0-^)jridicarpos.] Santalage.4-: (Hill). 207 



subvilatej minutely puberulouSj 1-2 lin. long ; perianth 2|— 3^ lin. 

 longj with or without 5 subdependeut glandular bodies or callosities 

 at the base and with 5 external ribs continued down the ovary, ribs 

 and perianth externally subglabrous or minutely puberulous ; 

 perianth-tube 2-2 ^ lin. long ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 spreading, |"1 lin. long; stamens partly exserted ; filaments in- 

 serted just below throat of perianth-tubCj |-f lin. long ; anthers 

 ^- lin. long, attached at the apex by a tuft of long perianth-hairs ; 

 style 2-2| lin. long; fruit ovoid or subglobosoj 2^^-3 lin. long; 

 2tt lin. in diam. (4-5 lin. in diam., Harvey), smootli, with depressed 

 ribs and reticulations. Harw Thes. Gap. ii. 63, t. 199; MarJofh, 

 FL S. Af}\ i. 161. Thesium macrocarjnimj E. Jleyer in Drege, Zwei 

 Pfl. Documented 143, 226. 



Coast Rkgion: Albany DJv. ; near Grahamstown, Srhlcchter, 26671 Head \ 

 Bolus, 1929! Blue Krantz, Barcltdl, o6i6\ between Blue Krantz and Kowi 

 Poort, Burchell, 3062 1 King Williamstown Div. ; Yellow-wood River, lODU- 

 2000 ft., Drege\ near King Williamstown, Tyson, 1008! Komgha Div, ; near 

 the Kei River, Flauagan in MacOLcan, Herb. Austr,-Af)'., 1528 ! British Kaffraria ; 

 without precise locality, Cooper, 30 I 



Central Region : 8omei*set Div. ; without precise locality, BoicJcer ! 



Kalahari Kkgion : Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rchmaiw^ 5961 ! near Barberton, 

 Galpln, 593 t Waterval Ouder, Rogers ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani District, Miss Pcgler, 3 ! Xatal ; Inanda, 

 ^\ood, 612! Van Reenen.s Pass, Rehmann^ 7266 1 and without precise locality, 

 Gerrard, 159 j Cooper, IISS ! 



The specimens from the Transvaal, and especially that from WaterAal Onder, are 

 much more puberulous than those from other regions and the external glandular 

 bodies appear to be ab;=ent Ivoin tlie base of the perianth-tube. 



I\^. RHOIACARPOS, A.DC. 



Flowers liermaphrodite. Perianilt-tuhe slender, obcoiiic ; segments 

 5, ovate, acute, persistent, \vitli a tnft of hairs attached to the 

 anthers. Stamens with slender filaments ; anthers 2-celIed, ovoid. 

 T)!8c subconcave, with short prominent obtuse lobes. Orar^ inferior, 

 fleshy; ovules 5, hanging from the apex o£ the straight cylindric 

 placenta; style cylinclric-conical ; stigmas 5, minute, alteraatin 

 with the perianth-segments. Drupe ovoid, crowned with the per- 

 sistent perianth-segments ; seed bony. 



A shrub ; branches stiff, erect, sometimes flexuous and snbscandent, quadrangular, 

 with well-marked angles, younger branches almost winged ; leaves opposite, flat, 

 margins slightly revolute, sessile, with a prominent midrib, varnished above ; 

 flowers in short axillary or terminal racemes or panicles composed of S-flowered 



if 



fnilt fleshy, red, edible, one-seeded. Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. ii. 333. Hamil- 

 tmiu, Harv. Gen, S. Afr. Tl. ed. i. 29S. Colpoon, Berg. ; Benth. d- Hook. f. Gen. 

 J'i. iii. 225, partly. 



-L)istrib. One endemic species. 



Bentham and Hooker reduced De Candolle's genus Rhoiacarpos to CoJpoon, Berg., 

 put this latter genus has here been merged with Osyrh, Linn., since the character 

 of the opposite leaves on which it ^^'a3 mainly based has not been found to hold 

 good. There is also no floral difierence between Colponn, Berg., and Osyrxs, Linn. 



