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Theshtm.] santalacej- (Hill). 1 



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concave on the upper side, convex below, glabrous ; flowers in* 

 axillary clusters usually about 2 lin. apart, 1^3 together j bracts 

 shorter than the flower-clustersj lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 



becoming black, caducous; bracteoles 3-6, fornjinij a small in- 



volucre, ovate, acute, concave, ^-| lin. long; perianth 1 lin. long; 

 segTuents | lin. long, with conspicuous external glands between- 

 each, margin slightly involute, glabrous ; anthers l lin. long ; fila- 

 ments -^ lin, long ; style very short ; fruit subglobose, contracted at 

 the base, 1^^ lin. long, prominently 10-nerved, finely reticulate- 

 between the nerves. 



^ Central Region : Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schkc hter, 8859 ! 

 Western Region: Calvinia Div. ; Papelfoutein, IScn^iTtr, 10897 ! 



19. T. euphorbioides (Linn. Mant. Alt. 214); an erect somewhat 

 woody ishrub, up to 6 ft, high ; branches straight, angular, glaucous ; 

 leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, cordate at the base, mostly 

 adj^ressed to or encircling the branches, often ov^erlapping, acutely 

 mucronate, ^-1;^ in. long, |-~1 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, several 

 nerved, glaucous, glabrous ; cymes racemose, with large leafy 

 coloured bracts ; bracts suborbicular^ mostly a little smaller than 

 the leaves, as long as and enclosing the cymes ; bracteoles obovate or 

 I elliptic, rather longer than the flowers ; perianth 1-1;^ hn. long, 



J with distinct external glands ; segments lanceolate, obtuse, about 



1-^ lin. long, hooded, with incurved margins; anthers pendent, 

 ^ exserted, ^ lin, long ; disc rather inconspicuous ; style about ^ lin. 



long; fruit shortly stalked, subglobose > beaked by the persistent 

 style, 2| lin, long, with 5 prominent ribs and 5 faint ones between, 

 scarcely reticulate. Berg. Descr, PL Caj). 74 ; Thiinh. Fl. Cap. ed. 

 Schdt, 211; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 353. T, amjplexicaule, Linn. 

 Maut. Alt 213. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! 



Coast Region : TTilba^h Div. ; between New Kloof and Elands Kloof, Drenf a ! 

 Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Ecldon ffr Zeylier, 10 ! Stelleubosch Div, ; Hottentots 

 Holland, 1500 ft., Ludicigl Bolus, 4204! Dich, 1295 1 between Stelleubosch and 

 Cape Flats, Burchell, 8351! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Barchell, 7646! 

 Zwart Berg, 200-300 ft., Zeyher, 3787! Mac Otcan, 27^2 I and Herb. Norm. 

 Au$tr.-Afr., 764! Pappe \ Schlechter, 5371! near Genadendal, Dregehl Donker- 

 Hoek Mountain, BurcheU, 7978! Bredasdorp Div.; Koude Kiver, 900 ft., 

 ^iM.£lner,^^m\ Rivei-ridale Div.; Garcia,^ Pass, PJnllips, 324! Galpin, 4547 1- 

 near the Gouritz River, Ecklon & Zeyker, 40 I Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartko[)S River, 

 Zeyher, 3786 ! 



20. T, pinifoliuin (A.DC. Esp. ^^iiv. Thes. 2); stem 5 ft. high, 



bbed 



crowded in the upper part of the stem, ascending or suberect, 

 rather sharply ribbed, glabrous ; leaves acicular, terete, obtuse 

 or subobtusCj slightly decurrent on the stem, those on the main 

 stem 1-1^ in. long^ arcuate, those on tJie flowering branches shorter,, 

 glabrous ; flowers subglomerate at the ends of the branches ; cymes 

 few-flowered; bracts linear, subobtuse, about \ in. long, boat- 



