Thesum.] SA^TALACEJ■: (Ilill). 171 



lanceolate, acutely acuminate, with more or less membranous 

 margins, glabrous ; bracteoles about f the length of the bracts but 

 otherwise very similar to them ; perianth |-1 lin. long ; segments 

 ovate, subacute, flat, not hooded, ^ lin. long, margin and apex with 

 a beard of long hairs ; anthers included in the perianth-tube, 

 slightly over ^ lin, long ; stigma subsessile or supported on a very 

 short style ; fruits oblong-globose, contracted and stij)itate at the 

 base, 11 lin. long, fairly prominently ribbed, reticulate between the 

 ribs, reddish-brown when dry. 



Coast Eegiox : Malmesbury Div. ; neighbourhood of Hopefield, between Lilie- 

 fontein and Rondekuil, BacJunann, 2195! 



59. T. glaucescens (A. AV. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 29); 



shrubby; branches 1-2 ft. long, diffuse, rosy-glaucous, glabrous; 

 branchlets divaricate, nearly leafless, subterete ; leaves very small, 

 and few, linear, obtuse, f-1 h lin. long, rigid, glabrous ; flowers few 

 in clusters at the ends of the branchlets; bracts inconspicuous, 

 much shorter than the flowers, lanceolate, subacute, concave on the 

 upper surface, glabrous ; bracteoles very small ; perianth cylindriCj 

 f lin. long; segments lanceolate, subobtuse, § lin. long, with an 

 apical beard of long hairs; anthers exserted from the perianth- 

 tube, ^ lin, long ; style -^ lin. long, reaching above the anthers ; 

 fruits ovoid, 2 lin. long, strongly 10-ribbed, glaucous and finely 

 reticulate between the ribs. 



Coast Region : Swellendam Div. ; dry plains by the Zondereinde River, 

 Burchdl, 7513 ! 



60. T- hispidulum (Lam. ex Sond. in Flora, 1857, 363); stems 

 much-branched, sulcate, woody, scabrid-puberulous ; branchlets 

 more or less dichotomously forked, scabrid-puberulous ; leaves 

 recurved, acicular, acutely mucronate, about 3i- lin. long, glabrous 

 or puberulous like the stems ; flowers few and crowded at the ends 

 of the shoots, subsessile ; bracts and bracteoles crowded, with 

 puberulous margins; perianth 1-1^ lin. long; segments ]-| lin. 

 long, lanceolate, subacute, hooded, and with a dense apical beard ; 

 anthers included in the perianth-tube, \ lin. long ; style | hn. long, 

 reaching to the base of the anthers; fruits subglobose, 2 lin. long 

 including the persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, strikingly 

 reticulate between the ribs. A,DC. in DC. Pro/7r, xiv. 671. T. 

 hispidulum, var. glahratum, Sond. in Flora, 1857, 363, not T. panicu- 

 latum, Tliunh. Herb, and Prodr. 45 (Jidc Sond. he), nor T. selagheum, 

 A.DC.fidc Sond. in Flora, 1857, 404, T. hispidum, Schleehter in Engl 

 Jahrh. xxiv. 452. 



^ Var. 0, subglabrum (A. \V, Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 30); plants very 

 minutely hairy ; perianth and anthers larger than in the type ; glands well 

 marked. T. conostt/Ium, Schleehter in Lngl. Jahrl. xxvii. 117. 



CoAsr Eegion : Clanwilliam Div. ; Foot of Krakadouw Pass, 2790 ft., DieJs, 

 934 I Piqaetberg DiY. ; east side of Pikeniers Pass, Pearson, 5218! foot of 

 Piquet Berg, PSO ft., ^chUchter, 5^26 ! Tulbagh Div.; :N\-w Kloof, 450 ft., 

 Schlec Wr^JiSe I near Saron, ^500 it'., Schleehter , 10667 I Tulbagh, J'appe I East 



