Thesium.] santalage.-e (Hill). 145 



1. T. spinosum (Linn. f. Suppl. 161); a mucli-branclied woodv 

 ^hrub with very spiny leaves and bracts ; brandies flexuous, often 

 glaucous-grey, glabrous; leaves spreading at right angles, pungent, 

 trianguhir-subulatej very acute, 2i— 4 ]in. long, with the margins 

 <5losely adpressed together, subdecurrent on the stem, glabrous ; 

 bracts like the leaves but a little shorter; flowers solitary in the 

 ■ axil of the bract, pedicellate ; bracteoles 2, -s-ery small, subulate ; 

 pedicel short, rather stout, glabrous; perianth | lin. long, with 

 distinct external glands ; segments triangular, slightly hooded, 

 ^bout I lin. long, with a slight trace of flaps on the margin; 

 anthers exserted, } lin. long ; disc conspicuous ; style ^ lin. long ; 

 fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 1 v lin. long, rather faintly 10-ribbed, 

 reticulate between the ribs. Thunh. I)hs, Thes, 6; FL Cap. ed, 

 SchulL 208; l)r^\je, Zwei Pfl, Documcnte, 107, 108, 113; Sond. in 

 Flora, 1857, 353; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 654. T, tevetlfoUum, 

 It. Br. Prodr. 353 ; A.DC Lc. 672, name only. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunhergl Zenker. 1Q6 I Nelson inHerh. Banks \ 

 Coast Region : Van Khynsdorp Div. ; near Herrelogeuieatj Drtqe c ! Zeijher^ 



150:1 ! Ebeaezer below 500 ft., Dve^m M Clauwilliam Div. ; Lauge Kloof, 400 ft.. 



Scklechter, 8048! Malmesbury Div. ; near Saldanha Bay, jBoIus, 12825! 



Bachmann, 1700! Eddon & Zeyher, 38 ! between Greene Kloof & Saldanlia Bay, 



Dre'jea ! Cape Div. ; Cape, Flats, near Claremont, Scklechter, 536 ! 



2. T. pungens (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 39) ; a much- 

 brancbed shrub, about 2 ft. high ; branches crowded, glaucous- 

 grey or greenish when dry, with rather short internudes, glabrous ; 

 leaves spreading at right angles, pungent, rigidly subulate with 

 very acute spinous tips, 2-3|- lin. long, subterete, glaucous-grey 

 with yellowish tips ; flowers solitary in the axils of the bracts ; 

 bracts similar to the leaves but a little shorter; bracteoles very 

 •small at the base of the short pedicel; perianth f-l^- Hn. long, with 

 ■conspicuous external glands ; segments triangular-ovate, |-| lin. 

 long, slightly hooded, flat, with flaps at the side ; anthers exserted, 

 i-|- lin. long; disc conspicuous ; style J lin. long; fruits ellipsoid- 

 globose, 1^ lin. long, 10-ribbed, slightly reticulate between the ribs. 

 T, spinosum, Drege, Zwei Pfi. Documente, GS, partli/, not of Linn. f. 



Western Region: Little Namaqnaland; between Pedros Kloof and Lily 

 Fonteiu, C000~4000 ft., Dreje (T. spi7iosum,e partly)! Kamiesberg Range, at 

 Kharkamo, Pearson, 6684 ! 



3, T. spinulosum (A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 647); a small 

 blender plant about 5 in. high, much-branched from the base; 

 branches ascending or spreading, slender, sharply o.ngular, glabrous ; 

 leaves subacieular, slightly angular when dry, acute or subacute, 

 ^-G I'm. long, fleshy, glabrous; flowers arranged in axillary 

 flexuous racemes; bracts subulate, very acute, about 1| lin. long, 

 .glabrous, nearly as long as the flower ; bracteoles 2, arising on each 

 side of the bract, about half as long as the flower, subulate and 

 "^'ery acute; flower shortly pedicellate, about 1^ lin. long including 



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