202 SAXTALACE.E (Hill.) [Thcsidivm. 



Bracts and stem-angles conspicuously acabridulous 

 or scabriJ-fimbriate ; bracts winged ; leaves 



f-lin. long (7) longifoliim. 



Female plants : 



Stems and bracts densely hairy; bracts crowded, 



inibficate ; plants 4-5 in. high (4) hirtum. 



Stems and bracts verruculose, scabridulous or snb- 



glabrous : 

 Bracts and stems subglabrous ; slender annuals ... (5) minus. 



Bracts and stems verruculose or scabridulous ; woody 

 subskrubs : 

 Bracts lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long, horny ; flowers 



in 2-flowered cymules ; leaves 2-4 lin. long... (6) fruticulosum. 



Bracts linear-lanceolate, 6-8 lin. long, herbaceous ; 



flowers solitary ; leaves f-1 in. long (7) longifolium. 



1/T. exocarpseoides (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 365); rootstock 



stout, woody ; stems erect, woody below, stouter in the female 

 plants, glabrous, green, terete, ribbed, 10-15 in. high; branches 

 and branchlets elongate, slender, flexuous especially in the male 

 plants, conspicuously ribbed, becoming subangled towards the 

 apex, ribs horny, translucent ; leaves reduced to fleshy subrotund 

 scales ; flowers solitary, regularly and somewhat sparsely arranged 

 in elongated flexuous spikes ; bracts and bracteoles broadly sub- 

 rotundj fleshy, keeled, about \ lin. long, much shorter than the 

 flowers, margins membranous and fimbriate ; male flowers : perianth 

 about ^ lin. long ; tube saucer-like ; segments ovate, spreading, 

 \ lin. long; anthers exserted ; female flowers ; perianth -J lin. long; 

 segments lanceolate, subacute, margins infolded, subspreading ; 

 style \ lin. long ; fruit subsessile, globose, |-| lin. long, with con- 

 spicuous reticulations. Thesium microcarpinn, A. DC. Esj). Now. 

 Thes, 5 ; SoncL in Flora, 1857,405. Thesidium mkrocarimmy A^DC 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 674. 



Coast Hegiox : Swellendam Div. ; IIt;ioaiiua3 Kloof, Zcyher, 3S14 ! llivers- 

 dale Div. ; hills near the Gouritz River, 2U0 ft., ScJdechter, 5717 ! Albany Div. ; 

 Bothas Berg, near Grahamstown, 2200 ft., MacOvsan^ 1188 ! 



2. T. Thunbergii (Sond. in Flora, 1857, 364) ; a snbshrub, more 



or less prostrate, entirely glabrous; stems 10-15 in. long, ribbed, 

 angled above, with numerous lateral flexuous branches ] branches 

 conspicuously ribbed or angled, subtriquetrous, angles horny^ trans- 

 lucent ; leaves reduced to fleshy subulate or linear-subulate scales 

 1-lA lin. long; flowers remote on the axillary branchlets ; bracts 

 subrotund, navicular, subacute or obtuse, fleshy, ^ lin. Ion 

 bracteoles broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute, navicular, margins mem- 

 branous, subimbricate, sharply keeled, all shorter than the flo^vers; 

 male flowers solitary in the bract-axils ; perianth | lin. long ; seg- 

 ments \ lin. long, spreading ; female flowers solitary ; perianth 

 \ lin. long ; segments erect, flat, ovate ; disc more or less con- 

 spicuous ; style J lin. long ; fruit ovoid-globose, about f lin. in 



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