Thesiv.m.] saxtalace.e (llill), 1 S3 



exserted, nearly 1^ lin. long; style ^ lin. long, reaching to the base 

 ■of the anthers ; fruit not seen. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Harri.smith, Said-aj, 223 ! 



87. T. nigrum (A. ^V. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 35) ; stems 



sevei 



sulc 



flat 

 flow 



■| lin. long^ 

 the anthers 



t» Y " ■ ■■ ^w--*, *^^^j ^^y J ^X,^M^i^ 



iral from a broad-topped Avoody rhizome, strongly ribbed and 



ate, glabrous ; leaves broadly linear, acute, straight, ^-|- in. long, 



, rather thick and fleshy, becoming blackish when dry, glabrous ; 



rers solitary in the bract axils, subsessile, arranged in lax spikes ; 



bracts as long as or longer than the open flower, hnoar-Ianceo- 



late, acute, entire, glabrous ; bracteoles about two-thirds as long as 



the bracts ; perianth with large conspicuous external glands, about 



li lin. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, subacute, 1 lin. long, 



infolded and deeply hooded, densely fringed and bearded to the 



base ; anthers included towards the top of the perianth-tube, about 



; style 1 lin. long, reaching to the top or the middle of 

 5 ; fruits ovoid-ellipsoid, 3^ lin. long, strongly lO-ribbed, 

 very slightly reticulate between the ribs. 



Kalahari Rlgion : Orange River Colony ; Cooper, 826 I lOGl 1 



Eastern Regiox : Natal ; between Pietermaritzburg and Grevtown, Wilms, 



2253! Giants Castle, 9000 ft., Guthrie^ ^^bW Griqualand East; "near Kokstad, 



5000 It., Ttjson, 1863! 



88. T. graciiarioides (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 



29) ; stems branched from the base, up to nearly I ft. high ; 

 branches rather densely leafy, ascending, slender, angular, glabrous ; 

 leaves linear-acicular, acute, ^\ in. long, scarcely ^ lin. thick, 

 keeled on the back, glabrous, with a fairly prominent midrib on 

 the upper surface; flowers arranged in leafy racemes of cymules at 

 the ends of the shoots ; bracts adnate to the peduncles, very 

 similar to the leaves, with narrow subtranslucent margins, about 

 twice the length of the flowers ; bracteoles as long as or a little 

 longer than the flowers ; periantli urceolate, with prominent external 

 glands, about 1 lin. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, subacute, 



hooded, §—2 l^^i- ^^ng, %vith an apical beard of a few hairs and 

 incurved margins ; anthers at the base of the perianth-segments 

 or almost in the tube, about | lin. long ; stigma sessile or subsessile ; 

 fruits ovoid, 2 lin, long, finely 10-ribbed, clearly reticulate between 

 the ribs. 



Kalahapj Regiox : Transvaal ; gi-assv mountain sides of the Saddleback Range, 

 ^ear Barberton, 4000-5000 ft., Galpin, 543! Swaziland; Havelock Concession, 

 3700 ft., SaUmarshetn Ilcrh. GaJpin, 1048 I 



89. T. asterias (A, W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 23); root- 

 stock stout, many- or few^-headed ; stems erect, branched in the 

 npper part, compressed and angled, purplish when dry, glabrous ; 

 leaves acicular, grooved above, acute, \-\ in. long, about X lin. 

 thick, glabrous ; flowers arranged in lax racemes or racemes of 

 cymules ; bracts partly adnate to the peduncle, linear, acute, up to 



