Thcshnyi.] SANTxVLACE.E (Tlill). 157 



linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, up to ^ in. long, witli a distinct 

 keeled midrib on tlie lower surface, minute]}^ scabrous ; flowers in 

 lax cymes ; bracts more or less lanceolate, flat, acute, as lung as or 

 longer than the flowers, finely scabrous on the back and margins ; 

 bracteoles shorter than the flowers, very similar to tlie bracts; 

 perianth f-|- lin. long ; segments ovate^ subacute, |- lin. long, 

 slightly hooded ; disc prominent, lobed ; anthers exported, ^ lin. 

 long; style stout, ^. lin. long; fruits globose, 2 Hn, long, pro- 

 minently ribbed, very sparingly and inconspicuously reticulate 

 between the ribs. 



Coast Region : George Div. ; on a hill near George, Schlechta; 2-358 ! 

 Queenstown Div. ; Table Mountain^ Dre'je, 8170b ! 



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28. T. corymbuligerum (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 362); a small 

 shrub, up to 1 ft. high ; stems several, erect or suberect, woody^ 

 glabrous ; branches bearing small corymbs of several flowers ; leaves 

 small and inconspicuous, linear, acute, about 1 lin. long, fleshy, 

 concave on the upper sui^face, glabrous; flowers small^ in small 

 terminal branched cymes, bracts a little shorter than the flowers, 

 ovate or oblong, acute ; bracteoles very small ; perianth saucer- 

 shaped, 1 lin. long ; segments triangular, | lin. long, hooded, flat, 

 glabrous or nearly so on the margin ; disc conspicuous ; anthers 

 exserted, nearly^ lin. long; style -^ lin. long; fruits turbinate at 

 the base, scarcely 2 lin. long, rather fleshy and scarcely ribbed. 

 A.DO. in DC. Proch\ xiv. 660. T. pohjantJanUy ScJiIechler in Juurn. 

 Bot. 1898, 27. 



Coast Region" : Cape Div. ; Beacon Hill, lVoUei/-Dodj 2821 ! roadside towards 

 Chapmans Bay, WoUey-Dod, 1551 1 Caledoa ; stony heighta of the Ilartebeest 

 River, Zcyher, 3812 ! Zwart Berg, Echlon d: Zeyher, 85 ! Rlver.-sdale Div. ; near 

 GarciasPasri, 1800 ft., Bolus, 11376 ! 



29. T. floribundum (A. W. HilJ in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 27); 



stems erect, branched from about the middle, prominently ribbed, 



glabrous ; branches ascending, slender, flexuous ; leaves linear, 



acute, ^-1 in. long, up to h lin. broad, somewhat fleshy, glabrous; 



flowers paniculate in the upper part of the branches; bracts adnate 



to the peduncle for nearly a third of their length or less, leaf-like, 



keeled ; cymules 3-5-flo\vered ; bracteoles longer than the flowers, 



linear-lanceolate, acute ; perianth f lin. long ; segments triangular, 



pillose margins ; 



style stout, very 



short ; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, capped by the pe^^^istent perianth, 



contracted at the base, 2 lin. long, 1^ lin. indiam., very prominently 



10-ribbed, reticulate between the ribs, often slightly glaucous. 



Coast Region : British Kaffraria, Cooper, 138 \ 



Kalahari Eegiox : Transvaal ; near AYouderfontein Railway Station, 6000 ft., 

 Bolus, 12278 ! Heidelberg, Schlechter ! 



= EASTfciRX REGrox: Temhuland ; Bazeia. Bavr, 33t>, partly! Gririualand East; 

 Mount Currie, 5200 ft., Tijs<m, 1838! Pondoland ; I'ort St. John, summit of 



\ lin. long, fleshy, hooded, with more or less pa 

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



