TJlCsium.] SANTALAUE.E (Hill). Ifio 



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Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Great Kara^berg, summifc of a Iav 

 hill, Pearson, 7805 ! 



44. T. pleuroloma (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 38); a 



prostrate herb or subshrub ; stems glabrous, prostrate, flexuous, 

 ribbed, 10-14 in. loni^, bearing numerous elon<?ated ilexuous 



flowering brauclilets ; leaves scattered, acicular, somewhat fleshy, 

 lo-2^ lin. long, abruptly acute; flowers pedicellate, solitary in the 

 axils of bracts disposed in lax racemose inflorescences; bracts 

 subulate, shorter than the flowers, |-1 lin. long, acutely acuminate, 

 glabrous ; bracteoles inconspicuous ; perianth ^ lin. long ; external 

 glands conspicuous ; segments f lin. long, ovate with hooded apex, 

 margins provided with two infolded membranous flaps or lacinuke 

 protecting the anthers ; anthers \ lin. long, exserted ; style \ lin. 

 long, reaching to the base of the anthers ; fruit not seen. 



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Cextral Regiox : Murraysburg Div. ; near Murraysburg, Tyson, 129 in Ihrh, 

 Bolus ! Carnarvon Div. ; Kareeberg Range, Barchell, 1566 ! 



A weak straggling plant externally resembling T.junccum^ Berali., but distinct 

 in possessing membranous flaps to' the perianth-segments like those of T. lacinu- 

 latum^ A. W. Hillj as well as in the absence of a beard. 



45. T. horridum (Pilger in Engl. Jahrb. xliv. US) ; a low spread- 

 ing bush ; branches numerous, short, stiff, pungent-pointed, minutely 

 puberulous ; leaves more or less imbricate and adpressed to the 

 stem, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about 2 lin. long, convex 

 below, concave above, finely scabrid-puberulous on the margin and 

 surface ; inflorescences crowded, 3-4-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 Jate, acute, keeled ; flowers shortly pedicellate ; perianth ^ lin. 

 long ; segments ovate-triangular, acute, fringed at the apex and 

 on the margin ; anthers inserted in the perianth-tube and partly 

 exserted, \ lin. long; style \ lin. long; fruits globose, | lin. long, 

 with distinct" ribs and reticulation, supported on a pedicel about 

 h lin. lonor. 



Western Region : Calvinia Div. ; west of Hantam Mountains, Dieh, 71S ! 



46. T. hystricoides (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 31); 



•a rigid much-branched shrub, with rigid tapered spine-tipped 

 branchlets; branchlets straight, contracted at the base, longi- 

 tudinally wrinkled, minutely puberulous;. leaves very small, tri- 

 -angular, rigidly coriaceous, acute, very slightly puberulous outside ; 

 flowers solitary, distinctly pedicellate within the bracts, with a 

 finely pubescent ribbed receptacle ; bracts ovate, subacute, glabrous ; 

 bracteoles minute; perianth nearly 1 lin. long; segments ovate, 

 obtuse, I lin. long, with the margin and apex fringed with fairly 

 long hairs ; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, \ lin. long ; 

 style thick, \ lin. long, reaching to about the middle of the anthers, 

 with a somewhat capitate stigma; fruits ovoid-globose, stipitate, 

 about 2 lin. long, strongly 10-ribbed, finely puberulous, scarcely 

 reticulate between the ribs. 



