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Thesium,] SANTALACE^ (Hill). 175 



macrostachifum, A.DG, Esp. Nouv. Thcs. 6, jun'^h/y ""'^ ^'» DO. ProJr. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Shilovaae, Jamd, 7191 near Lydeuburg, 

 4800 ft., Schltchter, 3953 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; near Durban, Gueinzivs, 407! Inanda, Wood, 168 1 

 173! 242! Dalton, 3300 ft., Radatis, 14! Clairmont, 50 ft., Wood, 1920! 

 Schltchtcr, 306i ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 204 ! 



68. T. scirpioides (A. W. Hill ia Kew Bulletin, 1915, 40): 



stems \voody, ratlier nuaierous and erect from the apex of a man} - 

 headed woody rhizome, branched from near the base or in the 

 upper part, conspicuously sulcate, glabrous, leafless ; floM'ers borne 

 on loose erect spikes, the latter forming a loose corymb ; bracts 

 scaly, much shorter than the flowers_, broadly ovate, acute or acutely 

 acuminate, |-1 lin. long, keeledj with brown narrowly membranous 

 margins, glabrous ; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little 

 shorter; perianth 1;^ lin, long; segments triangular, acute, flat, 

 ^ lin. long, with a dense apical woolly beard and hairy margins ; 

 anther included in the perianth-tube, ^ lin. long ; stigma sessile or 

 almost so; fruits slightly contracted at the base, ellipsoid-globose, 

 3 lin. long, IJ lin. in. diara., rather faintly 10-ribbed, scarcely 

 reticulate between the ribs. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Harrismith, 5500 ft,, Sanlcey, 240 ! 

 Bestera Vlei, near Witszies Hoek; 5400 ft., Bolus^ 8248 ! and without precise 



locality, Cooper, 834! 



Eastern REGrox : Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 4300 ft., Tj/son, 1535! 

 Natal ; by the Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4066 ! 



This species is nearly allied to T. natalense^ Send., but is distinguished by it*? 

 «tout stitf erect branches and broader leaves and bracts with their brown narrowly 

 membranous margins. As in T, naialense, the beard of the perianth-segments ia 

 composed of flexuous woolly hairs. 



69. T. paronychioides (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 359); a small 



slender plant about 5 in, high ; branches numerous from the apex 

 of a very slender erect rootstock, slender, prominently verrucose 

 when dry, otherwise glabrous; leaves few, linear, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, 2^-3 lin. long, flat on the upper surface, glabrous ; flowers 

 loosely spicate; bracts ochreate, scaledike, broadly ovate, acutely 

 acuminate, sharply keeled, with very broad hyaline scurfy margins ; 

 bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts but a little shorter ; perianth 

 §-|^ lin. long ; segments lanceolate, subacute, about J lin. long, 

 deeply hooded, bearded with stout stiflf hairs ; anthers included in 

 the perianth-tube or slightly exserted, about \ lin. long ; stigma 

 capitate, sessile or subsessile ; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2 lin. long, 

 strongly 10-ribbed, faintly reticulate between the ribs. T.junceum, 

 A.Da in DC. Prodr. xiv. 6Q9, partly, not of Bernh, 



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Coast REaiox: Swellendam and George Div. ; collected by Mund in EcJdon d: 

 ^^y'^ier'% distribution of Themm^V6\ George Div.; hill near George, SchkcJder, 

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