18G SA^'TALACE.'l• (Hill). [Thesiim. 



Coast Regiox : Cape Div. ; eastern slope of Table Mountain (possibly 

 introduced), SdiUcMcr , 485 ! 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rthmann, 4012! 4543! 4718! 

 iT//,s%s Leendertz, 293 ! near Heidelburg, Schlechter, 3532 ! Jeppes Town Ridge, 

 Johannesbvirg, Mrs, dc Jovjli in Ihvh. Gal phi, 1471 ! GUfillan in Herb. Galpin, 

 6069 ! near Modderfontein, Miss Nation, 69 1 70 1 Middleburg district, at 

 Bi-onkhorst River, Wilms, 1309! 



^Vliss Olive Nation states that this '' stiff upright herb is used by the Kafirs to 

 make brooms." 



/^ 95. T. fallax (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 118); branches 



erectj woody, with transversely splitting corky bark ; young 

 bninchlets light-green, stout, finely sulcate, glabrous ; leaves flat, 

 thick and coriaceous, hnear or linear-lanceohite, obtusCj ^-1 m. 

 long, 1-2 lin. broad, with rather broad cartilaginous subtranslucent 

 margins, glabrous ; flowers in fairly dejise solitary capitate clusters 

 at the ends of the shoots ; bracts coloured, oblanceolate, subacute, 



3-4 lin. long, with a broad fleshy keel in the upper part, margins 

 subtranslucent and greenish-yellow, glabrous ; bracteoles similar to 

 the bracts but a little shorter and narrower ; perianth 1| Hn. long, 

 fleshy, with conspicuous external glands ; segments linear, subacute, 

 fleshy, li lin. long, with an apical beard of hairs and a fringe on 

 the margins ; anthers exserted, at the base of the perianth-segments, 

 }: lin. lonij ; stiirma sessile. 



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Coast Region ; Bredasdoi-p Div, ; mountains between Elim and Fairfield, 

 Bolus, S59S ! near Napier, Schlechter, ^658 ! 



96. T. helichrysoides (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 30); 



stems elongated, up to 2 ft. high, sparingly branched in the upper 

 part, green, with narrow purple angles, glabrous ; branches suberect ; 

 leaves linear, subacute, ?,-i| in. long, nearly 1 lin, broad, thick and 

 fleshy, flat or slightly concave on the upper surface, with very 

 narrowly cartilaginous margins, glabrous, becoming wrinkled when 

 dry ; flowers in rather dense terminal corymbs ; bracts yellowish- 

 green when dry, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, shortly 

 adnate to the peduncle, reaching to the top of the flower, glabrous 

 and rather fleshy ; bracteoles a little shorter than the bracts but 

 otherwise very similar ; perianth with conspicuous external glands, 

 1^ lin, long; segments lanceolate, obtuse, 4-1 lin. long, deeply 

 hooded, with a dense apical beard and infolded hairy margins; 

 anthers included in the perianth-tube just at the base of the 

 perianth-segments, -? lin. lons^ ; stigma subsessile ; fruits with a 



stalk about i lin, long, ellipsoid, 3 lin, long, with 5 very prominent 

 and 5 much less prominent nerves, finely reticulate between the 

 nerves, yellowish-green when dry. 



Coast Rk giox : Riversdule Div. ; between Garcias Pass and Muis Kraal, 

 1850 ft., Bohis, 113751 



97. T. umbelliferum (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 42); 



stems tall, erect, woody, with more or less rounded angles, glabrous ; 



