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Mf/stru^jelalon,] t^ALxVXOPHOKACEl.^i (Wiiglit). 215 



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or ellipsoid, shortly S-lobeJ, glabrous ; ovary ovoid ; style coluiunarj 

 recurved; stii^ma discoid. Harv, in Ann. Nat. Hisf. ser, L ii. 38G, 



HooJl. f. 



Griff. 



. xxii 

 ifr.l 170, IL id, i2, Jiff 



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Ilarvey-Gihson in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, viii. 143, //, 15-16, 

 Balano^jJiora capensisy EcIcL ct Zeyli. ex EifJth.r in DC. Prodr, xvii. 



125. 



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Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; about Caledon Baths, Tho^n, Zcyhcrl Polanatuu 



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2. M. Polemanni (Harv. Geu. S. ^ifr. PL ed. i. 41S); a flcbliy 

 plant about 5 in. highj reddish in all its parts ; leaves narrowly 

 oblanceolate, obtuso or subacute, up to li in. long and 2 lin. wide; 

 spike oblong, 2| in. long; male flower: bract spathulate, ungui- 

 culate, about 3 lin, long, villous above ; bracteoles about lialf as 

 long as the bract, lanceolate, acuminate, hairy on the back in the 

 lower half ; anterior perianth-segment about a quarter longer than 

 the bract, spathulate, unguiculate ; posterior segments much longer 

 than the anterior, deeply concave ; anthers elliptic ; pollen-grains 

 cubical with fluted angles ; female flower : bract lanceolate ; 

 bracteoles as long as the bract, oblong, acute ; perianth-tube oblong ; 

 lobes 3, ovate, acute, slightly shorter than the tube ; ovary oblong, 

 seated on the cushion-like disc ; style more slender than iE ~" 

 stigma only slightly enlarged. Harv. in Ann, Nat, H\ 

 387, f. 20, and in Harv, & Sond. FL Cap, ii. 573; HooJc, f. Trans, 

 Linn, Sac. xxii, 29; Eichhr in DC. Prodr, xvii. 125; Harvey-Gibson 

 in Trans. Linn, Soc, ser, 2, viii. 143. Scyhaliura f Harv, Gen, S, Afr, 

 PL ed, I 315. 



Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; near Wellington, Bolus, 4393 1 Caledun 

 I>iv. ; on mountain sides near the hot springs at Caledonj 900-1000 ft., on roots 

 of Protea incllifera^ Thunb., Bolus^ 7iti5 I and in MacOican and Bolus, Herb, 

 Norm. Austr,'Afr., 136i ! Houw Hoek, on Aspcdalhus sp., Mrs, Dcnys, Ecldonl 

 MacOwan, 2303 1 



3. M. SoUyi (Harvey-Gibson hi Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, viii. 

 153, tt. 15-16); resembling ilf, Thomii, but differing in the following 

 characters : — male flowers : bract spathulate ; bracteoles one- 

 quarter as long as the bract ; periantli-segments slightly concave ; 

 anterior segment rather shorter than the posterior ; pollen-grains 

 cubical or pentagonal, without fluted angles ; female flower : bract 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles shorter than the bract ; perianth subglobose 

 or campauulate, multifid ; ovary ovoid ; stigma trilobcd. 



Coast Region : Caledou Div. ; Caledon Pass, on roots of Protea sp., Mrs, SoUy. 



