I 



Thesium,] santalace.i: (Hill). 191 



hairy pocket-like depressions behind the anthers; segroents linear- 

 lanceolate, subacute, 1^—2 Jin. long, fleshy, densely bearded ; anthers 

 ^— ^ lin. long, included in the perianth-tube ; style |-I4 lin. long^ 

 reaching to the middle or the top of the anthers ; fruits ellipsoid- 

 globose, 3i Hn. long, including the persistent perlantli, rather 

 ■slenderly lO-ribbed, smooth and not r(}ticulate between the ribs. 

 Thunb. Diss. Thes. 9; FL Cap. eel Scliult. 209; Bernli. hi Flora, 

 1815, 80; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 360; A.DG. in DC. Prodr, 

 xiv. 663. 



Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; Hopefield, IhfcJiminn, 1701! Caj^e Div. ; 

 various localities, Thimherg \ "Forsta- I Berglusl £cMon, lOG ! EcJdon <{: Zcijheri 

 Chamisso, 10! Wilms, 3589! Wolley-Dod, 3019! 1505! Wrhfhtl Harvey, 715! 

 Zeyher, 58 1^! JJreijehl Wallirhl Iloolrr, 624! Bolus, 3073! 4762! Anrkf//, 

 593 ! Caledon Div. ; near Grietjes Gat, Zcjjhcr, 3788 ! Hamaiisdorp Div. ; Krui.s- 

 fontein, 800 ft., Galpin, 4552 ! 



^ ^ 108. T, glomeratum (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 29); 



stems ascending, slender, sparingly branched, very slightly scabrid- 

 puberulous; branches slender, sulcate, glabrous or nearly so ; 

 leaves linear, acute, flat or concave on the upper surface, sometimes 

 keeled below, 3-4 lin. long, glabrous or slightly scabrous on the 

 margins; flowers in very short racemes or in small terminal heads; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, about as long as the flowers, keeled, 

 with membranous very minutely ciliate margins ; bracteoles about 

 two-thirds the length of the bracts, narrower but otherwise similar ; 

 perianth l^-lf lin- long; segments ^ lin. long, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, with a dense apical beard; anthers included in the perianth- 

 I tube, I lin. long ; style | lin. long, reaching almost to the top of 



the anthers; fruits oblong, scarcely 3 lin. long, greenish when dry, 

 subconspicuously 5-ribbedj especially near the base, with nearly 

 invisible intermediate ribs. 



Coast Ekgion : George Div. ; without precise localitv, BoIuSj 2458 ! Unioni-lale 

 Div. ; Long Kloof, 300 ft., Schltchter, 839 9 ! 



109. T. fimbriatum (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 191o, 27) ; a 



^small ^>hrub, about 1 ft, high, branched from the base ; branches 

 ascending, rather rough with the persistent leaf-bases, glabrous ; 

 lca\-es linear, subacute, closely adpressed to the stem in the lo\\ cr 

 part, slightly recurved above, 3-4 lin. long, flat on the upper surface, 

 slightly keeled below, glabrous ; flowers arranged in dense terminal 



capitate clusters 4-5 Jin. in diani. ; bracts broadly ovate, acutely 

 j- a^cuminate, longer than the flowers, with prominent membranous 



fimbriate margins ; bracteoles similar to the bracts but nnich 

 narrower and shorter; perianth 1^ lin. long, with conspicuous 

 external glands ; segments linear-lanceolate, 1^ lin. long, with a 

 conspicuous hood | lin. long, bearded with a few sliort hairs ; 

 anthers uicluded in the perianth-tube, \ lin. long ; style \ lin. long, 

 reaching to the middle of the anthers.' 



Coast Regiox : Tulbao*h Div. ; eastern base of the Roodezand Mountains, 

 ^90 ft,, i)ie?s, 1125! 



