174 SANTALACE.^ (Hill). [Tkesiifm. 



Central Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; Oucle Berg near GraafF Reiiiet, 4400 ft., 

 Bolus, 637 ! Phillipstown Div. ; near Riet Fonteirij Waschbanks Riverj BiircheUj 

 2724! 



Eastern Region: Tembuland ; Gat Berg, Intwanazana, 4000 ft., BauVy 51S ! 

 Xatal ; Kiginj^a, 5500 ft., Wylic in Herh. Wood, 10532 ! 



Kalahari Region: Basutoland, Cooper^ 699 ! 



66, T. junceum (Benih. in Flora, 1845, 80) ; stems branched from 

 the base or in the upper part, whip-likej sulcata, glabrous ; branches 

 -ascending, stiff and often elongated ; lower leaves very few, rarely 

 present, terete, about | in. long, glabrous ] tlowers arranged in 

 rather slender loose spikes; bracts ochreate, oval^p lanceolate, very 

 acute, f-1 lin. long, keeled, with broad scurfy jagged membranous 

 margins, glabrous; bracfceoles 2, shorter thaa the flower, narrower 

 than the bracts btit otherwise similar ; perianth about 1 lin, long ; 

 segments triangular, acute, 1-j lin. long, their inner surface white 

 and fleshy, with a dense apical woolly beard ; anthers included in 

 the perianth-tube, \ lin. long ; stigma sessile or supported on an 

 extremely short style ; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2 lin. long, 1^- lin. in 

 •diam., prominently lO-ribbed, especially in the lower part, faintly 

 reticulate between the ribs. A.BG, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 6Q9, parfJi/, 

 excL sTjn. ; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 406. 



Var. j3, maminosum (A. ^^^ Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 33) ; differing from the 

 typical form in having a large fleshy protuberance from the inside of each perianth- 

 segment over the antliera. 



Var. 7, plantagineum(A.AV. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 33) ; characterised by 

 the dense spikes resembling those of Plantajjo maritima. 



Coast Region : Clan^vi^liam Div. ; near Brakfontein, Ecldon & Ze^jliev.^ 7, 



partly! Human.sdorp Div.; Zitzlkama, Krauss, 1804! Ivruistontelli, bDO tt., 



'Oalpin, 4551 ! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Bcklon & Zeyher, 4 6 ! Albany 



Div. ; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 690 ! Bathufsl Viv ; near'Ka"ffir Drift, 



Burchell, 3868! Var. ^: Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, Jfr5. Faterson, 

 806 ! 



Eastern REGioy : Transkei ; Var. 7: Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 878, 

 partly ! near the mouth of the Qolora River, Mhs Pegler, 1302 ! 



67. T. natalense (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 358); stems few and 

 erect from a short knotty rhizome, branched in the upper third or 

 half, nearly leafless, longitudinally sulcate, f-l lin. thick, glabrous ; 

 leaves very few and closely adpressed to the stem, linear, 1 -2 lin. 

 ^'^^g' glabrous ; flowers borne on the primary branches, spicate ; 

 ■spikes slender, suberect, slightly flexuous towards the apex, loose- 

 flowered, glabrous ; bracts shorter than the flowers, subulate from 

 .an ovate-triangular base, 1-1^ lin. long, keeled, with scurfy 

 membranous margins; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little 

 shorter ; perianth about 1 .1 lin. long ; segments elliptic, subacute, 

 -flat, ^ lin. long, with a dense woolly apical beard and hairy 



margins; anthers included in the perianth-tulje, or partly exserted ; 

 stigma sessile or supported on an extremely short style ; fruits 

 rather long-stipitate, ellipsoid, quite 3 lin. long, with numerous 

 ■conspicuous ribs, prominently reticulate between the ribs. 2 . 



