bot, France^ xlii. 267. 



Var. B, Forbesii (Sprague) ; corolla glabrous. 



Var. 7, leendertziae (Sprague); corolla densely villous or coarsely pilose with 



rusty septate hairs ; peduuclej pedicels and bract tIUous or coarsely pilose ; 



pedicels sometimes suppressed. 



Okntkal Region : Prieska Div. ; Prieska, by the Orange River, Lichtenstein ; 

 near the Orange Iliver between Gariep Station and Shallow Ford, Burchellj 

 1648! 



Western Region: Great Namaqualand ; Naiams, Schinz, 284 ; Gauas, Schhiz, 

 288 ! Kuibes, Schinz, 289 ; Schenck, 377 ; Bethany, Schevch, 394, 395 ; north of 

 Keetmanshoop, Fcndtd, 154; Karas Mountains, Fenchcl^ 153 ; Sandverhnarj on 

 Parlinsonia africana, Sond., Pearson^ 4:140 1 Little Bushmanland ; Ramonds 

 Drift, Orange River, Schlechter I Bushmanland; banks of the Orange River near 

 Abbasis, Pearson^ 3005 1 sandy plains between Ougrabies and Kweekfontein. on 

 Parkinsonia africana, Send., Pearson^ 3796 ! Little Namaqualand ; by the Groen 

 lUver, Drege \ Orange River, near Verleptpram, Drege ! near Modderfontem, 

 Whitehead \ Bolus, 9450! and without precise locality, Wyley^ 73! 



Kalahaiu Region : Bechuaualaud ; near Kuruman, on Acacia detlnens, Burcb., 

 Marhth, 1075 ! Var. y : Transvaal ; Pietpotgieters Rust, on Acacia sp., 

 Miss leendertz, 11421 in thickets near Badsloop, Schlechter, 4291! Crocodile 

 River, BurJie ! Doom River, on a quince bush, Nehon, 538 ! 



Eastern Region : Var. ^: Delagoa Bay, Forbesl Morakwen, Junod, 457 1 



Harvey, following Ecklon k Zeyher, wrongly identified Lichtensteinia olesefoha^ 

 Wendl.^ with Lora/Uhus ekgans, Cham. & Schlecht., and described the latter 

 •under the name Lorantkus olea^foUas (Fl. Cap. ii. 576). He described the true 

 Loi^anthua ok^rfolinSj Cham. & Schlecht., as a new species, L. namaqucnsiSy Harv. 

 An historical account of L, elegdns and L, olesefolius is given in Kew Bulletin, 

 1914, 359. 



L. olecefoliusj Cham. & Schlecht., as defined above, is polymorphic in regard 

 to the shape and size of the leaves, and the indumentum of the corolla. Var. P 

 Forlcsii appears to differ from the type in nothing but the glabrous corolla ; but 

 Miss Leendertz's specimen, which is the type of var. y Leendertzi^j haa densely 

 villous inflorescences and gessile flowers, and has a very distinct facies. It is, 

 however, connected with typical X. olexfoUus by the specimens collected by 

 Burke and Nelson, which have much less hairy inflorescences and distinctly 

 pedicelled flower.^. 



20. L. kraussianus (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. But. ii. 539) ; 



f;labrous; branches rather slender, hardly 1^ lin, iii diam. 1 ft- 

 below the apex, greyish-brown, conspicuously lenticellate ; branchkts 

 slender^ subangular, smooth, green, turning black on drying ; intcr- 

 nodes |~1^ in. long; leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, 

 conspicuously petioled, ovate or lanceolate, 1^-3 in. long, ^-1^ i^- 

 broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse or more or losscuneate 

 at the base, thinly coriaceous, slightly glossy, obliquely penninerved, 

 the second pair of nerves from the base more conspicuous than" the 

 rest, running subparallel to the midrib^ the upper part of the leaf 

 often appearing trinerved in consequence, nerves raised on both 

 surfaces in a dried state; petiole 4-6 lin. long; umbels axillary, 

 solitary on the branehlets, solitary or geminate on tlie branches, 

 4-8-flowered ; peduncle 1-^-i lin. long; pedicels 2-2| lin. long, 

 ■very oblique at the apex ; bract erect, unilaterally developed from a 

 saucer-shaped base, broadly oblong, truncate or rounded, very con- 



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