Thesiuvi.] santalace.^ (Hill). 195 



elongated flexuous spikes, solitary or 3 together ; bracts much 

 shorter than the flower, lanceolate, subacute, fleshy, about 1 lin, 

 long, glabrous ; bracteoles about three-quarters the length of the 

 bracts but otherwise similar; perianth 1-1| lin. long, with con- 

 spicuous external glands ; segments lanceolate, subacute, 1-1;^ lin. 

 long, the margins and the apex with long stout hairs, with a 

 well-marked ring of hairs at the throat of tlie tube ; anthers exserted 

 from the perianth-tube, |- lin. long ; filaments as long as the 

 anthers ; style stout, -\ lin. long ; fruits top-shaped at the base, 

 subglobose, 3^ lin. long, fairly prominently 10-ribbed, faintly reticu- 

 late between the ribs. T. fnnaJcy var. calcdonicum^ Sond. in Floray 

 1857, 359; A,BG. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 668. 



Coast Eegiox: Malmesbury Div. ; near Moorees Berg, 500 ft., Bolus, 99811 

 Zwartland and region of Berg River streams, Ecldon & Zcylier, 51 ! Paarl Div. ; 

 near Paarl, 300 ft,, Schleckter, 92jl7 ! Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Bergufs\ and 

 without precise localityT^/arr^y, 71] /partly ! 



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117. T. fuuale (Linn. Sp. PJ. ed. ii. 302); a very slender woody 

 ondershrub branched from the base ; branches terete, closely sulcate, 

 glabrous ; leaves very few or ahuost entirely absent^ or sometimes 

 especially on the young annual plants fairly numerous, acicular, 

 acute or subacute, slendei', ^-^ in. long, glabrous ; flowers small 

 arranged in rather lax elongated spikes ; bracts narrowly lanceo- 

 late, with acute blackish tips, equal in length to the peduncle, 



labrous : bracteoles 2, rather shorter than but very similar to the 

 bracts ; peduncle stout ; perianth more or less urceolate, |-1 lin. 

 long, with external glands, and a ring of hairs at the throat; seg- 

 ments ovate-elliptic to linear, subacute, |— | lin. long, with a dense 

 apical beard; anthers exserted, ^ lin. long; stigma sessile; fruits 

 ellipsoid-globose, 1| lin. long, strongly 10-ribl)ed, prominently reticu- 

 late between the ribs. TJninb. Diss. Thes. 7; FL Cap, ed, ScJadf. 

 209 ; Sond, in Flora, 1857, 358, partly ; A.DC in DC, Prodr. xiv. 

 ^68. T. adpressifoliiimj Sond. in Flora, 1857, 358. 



Coast Region : Tulbagh Div. ; New Kloof, Schlechter . 9034 ! Worcester Div. ; 

 near Bains Kloof, 800 ft., Bohn^, 2928 ! Cape Div. ; £ats and hills around Cape 

 Town, Thunbergl Burchell, 964! Berf/iusl Ludwig, 41! Anderson\ Dregel 

 Ecldon <£• Zegher, 49! Zeghcr, 3810! Wright, 533! Bolus, 2934! 3871! 3919! 

 7126! and Herb. Norm. Anstr.-Afv,, 1362! Wolley-Dod, 2142! 2255 1 2742! 

 ^cJdechter, 243 1 358! Wdms, 3608! 3609.! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 150 ft., 

 ^"^cldechter, 9662 ! Koude River, 700 fb.. Schlcchter, 10451 ! Swellendam Div. ; hills 

 JieaTlEe-^oncrereinde River, Zeyher, 3803 I near Swellendam, Bolus, 8092 ! 

 laversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7018 ! George Div. ; near George, 

 -burchell, 6003 ! Schlcchter, 2469 ! Zwarfcberg Range, Bolus, 2456 ! 



118. T. macrostachyum (A.DC. Esp. Nouv. Thes. 6, partly) ; 



branches elongated, erect, fairly stoutj subterete, glabrous; leaves 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 3-4 lin. long, flat 

 ^nd fleshy, glabrous ■ flowers solitary or 2-3 together in the axils 

 <>f the bracts, very shortly pedunculate ; bracts leaf -like, shortly 

 adnate to the peduncle, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, up to 2 lin, 



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