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Thesidiitvi,] santalace.e (Hill). 205 



^ 6. T. fruticulosum (A, W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 99) ; a 



subshnib, about 1 ft. high ; stems erect or spreading, miich-branched 

 ill male plants, stout, woody, sharply ribbed or subangled, ribs 

 verruculose or subscabridulous ; leaves near the base, linear- 

 lanceolate, with horny translucent keel and membranous margins, 

 -^-^ in. long ; male plants : branches numerous, stiff, spreading, 

 with prominent verruculose or subscabrous ribs, entirely and more 

 or less densely floriferous ; bracts leaf-like, lanceolate, acute, about 

 Ih lin. long, sharply keeled, flat above, margins and keel translucent, 

 verruculose or subscabridulous ; bracteoles 1| lin. long, longer than 

 flowers ; flowers subsessile in axillary 3-flowered cymules; perianth 

 f lin. long ; segments triangular-ovate, |- lin. long ; anthers about 

 xV hn. long; female plants: branches stout, erect, crowded, with 

 lateral axillary inflorescences ; stem-angles prominent, horny, 

 verruculose ; bracts 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, keel-wing sharp, 

 decurrent, horny and scabrous, margins infolded, scabrous ; 

 bracteoles similar to the bracts, longer than the flowers ; flowers 

 m 2-flowered cymules in the bract-axils, sessile ; perianth about 

 i lin. long ; segments erect, J lin. long ; style stout, |- lin. long ; 

 fruit globose, | lin. in diam., su])sessile, conspicuously reticulate. 



South Africa : without locality, Harvei/, 709 S&9l 



Coast Region: ^ape Biv. ;''^ Table Mountain, in Groene Kloof, Galpin, 

 4556 ( ? ) ! Slang Kop, 700"ft., Wollcy-Bod, 3187 ( c5 ) ! slopes near BufPels Bay, 

 \Volley~Dod, 2869 ! Durban Hills, Guthrie, 2407 6 ! CaledonDiv. ; near Vogelgat, 

 ■IC'OO ft., Sddechter^ 10414^! (?) 



7. T. longifolium (A. W. Hill in Ke^y Bulletin, 1915, 99); a 

 subshrub, about 15 in. high; stems erect, Avoody at the base, 

 conspicuously ribbed and angled, ribs and angles scabrid-verruculose ; 

 leaves at the base narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, keeled, |"1 in. 

 or more lonix, niarsfins and keel translucent, scabrid-verruculose or 

 imbriate; liowers distributed uniformly and fairly densely along 

 the Avhole length of the branches ; male plants : bracts spreading, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, Ir^ lin. long, margins and keel-wing trans- 

 • . lucent, scabridulous or scabrid-timbriate, keel-wing conspicuously 



decurrent; bracteoles f lin. long, margins infolded; ilowers in 

 f axillary glonierules of about 5-flowered cymules ; perianth h hn. 



long ; segments ^ lin. long ; style rudiment often present ; female 

 plants : bracts leafdike, conspicuous, lanceolate, acute, ascending 

 w slightly recurved, 6-8 lin. long; bracteoles 4-6 lin. long, with 

 margins infolded, keel-wing in both sharp with margins translucent 

 scabridulous or scabrid-timbriate ; flowers infolded in the large 

 hracteoles, solitary ; perianth ^ lin. long ; segments \ Hn. long ; 

 disc prominent ; fruit globose, a^bout 1 lin. in diam., stipitate, with 

 conspicuous reticulations. 



Coast Region- : Cape Div. : eastern side of Table :Mountaui, 1200 ft.. Bolus, 



•1607 9 ! 460S 6\ 



The female plant is the largest in any known specie.s and may be easily 

 recognised by its conspicuous leaves and leafy bracts. The male plants resemble 

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