176 SANTALAGEiE (Hill). ■ • [Thesiim. 



70. T. flexuosum (A. DC. Esp. Nouv. Thes. 6) ; a tall rather strag- 

 gling plant about 1 ft. high, often with whip-like branches; branches- 

 longiturlinally sulcate, glabrous ; leaves very few, acicular, subterete, 

 acntej about 5 lin. long, fleshy, glabrous ; flowers in fairly close and 

 rather stout spikes ; bracts spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acutely 

 acuminate, about 1 lin. long, sharply keeled, with broad hyaline 

 scurfy margins ; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little narrower ; 

 perianth about 1 lin. long ; segments lanceolate, acute, ^-f lin- 

 long, with a long hood, bearded with straight hairs ; anthers 



partly exserted and partly included in the tube, ^ lin. long ; 

 style \ lin. long, reaching to the middle of the anthers ; fruits 

 ellipsoid-globose, about 2^ lin, long, beaked by the very long cone- 

 like persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, clearly reticulate 

 between the ribs. A,I)(1 in DC, Fn^dr. xiv. 609. T, spicatam, 

 Drege in Linn^a^ xx, 211, not of Linn. T. junreum^ Soml. in Flora^ 

 1857, 359, parti i/y not of Bernh. 



Coast Regiox : Constantia Berg, 2700 ft., SrhkchieVf 519! Oudtshoom Div. ^ 

 Oudtshoorn, 1100 ft., BoJus, 12275! Humansdorp Div.; near Gamtoos Eiver, 

 164 ft., ScJdechter, 6051 ! Uitenhage Div.; near Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 184 T 



?>796 partly! ^Mm & Zt uher. O^Redhouse, Mrs. Puterson, 52! Bathurst Div.; 

 Cxlenfilling, Brege, partly ! near Bound Hill, 1000 ft., Bolus, 10652 ! 



Central Region: Graaff Reiiiet Div.: mountains near.Graaff Beinet, Bohts, 

 813 ! 1943* ! Camdeboo. Dunri ! 



71. T. spartioides (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915; 41) ; a- 



small wiry plant about 5 in. high ; rootstock about 2| lin. thick, 

 with forked branches ; stems several, ascending, very slender^ 

 terete, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous ; leaves closely 

 adpressed to the stem, sul)ulate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 1-1 ^ 

 liu. long, convex on the back, glabrous ; flowers rather crowded 

 towards the ends of axillary branches ; bracts scale-like, ovate- 

 lanceolate, ac\miinate, about half as long as the flowers, with 

 minutely friuged edges ; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little 

 narrower; flowers sessile within the bracts; perianth f lin. long^ 

 segments about | Hn. long, triangular, acute or acuminate, bearded ;. 

 anthers ^ lin. long, exserted from the perianth-tube ; style | li^- 

 long, reaching to the middle of the anthers ; fruits small, subglobose,. 

 about 1^ lin. long including the persistent perianth, conspicuously 

 10-ribbed, finely reticulate between the ribs. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; on the hillri near l>nig Spruit. -iGOO ft-, 

 Schlechter. 3754 ! 



72. T, confine (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 3G3) ; stems numerous, 



branching, arising from a wootly rootstock ; rootstock slender, pub- 

 terete, about 11 lin. thick ; branches very slender, whip-like, grey, 

 subterete, glabrous ; leaves scale-like, adpressed to or parallel with 

 the stem, subulate-lanceolate, 1-2| lin. long, glabrous : flowers 

 few in short spikes ; bracts shorter than the flowers, lanceolate, long 

 and acutely acuminate, about 1 lin. long, fleshy in the middle, with 



