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86. T. coriarium (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 24); stems 



solitary or subsolitary from a small knotty rhizome, sparingly 

 branchedj erect, ahout i in. high, strongly ribbed, somewhat glaucous, 

 glabrons ; leaves few, linear, obtuse or subacute, 4-6 lin. long, 

 |-1 lin. broad, slightly keeled below, slightly glaucous, glabrous, 

 thick and ileshy ; flowers white, few in loose racemes, solitary in the 

 bracts ; bracts adnate to the short (up to 1 lin. long) peduncle, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, more or less boat-shaped, with smooth 

 gins, longer than the flowers, entire ; bracteoles about two- 

 thirds as long as the bracts ; perianth 2|- lin. long, with very large 

 and conspicuous external glands ; segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 1;^ lin. long, Avith a dense woolly apical beard; anthers partly 



182 SANTALACE^ (Hill). [ThcsiliVl. 



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stems erect, 6-8 in. high, bearing spreading branches 2-4 in. long, 

 angled and grooved ; leaves distant, spreading, 3-4 lin. long, subu- 

 late, acute, with colourless tips ; inflorescences in simple or compound 

 spikes or racemes ; flowers either single and sessile in the axils of 

 bracts or borne in short 3-flowered axillary cymes ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, acute, e(|ual in length to or half as long again as flower, sessile 

 on axis or adnate to the peduncle ; bracteoles springing from the 

 bract-axil, shorter than the flower; perianth white, about \\ liu. 

 long ; segments elliptic-ovate, obtuse, f lin. long, apex hooded and 

 with upper part of margin densely bearded ; filaments i lin, long ; 

 anthers about \ lin. long ; style f lin. long ; fruit ovoid, 1 \ lin. long, - 



1 lin. broad, immature, ribs obscure. Baker and Hill in Dyer, FL 

 Trap. Afr, vi. i. 419. T. WelimUcMi, Gilg in Baum, Knnene-Samh, 

 Expetl 230, not of Hi em in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 938. ^ 



Kalahari Eegiox : Transvaal; Wannbaths, Miss Lmadcvtz^ 1335 ! 1353! ; 



Also in Tropical Africa. 







85. T. Junodii (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 33); stems 

 branched from the base ; branches ascending, slender, sharply 

 angular or almost winged, sulcate between the angles, glabrous ; 

 leaves linear, very acute, -^-^- in. long, keeled below, flat or nearly 

 so and prominently 1-nerved on the upper surface, glabrous ; 

 flowers solitary in the bract axil, subsessile ; bract shortly adnate 

 to the A^ery short peduncle, longer than the flower, very similar to 

 the leaves ; bracteoles about as long as the flowers, narrowly linear, 

 acute; perianth 1^ lin. long; segments with conspicuous external 

 glands, lanceolate, subacute, ^ lin. long, hooded, bearded at the 

 apex ; anther exserted from the perianth-tube, \ lin, long ; stjde 

 f-| lin. long, reaching to the middle or top of the anthers ; fruits 

 elongate-ellipsoid, about 2 lin. long including the persistent perianth, 

 with fairly conspicuous ribs and reticulation. - 



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SOTJTH Afril'A ; without locality, WaJdhevfj \ in Stockholm Herbariiun. j 



Kalahari Region; Transvaal ; Shilovane, Juywd, 1301 ! 



