Thcsium.'] SANtalace^ (Hill). 179 



to or free from the peduncle, linear, with acute recurved tips, as 

 long as or slightly exceeding the flower, flat on the upper surface, 

 glabrous ; bracteoles half as long as the flowers or slightly more, 

 otherwise similar to the bracts; perianth 1-U lin. long; segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, subacute, §-1 lin. long, densely bearded ; 

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

 ■J lin. long, reaching to a little below or above the base of the 

 anthers ; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2^ lin. long including the persistent 

 perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, purplish, distinctly reticulate 

 between the ribs. T. sonderianum^ ScJdecliter in Joiirn. Bof, 1898, 

 376, as to Bolusj 526. 



Var. j3, rasum (A. W, Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 32) ; differs from the type 

 ui the beard of the perianth-segments being very small and of few oliort hairs. 



Coast Region : Queenstown Div. ; on a kopje near Queenstown, 3G00 ft., 

 (raiym, 2157, partly ! Galpiii, 1545 ! Kolbel Hangklip, 5600 ft., Galpin, 58561 

 Mund d: Maire ! 



Ckxtral Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; Sneeuwberg Range, near GraalT Reinet, 

 4600ft., Bolus, 526, partly! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Besters Vlei, near AVitszies Hoek. 

 o400 ft.j BoluSy 8249! Var. j9 : Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rthmann, 4544! 

 Zuikerbosch Rand, Schlechter, 3507 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; near Durban, 8000-4000 ft., Sutherland I near 

 Esteourt, 4920 ft., Schkchter, 3357 ! 



Galpin, 2157, was made the type of T. longirostrc, Schlechter (= T, Zeyheri, 

 A. DC.) ; the specimen under this number at Kew was sent to Kew by 

 Mr. Galpin, and though from the same kopje as 2157 in Herb. Schlechter, is not 

 part of the original gathering and is quite a distinct plant. Bolus, 526, in Herb. 

 Stockholm is identical with this species, though this number is included by 

 Schlechter under T, sondcrianum. 



78. T. magalismontanum (Soncl. in Flora, 1857, 358); stems 



few and slender from a slender rhizome, erect or suberect, often 

 glaucousj faintly sulcate, glabrous ; branches very .sparingly leafy ; 

 flexuous and bearing scattered flowers over nearly their full length ; 



leaves linear, subacute, i-f in. long, often adpressed 



concave on the side next the stem, mostly glaucous, glabrous; 

 flowers solitary in the bract-axils of lax spikes; bracts ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, shorter than the open flowers, 

 slightly warted outside, glaucous-grey; bracteoles nearly three- 

 quarters as lonrr as the bracts and very similar to them but 



external 



)r subacute, hooded, 

 J lin. long, bearded, with hairy margins; anthers partly included 

 in the perianth-tube, J lin, long ; style ^-J lin. long, reaching to 

 above the base or about the middle of the anthers ; fruits broadly 

 ellipsoid, 2f lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, slightly glaucous and 

 conspicuously reticulate between the ribs. T. vier/alisinontanum, 

 Sond. ex A,DC\ in DO. Prodr. xiv. 670. 



Kalahari Eegiox : Transvaal; Magaliesberg Range, Zeyher, 1501! Burk€\ 

 Zeyher, 1500, partly! Pretoria, Aapies Pooit, Rehnuinn, 4010! Derde Poort, 

 Miss Leendertz, 375 ! Pretoria Kopjes, Miss Leendertz, 293 1 Rustenburg, 

 Mhs Xatlon, 207 ! near Wami Baths, Bolus, 12274 ! 



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