138 SAXTALACE^ (Hill). [Tliesium. 



West Gate, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3467! Natal; Port Shepstone, Rogers \ Dumisa, 

 1970 ft., Badatis, 472! Malvern, near Durban, 500-600 ft.. Wood, 4971! near 

 :^evvcastle, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 7186 ! Inauda, 1800 ft,, Wood, 154! 249! and 

 ■svithout precise locality, Gcrrardy 352 t Mrs. K, ^Saunders ! 



30. T. pallidum (A. DC, Esp. Nouv. Thes. 2); stems few, from 

 an erect and rather slender rootstockj leather closely sulcate, glabrous, 

 branched in the upper part ; branches erect, angular ; leaves linear, 

 obtuse, f-l| in. long, f^ lin. broad, rather coarsely verrucoses some- 

 what fleshy, glabrous ; inflorescence several-flowered, terminating 

 the branches ; bracts adnata to the peduncle for half their length, 

 leaf-like, those near tlie flowers acute and longer than the flowers ; 

 peduncle equalling the bracts, glabrous ; bracteoles 2, shorter than 

 the flowers, lanceolate, subacute ; perianth |-1 lin. long ; segments 

 ^1 lin. long, broadly ovate, hooded, margins slightly fringed, 

 incurved, membranous ; anthers exserted from the periaiith-tubej 

 slightly pendulous, about ^ lin, long; style ^-^^ lin. long, stout; 

 stigma capitate, reaching to the middle of the anthers ; fruit 

 ellipsoid, narrowed to the base, capped by the persistent erect 

 perianth-segments, 2^ lin. long, 1^ lin. in diam., very prominently 

 10-ribbed, coarsely reticulate between the ribs, slightly shinin 

 A.BCl in Da Prodr, xiv. 65i ; Sand, in Flora, 1857, 404. 



Coast Region: Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, iliac Okym?, 181 I Queenstown 

 Div. ; movmtain near Zwartkei Bridge, 4000 ft., Galpln, 2275 ! 



Central Region : Wodehoiise Div. ; Stormberg Range, Drefje, 81 70a J 

 Eastern Rkgion : Griq^ualand East ; Mount Cnrrie, fjson^ in MacOwan & 

 Bolagj Herb, Norm. Afr.-Aastr,, 1230 ! 





31, T. quinqueflorum (Send, in Flora, 1857, 354); a small erect 



shrub, 1-2 ft. high, much-branched ; branches erect, leafy, finely 

 pustulate, glabrous ; leaves erect-patent, linear, with subacute, 

 blackish tips, 2-4^ lin. long, concave above, keeled below, finely 

 pustulate; inflorescence terminal or subterminal, of cymose 4-5- 

 flowered umbellules; bracts and bracteoles subspathulate, keeled, 

 longer than the flcnvers, margins slightly membranous ; perianth 1-1 ij 

 lin. long ; segments J— | lin. long, ovate- triangular, obtuse, deeply 

 hooded, with incurved wavy margins ; anthers exserted and situated 

 under the hood, about } lin, long ; disc conspicuous ; style ^-^ Im- 

 long ; fruit subglobose, capped by the persistent perianth, 2^ lin. 

 long, l-j lin. in diam., 5-winged towards the base, smooth bet\veen 

 the wmgs. T. erect iramosum, A.DG, Es2j. Noiw. Thes, 2, partly; 

 A,DG. in DC. Frodr, xiv. G55, purtli/ ; Sand, in Flora, 1857, 404. 

 T. affine^ Schhchter in Engh JalrL xxvii. 115. 



Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; mountains near Grietjes Gat, ^di^jLl^^ 

 21,1 Houw Hoek, 1200 ft., Schhchter, 9394 ! 



Sonder ri^-htly ]3ointed out in his supplementary paper that De Candolle has 

 confused two ditferent plants under his species T. erectiramomm. Only Echlon & 

 Zeyher, 21, can be referred to T. quhiqueflorum, which is a r^uite distinct species, 

 the other specimens belong to T. viryatam, Lam. 



