200 SAKTALACE^ (Hill). ITIicsium. 



acute, 2-3 lin. long, concave or flat on the tipper surface, rounded 

 on the lower, thick and fleshy, glabrous ; flowers arranged in small 

 dense subglobose beads 3-4 lin, in diam. ; bracts linear-oblong, 

 acute, nearly as L»ng as the flowers, fleshy, slightly keeled; 

 bracteoles nearly as long as the bracts but narrower; perianth 1^- 

 lin. long, with conjipicuous external glands and a ring of throat 

 hairs ; segments ovate, obtuse, f lin. long, flat, with a dense apical 

 woolly board ; anthers i lin. long ; filaments attached in the tube, 

 but the anthers slightl}' exserted ; stigma sessile ; fruits not seen. 



Coast Region: "Worcester Div. ; Matroosberg, 6500 ft., Marloth, 2252 (in Herb. 

 Marlotli, not of Herb. Eulus) ! 



127. T, brachygyne (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 117); 



steins very slender, branched, ^ lin. thick, slightly angulai', glabrous ; 

 branches ascending, sparingly leafy ; leaves scattered, slender, sub- 

 terete, acute, 3-6 lin. long, about ^ lin, thick, distinctly warted 

 when dry, otherwise glabrous ; flowers arranged in small globose 

 terminal clusters about 2 lin. in diam., often with a younger shoot 

 from just below one side of the older clusters; bracts shorter than 

 the flowers, narrowly lanceolate, acutely acuminate, with slightly 

 membranous entire margins, glabruus ; bracteoles reaching to the 



base of the perianth, subulate, acute ; perianth f lin. long, with a 



ring of hairs in the throat ; segments oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 

 I lin, long, rather densely bearded with woolly hairs ; anthers 

 exserted from the perianth-tube, about \ lin. long; stigma sessile; 



fruits <jvoid-g]obose, stipitate, li lin. long, including the stipe and 

 persistent perianth, distinctly 10-ribbed and reticulate. 



Coast Region : Paarl Div. ; mouutains near French Hoekj 2800-SSOO fc, 

 Sch lechter, 9247, .^297 ! 



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128. T. Patersonse (A. W, Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 36) ; stem 



about 9 in. high, sparingly branched from the base or near the base, 

 slightly sulcate, glabrous ; branchlets ascending ; leaves lineal^, 

 acute, sub terete or sometimes somewhat flattened on the upper 

 surface, 2-8 lin. long, thick, glabrous ; flowers in 3-5-tto\\ ered 

 cymules arranged in dense terminal ovoid spikes about | in. long ; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the flowers, greenish 

 when dry, glabrous, with narrow membranous entire margins ; 

 bracteoles much shorter than the bracts; perianth nrceolate, Ij 

 lin. long, with conspicuous external glands and a ring of throat 

 hairs; segments lanceolate, subacute, I lin. long, Avith a dense apical 

 beard of woolly hairs and hairy margins; anthers \ lin. long, 

 exserted ; stigma sessile ; fruits not seen. 



Coast Rkgiox: Port Elizabeth Div, ; Walmer, 3frs. Fata-son, 682 I 792! 



