192 SANTALACE.E (Hill). [Thesvum. 



110. T. translucens (A. W. Hill iii Ke\v Bulletin, 1915, 42) ; root 



erectj slender, greyish-white; stems up to 18 in. high, branched 

 from near the base ; bivanclies erect or ascending, angular, glabrous ; 

 leaves straight or incurved, ascending, linear-acicular, acute, 4-6 

 lin. long, about -J- lin. thick, flat and with a prominent midrib on 

 the upper surface, keeled below, glabrous ; flowers arranged in small 

 dense bracteate terminal heads 3-6 lin. in diam. ; bracts longer 

 than the flowers, gradually differentiated froDi the upper leaves, 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, reddish, keeled, 

 with membranous jagged margins about the middle, glabrous ; 

 bracteoles somewhat shorter and narrower than the bracts ; perianth 

 2-2i lin. long ; tube very short ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 with horny terete translucent apices, with a very short beard at 

 the base of the hood and finely papillose margins- antliers included 

 in the perianth-tube, -J lin. long ; stigma subsessile ; fruits not 

 seen. 



Coast Kkoton : Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, 2500 ft., Schlrrhter, 7580 ! near 

 Caledou, Bolus j without number in Herb. Bolus ! Riversdale Div. ; suinmit of 

 Kampsclie Berg, BiirchcU^ 7106 ! 



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111. T, densiflorum (A.DC. Esp. Nouv. Thes. 7) ; a low erect 



shrublet, about 1 ft. high, branched fi'om neai' the base or below^ the 

 middle ; branches erect, subterete, very finely spotted ; leaves 

 rather sparse, i-1 in. long, linear-acicular, subacute, flat on the 

 upper surface, rounded below, rigid, glabrous ; flowers in numerous 

 small capitate subcorymbose clusters ; bracts ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled, shorter than the flowers ; 

 bracteoles nari'ower and shorter than the bracts, with the latter 

 often blackened ; perianth 1 ^ lin. long ; segments ovate-eUiptic, 

 flat, hooded, 1 lin. long, with a dense tuft of apical hairs, margins 

 and inner surfaces more or less hairy ; anthers included in the tube, 

 \ lin. long ; stigma sessile ; fruits ellipsoid, contracted at the base, 

 2| lin. long, strongly lO-ribbed, distinctly reticulate between the 

 ribs. A.DC. in Da ProJr, xiv. 664 ; Soml in Flora, 1857, 40G. 

 T. denslflorum, vat. LinkU, A,DG, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 6G4. 



Coast Region : Worce-ster Div. ; Bains Kloof, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 9093 ! Cape 



Div..; Table Mountain, Bergiml mountain sides, near Simons Town, 1200 ft., 



Bolm\ Caledou Div. ; Zwart Borg, Ecklon ii- Z( ijhcr, 4 ! near GenadendaL Boht^, 

 7423, partly ! 



Sonder considered T, dtmljlorum, A.DC, to be a yonng condition of 

 T. spicatum, Linn. Tiiis, however, is not tlie caae, as m T. dcnaijioratn there id 

 no ring of hairs at the throat of the perianth. 



112. T. carinatum (A.DC. Esp. Kouv. Thes. 7) ; a small shrub, 

 about 18 in. high ; stem erect, sparingly branched; branches 

 densely leafy, glabrous ; leaves mostly parallel with the steni; at 

 length sometimes spreading, linear, acutely uiucronate, flat above, 

 keeled below, more or less triangular in section, 5-8 lin. long, finely 

 scabrous on the margins and keel ; flowers st^llked, in dense terminal 



