168 SANTALACE^ (Hill). [Thesium . 



grooved, glabrous ; leaves small, scattered, lanceolate, acute, recurved, 

 about 1 lin. long, glabrous ; cymules about 3-flowered ; flowers sessile 

 or subsessile; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, with black tips, 

 shorter than the flowers, more or less keeled, with membranous 

 minutely ciliate edges ; perianth j lin. long ; segments oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, I lin. long, fleshy, slightly hooded, apex and 

 margins densely ciliate; anthers exserted from the pei'iaiith-tube, 

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

 fruit ellipsoid, contracted at the base, 2 lin, long including the 

 persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed from the base, slightly 

 reticulate between the ribs. A,DC. In DC. Prodr. xiv. 665 ; Sond. 

 in Flora, 1857, 407. T. jjarvifoUunh A.DCl Eqy. Nouv, Thcs, 3; 

 Sond. in Florctj 1857, 404; A,DC, in DC, Prodr, xiv, 657. 



Coast Regiox : Paarl Div. ; between Paarl and French Hoek, D 

 Swellendam or George Div. ; collected by Maud and distributed 

 ^eyhcr, 19 ! 



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52. T. capituliflorum (Sond. m Flora, 1857, 363) ; a low spreadin 

 heath-like shrub, about 6 in. hii'h ; branches numerous from the 

 apex of a rather slender erect rhizome, somewhat angular, glabrous ; 

 leavevS closely adpressed to the stem, with spreading tips, lanceolate, 

 subulate-acuminate, |-1 lin. long, convex below, with finely puberu- 

 lous margins ; flowers sessile in small dense clusters at the apex of 

 the slender branches ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, with blackish acumi- 

 nate tips, shorter than the flowers, keeled, with more or less 

 membranous fringed margins ; bracteoles similar to the bracts but 

 a little shorter; perianth |-1 lin. long; segments ovate-triangular, 

 acute, J-| lin. long, flat, densely bearded ; anthers \ lin. long, 

 exserted from the perianth-tube; style about ^ lin, long; fruits 

 subglobose, 2 lin. long, including the beak-like closed persistent 

 perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, conspicuously reticulate between 

 the ribs. A.DC in DC Prodr. xiv. 665. 



South Afkica: without locality, %iimuL-Zei;AfiavJlj2.{nl^y ^ Znjher, 19-^ ! 



Coast Region : Tulbagh Div. ; by'Tnllagh Waterfall, Zfiihrr ! fAIou & Zeyhti\ 

 18! New Kloof, Scklechter^ 7507! ^ '^' ^' '" "' " " '^"'' '''*'*** 



near Cape Town, Benjim \ Harvey 



Camps Bay, Borckdl, 380! Ca^ ., „ , . 



Genadendal, Drc'je, 8169! Hawaton, Schkrhtn; 0172 ! Grabouw, near Palmiet 

 River, Bolus, 4205 ! Great Honw Boek^Ze*/ 



Cextral Regiox : Ceres Div. : near Ceres. Bdus 



53. T. cuspidatum (A. W, Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 26); a 



low much-branchccl woody subshrub ; steni much-branched from the 

 apex of a slender subcrect rhizome, subterete, glabrous ; branches 

 slightly ribbed ; leaves few and scattered, the lower acicular, with 

 a subacute cartilaginous apex, about ^ in. long, subterete, glabrous ; 

 the upper suberect and more or less adpressed to the stem, triangular- 

 lanceolate, acute, about 2 lin. long ; flowers glomerate at the ends 

 of the branchlets, subcorymbose ; bracts and bracteoles crowded ^ 



