198 SA^^TALACE.qi (Hill). [Thesiim: 



COA:sT Rkgion : Caledoii ; Onrust River, 3000 ft., ScJikchk r. 9490J 



T. spicatum, ^^ in herb. Thunb. very probably should be referred to this 



Bpeciey, 



123. T. subnudum (Sond. in Flora, 1657, 360) ; steins and 



branches elongated, very slender, finely sulcate, glabrous, almost 

 leafless in the upper parts ; with a few lower leaves long and 

 acicular, |-2 in. long, ^-^ lin. thick, subterete, glabrous ; flowers 

 in rather slender and often elongated terminal spikes; bracts linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute, about as long as the flowers, keeled ; 

 bracteoles similar to the bracts but shorter; perianth |-li li^i- 

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

 acute, hooded, f-l lin. long, with an apical beard of few stout hairs 

 and hairy margins ; anthers exserted, at the base of the perianth- 

 segments, ^ lin. long ; stigma sessile ] fruits ovoid-globose, 2 Im. 

 long, subconspicuously 10-ribbed, very slightly reticulate between 

 the ribs, T. spicatum, E, Meyer in Brege, Zwei Pfl. Documenfc^ 82, 



not e 



Sond 



dsewhere ; A. DC. in DC. Prodr, xiv. G68, partly, not of Linn. ; 

 I in Flora, 1857, 406 in ohs. T. funale, Sond. in Flora, 1857, 



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Var. &, foliosum (A. W. Hill iu Kew Bulletin, 1915, 42) ; stems with scattered 

 leaves on upper poi'tiona. 



Coast Kegion : Clanwilliam Diw ; Olifants River Valley, StcpJ^nis, 7304 ! 

 Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecldou <t Zenker, 56, partly ! New Kloof, 

 500 ft., Schhckter, 9034 I Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Dre^/ea ! Paarl Div. ; 

 Taarl Mouiitaiu, 600 ft., Bolus, 2929! Pdversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 1000 ft., 

 Galpin, 45491 Oudtshorn Div., Miss Britten, 84! Uniondale Div. ; Zwartberg 

 Range near Avontuur, Bolus, 2457 ! Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Berg, F^h'Ji'^ "^ 

 ZeyluY 6 t Var. j8 : Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 500 ft., ScJdecMcr, 7694 1 Hunians- 

 iorp Div. ; Kruisfontein, 500 ft., Galpin, 4550! Port Elizabeth Div.; Port 

 Kli/.abetli, Bolus 1 



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124- T. elatius (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 355); a fleshy shrub 

 several feet high ; branches Jdexuous, terete, glabrous; leaves linear, 

 boat-shaped, keeled^ acute or subacute, 3-7 lin. long, about 1 liii< 

 broad, fleshy, glabrous, at length spreading or recurved ; flowers 

 white, arranged in rather short or subcapitate spikes ; bracts shorter 

 than the flowers, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, 2-3 hn. 

 long, at first adjacent to the flower, at length spreading or recurvedj 

 thick and fleshy, sharply keeled, glabrous ; bracteoles 2, soon falling 

 oflf, linear, acute, a little shorter than the bracts ; flowers large and 

 solitary within the bracts, with a short stout pedicel ; perianth 

 1^-2 lin. long, with conspicuous external glands; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, 1-1^- lin. long, with a dense woolly apical beard 

 of long hairs and a dense ring of short stiff brown hairs in the 

 throat of the tube ; anthers in the tube mainly exserted or partially 

 included, about | lin. long ; style nearly! lin. long, the stigma below 

 the base of the anthers ; fruits contracted at the base, subglobose, 

 nearly 3 lin. long including the persistent perianth, not very con- 



