150 SANTALACE^ (Hill). ITkcsi 



urn. 



12. T. disciflorum (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 27); stems 



•weak and probably procumbent, much-branched from the base ; 

 "branches slender, subterete, minutely scabrous, reddish-brown when 

 dry ; leaves numerous, linear, acutely mucronate, 2-3 lin, long, 

 convex below, flat above, at length recurved, minutely scabrous, 

 fairJy fleshy ; flowers solitary ; bracts and bracteoles longer thau 

 the flowers, the former leaf-like, adnate to the peduncle ; peduncle 

 very short; bracteoles 2, about half the length of the bracts, 

 acutely mucronate ; perianth-segments triangular, -^ lin. long, hooded, 

 glabrous ; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, |- lin. long ; 

 style \ lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers; fruits 

 ellipsoid, capped by the persistent perianth, If lin. long, 1 lin. in 

 diam., ribbed and reticulate, gUibrous. 



Central Region : Graaff Eeinet; in giussy places on Tandjes Berg, 4300 ft., 

 JBolus, 1967 I 



13. T- namaquense (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 120); 



stems branched, rather slender^ terete ; branches slender, flattened 

 and sulcate, glabrous ; leaves linear, acute, 3-4 lin. long, rather 

 fleshy, glabrous ; flowers solitary, pedicellate ; bracts acicular, 

 much longer than the flowers, resembling the leaves ; pedicel 

 about I lin. long, with 2 small bracteoles at the base, glabrous ; 

 bracteoles linear-lanceolate, acute, f lin. long; perianth f lin. 



long, glabrous ; segments I lin. long, triangular, acute, slightly 

 hooded, glabrous; anthers ^ lin. long; filaments \ lin. long; 

 disc conspicuous, lobed; style ^ lin. long, its apex below the 

 anthers ; fruits with prominent ribs. 



Western Eegion : Van Rliynsdorp Div. : Karree Bergen. 2000 ft,; Schkchterj 

 8206 ! 



P^ 14. T, acutissimum (A. DC. Esp, Nouv. Thes. 4); stems numerous 



and slender from a slender rootstock, finely sulcate, very minutely 

 tuberculate ; branches slender ; leaves acicular, subterete or in the 

 barren shoots flat and with a distinct midrib, acutely mucronate, 

 up to I in. long, rather fleshy, glabrous, recurved ; inflorescence 

 1-3-flowered ; bract shortly adnate to the peduncle, flat on the 

 npper surface, concave below, apex cartilaginous and acute; 

 bracteoles longer than the flowers, similar to the bracts; perianth 

 lin. long; segments triangular, ^ lin. long, hooded, glabrous; 

 anthers | lin. long ; disc conspicuous ; style | lin. long, reaching 

 to the top of the anthers ; fruits ellipsoid, capped by the persis- 

 tent perianth, 1| lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, conspicuously 

 reticulate between the ribs. Sond. in Flora, 1857, 405; ADC, 

 in Da Prodr. xiv. 659. T. KrehsiL A.DC. Esv. ~ ^ 



Nouv, TJies 



Prodr 



xiv. 656; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 403. T. ajpicnlahm, 

 Sond, in Flora, 1857, 357; var, corniculahm, Sond. in Flora, 

 1857, 357. T. comiculalum, A.DC. in D.C. Prodr. xiv. 062, parthj. 

 T, stridum, Thiuib. ex Sond, in Flora, 1857, 357, name only. 



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