162 SA^TALACEJ' (Hill). [7^/^5/2^?^. 



fleshy, with a suspicion of minute teeth on the slightly membranous 

 margin ; bracteoles more or less linear, very much shorter than the 

 bracts; perianth 1-1^ lin. long; segments triangular, flat, slightly 

 hooded, | lin. long, with slightly papillose margins ; anthers exserted, 

 ^ lin. long ; style |- lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers ; 

 fruits ovoid, about 2| lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, laxly 

 reticulate between the ribs, green when dry. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Orange Kloof, Wolley-Bod, 2623 ! Ylagge Berg: 

 WoUey-Dod, 438 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrj-s Pass, 2500 ft., SchIedit€v,J2M,i 



39. T. juncifolium (A.DC. Esp. Nouv. Thes. 1) ; subshrub, 1-2 ft. 



high ; stem much-branched from the base ; branches wiry, more 

 or less dichotomously divided, slender, minutely pustulate, terete, 

 with rather long internodes, glabrous ; leaves very small and 

 subulate, closely adpressed to the stem, acute, about I lin. long, 

 mostly rather black when dry, glabrous ; inflorescences very slender, 

 subdichotomously branched ; cymules 3-6-fiowered ; peduncle free 

 from the bract ; bracts similar to the leaves^ the one immediately 

 subtending the flower forming with the two bracteoles a cup-like 

 involucre ; bracteoles very small, much shorter than the flower, 

 subulate-lanceolate, acute j flower 1^ lin. long, subturbinate ; perianth 

 f lin. long ; segments ^ lin. long, triangular, with ciliolate margins, 

 thickened at the apex but not hooded ; anthers about ^ lin. long ; 

 style stout, I lin. long. A.DC. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 656; Sond. in 



Flora, 1857, 402. T. virgahm, Sond, 7.c. 361, as regards Ecklon ii 

 Zeijlitr 55 (i Lain.). T. hrevifolium, Sond, Ix. 3QI, parlly. Ehinn^ 

 stegla IrevlfoUa, Turcz, in Bull Soc. Nat Mosc. xvi. 1843, bl,parthj. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; river-bed below Kradouw Krantz, Pearson, 

 5372 ! Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon & Zeyher, 55 ! Worcester 

 Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Dre^e, 8167a, partly in Herb. Stockholm and Kew, not m 

 Herb. EoLss. Near De Dooms, Hex River Valley, BolaSy 13186 I 



Some doubt and confusion in the synonymy of T. juncifolium are occasioned 

 by the fact that under the number Dr^ge, 8167a, there are two different plants m 

 different herbaria, though they are not always intermixed. In the Boissier 

 Herbarium, 8167a is the type of T. drefjea/nvn, A.DC.^ a form of T. virgatum^ Lam., 

 but at Kew and Sfcockliolm two different plants are mounted on the same sheet, 

 one of which is T, juncifolium, and the other is the same plant as the type ot 

 T, drcijeanum, represented at Berlin byDr^ge, 8167b. Rhinostefjia hrevifolia ^vas 

 founded on Drege, 8167, and it id therefore doubtful whether it bhoidd be wholly 

 referred to T. juncifolium or to T. viryatum. ^ 



^ 40. T. virgatuixi (Lam. 111. ii. 123) ; stem much-branclied, terete ; 



branches numerous, erect^ slender, angular, slightly pustulate, 

 glabrous ; leaves acicular, terete, acute, up to 3 in. long, fleshy, 

 glabrous ; inflorescences numerous, few-flowered, paniculute-corynv 

 bose ; peduncle free from the iracts ; bracts linear-subulate, £?;Cute 

 or subacute, 1-2 lin. long, concave ou the lower surface; bracteoles 

 shorter than the flowers, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about ^- be- 

 long, with slightly membranous margins, glabrous; perianth ^~t 

 lin. long; segments triangular, flat, ^-J lin. long, deeply hooded, 



