Thcsium.] santalace.^ (Hill). 107 



South Africa : without locality, OsbecJc I Wnilich I 



Coast Regiox: YamliynsJoip Div. ; Winciliuek, 1000 ft., SchkcJUcv, SoiSl 

 Claiivvilliaai Div. ; Lammskraal, 1150 ft., DielSj 779 ! Malniesbnry Div. ; near 

 Hopefield, Baclnnann, 1694 ! 16i>5 I near Darling, 100 ft., Schleckter, 53371 Cape 

 Div., 80-1000 ft. ; near Cape Town, 100 ft., Bolus, lltrh. Xorni. Austr.-Afr., 

 1360 ! IJck lon, 793 ! Wynberg, Bolus, 2031 ! Scldcchttr, 215 ! 7545 ! Muizenberg, 

 Bolus, 595B^ paT^Tly ! Kenilwortb, Bolus, 7049 ! Herzog House Ketreat^ WoUey- 

 D<}d, 2364 ! near Vygeskraal, Wolky-Dod, 2371 ! Liesbeck River, Btiyius ! 

 Zei/her, 793 ! 4S79 ! 



121, T. spicatum (Linn. Mant. Alt. 214); stem.s simple or 

 branched^ grooved or angular, glabrous ; branches erect or sub- 

 erect ; lower leaves erect, acicular, up to 2h in. long, acute, about 

 J lin. thick, terete except for a narrow groove on the upper surface, 

 glabrous ; upper leaves adpressed to the stem, with spreading tips, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, 3-4 lin. long, concave on the upper surface, 

 rigid, glabrous ; flowers arranged in dense thick terminal cylindrical 

 spikes -|-2 in, long; bracts as long as or shorter than the tlowers, 

 obovate-oblanceolate, acutely acuminate, 2-3 liu. long, 1-11 lin. 

 broad, with a black thick fleshy keel and rather membranous 

 reddish margins, glabrous ; bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 as long as, but much narrower than the bracts ; perianth 1^-2 lin. 

 long, with a ring of hairs at the throat ; segments linear-lanceolate, 

 subacute, nearly 2 lin. long, with a stifT adpressed beard of hairs ; 

 anthers exserted from the j^erianth-tube, J- lin. long; stigma sessile. 

 Sotjd, in Flora, 1857, 360; .4.1)6'. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 6G8, excl 

 EcJcloriy Zeyher <& Drege and syns. T. divcrsi/oluim and T, snhnndinii^ 

 Sond, 



South Africa : without locality, Otto ! ChammOj 14c ! specimen in the Lhinean 

 Ilfrhariuni ! 



Coast Regiox : Cape Div. ; Devils Peak, Berghisl Table Mountain, Barchdl, 

 550! 619! 1500 ft., Bolus, 4206^1 Liesbeck River, Bcryias\ Simons Bay, 

 IViijhil Ringyohl tt* Jlor/ersl Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, 3400-4600 ft., 

 JhluSj 7423 ! without precise locality, Thorn ! 



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122. T. bathyschistum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. IIG); 

 stems erect, about 9 in. high, branched in the upper part, glabrous ; 

 branches erect ; lower leaves acicular, subterete, obtuse, f-l-]- lin, 

 long, ^ lin, thick, fleshy, glabrous ; flowers arranged in short dense 

 capitate or subcapitate spikes ; heads composed of 3-flowered cymes ; 

 bracts lanceolate or a few of the lower ovate-lanceolate, with sub- 

 acute often blackish tips, 2-3 lin. long, rather sharply keeled, with 

 slightly membranous entire margins, glabrous ; bracteoles linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, usually nearly as long as the bracts ; 

 perianth 1| lin. long, with a ring of hairs in the throat ; segments 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, hooded, 1| lin, long, with a 

 beard of stout stiff hairs within the hood, and hairy margins, and a 

 I'big of short hairs at the throat of the tube; anthers exserted, 

 inserted at the base of the perianth-segments, \ lin. long ; stigma 

 sessile; fruits subglobose, capped by the long persistent perianth, 

 2^ lin. long, distinctly 10-ribbed, slightly reticulate between the ribs. 



