Thcsiicm.] santalacE-E (Hill). 161 



branches more or less angular, subcorymbosely or paniculately 

 arranged, glabrous ; loaves of two kinds, the lowermost very few 

 or absent, acicular, acute, subterete, up to 6 lin. long, black anil 

 arcuate when dry, grooved on the upper surface, upper leaves short, 

 subulate-lanceolate, decurrent on the branchlets, 1-2 lin. long, sub- 

 acute, glabrous, with black recurved tips ; flowers few, crowded and 

 sessile at the ends of the branchlets ; bracts like the upper leaves, 

 equalling the flowers, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acute, edges more 

 or less fimbriate ; bracteoles linear-oblong, shorter than the flowers ; 

 perianth | lin. long; segments triangular, hooded, about I lin. long, 

 very shortly papillose ; anthers |- lin. long, e.\:serted ; style |-f lin. 

 long ; fruits broadly ovoid, about 2 lin. long, contracted and pro- 

 minently 10-ribbed at the base, faintly reticulate between the ribs. 

 A.DG. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 659. 



Coast Eegion" : Cape Div. ; Simons Berg, Wdlcy-Dod, 3015! and without 

 precise locality, Harvejj, 715! 716 ! Caledon Div. ; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendai, 

 ■Burchell, 7663! Zwart Berg, 2620 ft., Schlechter, 5550! Houw Hoek, ISOO ft., 

 &kl_ecki€r, 9?,S9 l Yogel Gat, 2000 ft., ScMiuMiX,--^^!^ I Bredasdorp Div. ; 

 l^eU-een Eiini and Fairfield, 1100 ft., Bolus, 8600! Uiteuhage Div.; without 

 locality, Zeijher, 272 ! 



Central Rkgion : Ceres Div. ; Cold Eokteveld, Gydouw Berg, 5S00 ft., 

 Schhcliter, 10235 ! 



37.^ T. nudicaule (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 35); a 



divaricately branched leafless or nearly leafless shrub ; branches 

 subterete, about 1 Hn. thick, glabrous ; upper leaves (or bracts ?) 

 bract-like, ovate-triangular, acutely acuminate, about | Hii. long 

 and nearly as much broad, scale-like, with blackened tips, flmbriate- 

 ciliate on the margins, otherwise glabrous ; bracts similar to the 

 scale-leaves ; bracteoles more or less lanceolate, acute, about half the 

 length of the flowers, margins very nan^owly membranous and 

 minutely serrulate ; perianth 1 lin. long, with conspicuous external 

 fleshy glands and an internal disc ; segments triangular-ovate, 

 hooded, | lin. long, margins finely ciliolate and reflexed ; anthers 

 exserted from the perianth-tube, 4 lin. long ; style \ lin. long, 

 I'eaching to the aniddle of the anthers; fruits stipitate, ellipsoid- 

 globose, nearly 3 lin. long including the 1 lin.-long stipe, strongly 

 10-ribbed, coarsely reticulate between the ribs. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Olifants River, 500 ft, Schkdder, 8479! 



Malmesbury Div. ; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 151 



38. T« schumannianum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 452) ; 



a small shrub, sparingly branched ; stem and branches ascending, 

 green, slightly angular, glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or subacute, l|-3 lin. long, about | lin. broad, rigid, thick, flat on 

 the upper surface, slightly keeled or convex below, green, with 

 conspicuous cartilaginous subtranslucent margins ; flowers in small 

 terminal clusters, becoming blackish when dry ; bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 late, about half as lonir as the flowers, slight! v keeled, tliick and 



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