Thcsium.'] SANTALACE.^ (llill). 177 



membranous jagged margins ; bracteoles similar to tlie bracts but 

 a little shorter; perianth 1^ ]in. long; segments | lin, long, lanceo- 

 late, acute, flat, with a long apical beard ; anthers partly exserted 

 from the perianth-tube, f lin. long ; style ^ lin. long, reaching 

 nearly to the top of the anthers ; fruits ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, pro- 

 minently 10-ribbed, faintly I'eticulate between the ribs, more or less 

 glaucous-green. A,DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 665. 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; near Xieuvvjaars Spniit, betwopn 

 the Orange and Calcdon Rivers, Zeyher ! Bloomfontein, under shade of trees and 

 shrubs, (jvcy College Ilerh. 76 in Jlerh. Bolus ! Leeuw Spruit and Vredefurt, 

 Barrett- JIamilton m Ilerh. British Museum ! 



73, T. griseum (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 357) ; whole plant very finely 

 scabrid-puberulous ; stems numerous^ short and ascending from a 

 short rhizome, simple or spai-iugly branched ; leaves linear, acute or 

 subacute, 2-5 lin. long, convex below ; flowers arranged in fairly 

 dense terminal spikes ; bracts lanceolate, subacute, about as long as 

 the flowers, sometimes almost verrucose ; bracteoles a little shorter 

 than the bracts, but otherwise very similar ; perianth 1 lin. long ; 

 segments triangular-lanceolate, subacute, with a few long apical 

 bail's on the inside; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, \ lin. 

 long; style stout, -| lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers ; 

 fruits not seen. A,DO. in DC. Prodr. xiv. G70. 



Cextkal Regio:^ : Graaff Eeinet Div. ; Camdeboo, Dunn in Jlerh, Bolus I 

 Nieuwjaara Spruit, between the Orange Kiver and Caledon River <at the foot of 

 the Witbersr Ran[re. Zet/her ! 



74. T. transvaalense (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 432); 



Thizome often severabheadedj stout ; stems slender, ascending, 

 densely leafy, tinely and rather densely and shortly pubescent with 

 spreading or slightly recurved hairs ; loaves mostly more or less 

 parallel Avith the shoot, linear-sub idate, very acute, l|-2 lin. long, 

 convex on the back, rather minutely but conspicuously ciliate and 

 puberulous ; flowers in short spikes, overtopped by the same year's 

 leafy shoot, with the ovary conspicuously pubescent ; bracts longer 

 than or equal to the flowers, similar to the leaves, often incurved ; 

 ■bracteoles shorter than the flowers or about as long; perianth 1| 

 Hn. long, slightly pubescent outside ; segments narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, I lin. long, with a dense apical beard ; anthers half exserted 

 from the perianth-tube, ^ lin. long; style a little over { lin. long, 

 reaching to the base of the anthers ; f luits ovoid-globose, 2 lin. 

 long, pubescent, strongly 10-ribbed, reticulate between the ribs. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaa-I ; Jeppes Town Ridp:es, Johannesburg, 6000 ft., 

 ^ilfiUan in IJevh. Galpin, 6068 ! Elaudsfontein , 6500 tt., Gilfillmi in Eivh. Galpin, 

 14191 Magaliesberg Range, BurJce I Hoekemoer Spruit near Klerk.sdorp, Nelson. 

 '249 ! near Modderfontein, 4500 ft., .)fim Nation, 39 ! Jcnkinfi I Elsburg, 5900 ft. 



^chhchtcr, 3542! Aapies Poort, Behmann, 4009! Klippan, Boschveld, Belimann, 

 ^212 ! near Pretoria, BurU-Davy, 781 1 Miss Leendcrtz, 255 ! near Irene, Burtt- 

 ^avi/, 2306 ! 



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