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FL Cap. li. 326 ; ±BC. in DC. Prodr. xiv, Q\S ', Marlotlt, Fl S, Afr. 

 i. 162, /. 37 E, figs, 81 A. G. sp,, Drrge, I.e. 117. Ophh-a strlcta, 

 Linn. ManL Alt. 229. 



Coast Regiox: Cape Div. ; Table Mouutam, Thaiibergl Cooper, 2491! Ecklon, 

 3/1 ! Dnhjc^ a! Wilms, 949 or 3949 ! Siehei'l Harvey \ Pappel WolUy-Dod, 54fi » 

 21231 3054! Bolus, 3943! Ziyher, 2654! Bredasdoq^ Div.; Eliin, SchhdUcr, 

 /C37 ! Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Boivie ! Riversdale Div. ; 

 Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4558 ! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 5961 ! Galpin 

 4559! near George, Ihegey 8161 ! 



2. G. pinifolia (Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 326); a 

 shrub ; branches woody, erect ; branchlets shorfc, ascending, covered 

 with a fiae downy pubescence ; leaves linear or narrowly elliptic- 

 linear, margins strongly inrolled, subacute, narrowing at the base 

 into a definite petiole, 6-8 lin. long, ^-} lin. broad, glabrous abo\-e 

 or nearly so, grey when dry, finely pubescent below ; petioles 

 2-1 lin. long, finely pubescent, broadening at the base; flowers in 

 *--3-flowered cymules ; bracts about equal in length to the flowers, 

 hemispherical, bilobed for a third of their length, keeled below, 

 truncate, membranous, chestnut-brown ; perianth-segments J lin. 

 long, fleshy, subacute, concave, with thickened margins and 

 prominent fleshy protuberances or flanges at the base, densely 

 hairy on the back with conspicuous white wavy hairs ; style about 

 4 lin. long, surrounded by disc-hairs; fruit crowned externally with 

 a dense ring of hairs, glabrous below. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, 2800 ft., MacOtvan in Herb. Norm. 

 Austr.^Afr., 9181 Caledon Div. ; mountains near Grietjes Gat, 2000-4000 ft., 

 Ecldon and Zeyher ! 



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3. G. hirsuta (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 73) ; a 



shrub ; branches woody, erect, branches and branchlets ascending, 

 villous; leaves linear-lanceolate, with strongly revolute margins, 

 slightly subauricled at the base 4-5 lin. long, ?|-} Vm. broad, villous 

 or strigulose-villuus above, villous below ; petioles very short, densely 

 vulous; flowers sessile in S-flowered cymules; bracts less than half 

 the length of the flowers, broadly ovate, rounded, entire or slightly 

 notched, chestnut-brown, membranous, concave, not keeled ; perianth- 

 seginents obovate or broadly obovate, subacute, | lin. long, with 

 thickened flanges at the base and straight silky, somewhat incon- 

 spicuous, white hairs on the back projecting slightly beyond the 

 apex of the segments ; stamens with filaments about ^ lin. long ; 

 style I \{jx, long ; disc Avith a tuft of hairs ; fruits minutely 

 pubescent over the whole surface. ABC in DC Prodr. xiv. 618; 

 f^ond. in Ilarv. cf Sond. Fl. Cap, ii. 327. 



Co^ST Region: Clanvvilliam Div. ; Wupporthal, 1500-2000 ft., Dregel Cold 

 i^okkeveld, near Tvveefontein. 5000 ft., Schlechter, 10125 I 

 Central Region: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, 1700 ft., BoIuSj 7454 t 



>• 6. stricta (A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 618); a shrub, 2-5 ft. 

 "lyt; stems erect, woody, quadrangular and striate with sharp 



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