i 



Ospis.] SANTALACE.^: (Hill). 209 



longj mucronatej narrowed to the base, rigidly coriaceous^ glaucous, 

 veins (except the midrib) immersed and almost invisible ; male 

 flowers in shortly peduncled axillary umbellate cymes ; bracts 

 minute, lanceolate; pedicels larger than the flowers; buds glo)>ose, 

 ^ lin. in diam. ; perianth-lobes 3 or 4, o\ ate-triangular, with a con- 

 spicuous disc ; female flowers usually solitary ; ben y oblong, scarlet, 

 the size of a small pea. A, Bkk Tent. FL Ahj^s. ii. 23G ; A.BG, in 

 Be, Pjodr. xiv. 633 ; Enr/f. Hochjdnrg^fi, Trap. Afr. 199; Srhinz in 

 Bull, Herh, Boiss. iv. App. iii. 55 ; Schreinf. in BnJL Herb. Boiss. iv. 



Apj). ii. 152 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr, PL Welw. I 938 ; Balmi- IJUl in 

 Byer, FL Trap. Afr. vi. i. 433. O. compressa, A.DC. in BC. Proilr. 

 xiv. 634; EngL Jahrh, xxx. 305, var. /3 ohlomjifolia, A.BC. Lc. 



Fiisanns alternifolia, B, Br. in Salty Ahyss. App. Ixiii., name onhj, 

 CoJpoon compressam, Berg. Bescr, PL Cap. 38, /. l^fig. 1. Fusanus 

 compressus, Lam. III. iii. 435, /. 842, SomL in Flora,\d>bl, 3G5. 



Vab, ^j speciosa (A. W. Hill) ; differs from tlie type in lubust habit and almost 

 leafless, much exserted inrioreHcences, with larger bracts and flowers. 



Coast Regiox : Cape Div. ; Fish Hoek, Woltey-Dod, GG7 ! Camps Bay, Ziylur, 

 311 ! BurchdL ^^^^ ! 842 ! Simons Ba}^ Grey \ Wright ! Table :\rountain, Thanleyj ! 

 MacOivan, Herb. Nor^n. Austr.-Afr., 574 ! Drege, a! and without precis elocality, 

 Hoolcer] Annstrontj] WaUlch I Pappe \ Stelleubosch Div.; near Lowrys Pass, 

 BurclitlL 82S4! Riversdale Div.; (iarcias Pass, PhllUps, 399! near Zoetemelks 

 River, Burchellj 6629 ; Mossel Bay Div. ; near landing place at Mossei Bay, 

 Burchell, 6245! Kny^na Div.; Pietteubergs Bay, BnrchU, 5327! Humansdorp 

 Div. ; north side of Kromnie River, Burchell, 4853 I Albany Div. ; Grabamstown, 

 MacOwan, 43 I BroekhTiisens Poort 1500-2000 ft., Galpin, 22 ! Queenstown Div. ; 

 mountain gullies near Queenstown, 4000 ft., GaJphi, 1577! British Kaffraria and 

 Eastern Districts, Cooper, 50 ! 225 ! Var. j9 : Caledon Div. ; near Houw Hoek, 

 1100 ft., Bolu.^ ! near Hermanns Pieters Fontein, 100 ft.. Bolus ! 



Central Ri-gion : Somerset Biw ; mountain above Commadagga, Burchell, 

 3327! Graaf Reinet Div.; Compass Berg, Shaiv\ Yoor Sneeuw Berg, BarcheU, 

 2858! Cave Mountain, near Graatf Reinet, 3500 ft., Bolus, 207! Oude Berg, near 

 Graaff Reinet, 3S00 ft., Bolus, 207 ! Alisval North Div. ; Elands Hoek, near Aliwal 

 North, Bolus, 194 ! Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, Amott 1 Philipstown Div. ; near 

 Petrusville, Burchdl, 2696 ! Ba vers Pan, Burchell, 271!^ I 



--vv^ It., ^tjtfts Jaeenaertz, ^6o ! z^o \ Moorariir, iniss ntrimrn^, ^xuo : 



Eastehn Rkgion : Natal ; Murchison, 1000 ft., Wood, 3004 ! Alexandra Diat. : 

 Uumisa, 2300 ft., Rudath, 1128 ! 



Al^o in Tropical Africa. 



Cooper on his la) iel to Xo. 50 British Kaffraria adds ^'Bark Bosch" used for 

 tanning leather, and Bolus makes a suuilar remark un his sheets 207, and gives the 

 name »' Wilde Granaaf-^fmits edible. 



VI. GRUBBIA, Berg. 



Flowers hermaplirodlte, sessile, arranged in 3- or 2-flo\verecl 

 axillary cymules or crowdeil in axillary strobili. Peri ant Ji-tnle 

 sljort, adnate to tlic ovary ; segments 4, greenish, ovate or obovate, 



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