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Mi/riccc] MYiucACEJE (Hutchinson). 567 



golden glands ; bracts thick and leathery, lanceolate from a rounder 

 base^ 1-1 1 lin. long, densely covered with small golden coloured 

 glands; fruits globose, 2|-3 lin. in diain., densely covered ^vith 

 warts, the warts covered with scattered glands. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; among rocks at the top of Steeu Berg, 3000 ft., 

 XrausSj 1561 ! Caledon Div. ; Zwart Bevg, Boicie I 



7. M. brevifolia (E. Meyer ex c". DO, in DO. Prodr, xvi.ii. 150); 



stems erect from a woody rhizome, simple, dark -purple when dry, 

 longitudinally ribbed or angular, glandular-puherulous when young, 

 at length glabrous ; leaves fairly densely arranged, ascending, 

 shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, subacute at both ends, f-li in, 

 long, i-| in. broad, with 3-5 rather coarse obtuse teeth on each 

 side in the upper half, rarely a iew subentire, rigidly chartaceous, 

 shini))g and closely black-spotted, but at first glandular above, 

 covered with lemon-yellow or orange glands below, the glands with 

 interspaces about their own width ; midrib prominent on both 

 surfaces, becoming very slender towards the apex of the leaf j lateral 

 nerves 7-10 on each side of the midrib, diverging from the midrib 

 at a wide angle, mostly rather obscure ; petiole 1 lin, long, some- 

 times hairy ; flowers dicecious ; male inflorescence axillary, solitary, 

 sessile, about one-third the length of the leaves or less, densely 

 flowered ; rhachis fairly stout, nearly glabrous, with 3-4 series of 

 imbricate ovate-triangular obtuse bracts at the base ; bracts at the 

 base of each flower solitary, broadly obovate-spathulate, scarcely 

 1 lin. long and |- lin. broad, membranous-chartaceous, glabrous 

 except at the very shortly ciHolate apices ; stamens usually 2 ; 

 filaments about j lin. long, connate for two-thirds of their length ; 

 anthers i- lin. long ; female inflorescence solitary, axillary, about a 

 quarter the length of the leaves ; rhacliis densely covered by the 



flowers ; bracts solitary at the base of each flower, very broadly 



ovate, almost truncate at the top, submembranous, f lin. long, 

 glabrous except for the shortly ciliolate margin; hypogynous scales 

 overlapping, suborbicular, ciliate, about l- lin. broad ; ovary glabrous ; 

 styles flattened, free to the base, 1| lin. long, glabrous, Drege, 

 Zwei rjl, Documente, 45 ; A. Cheval Monogr. Mfjncac. 158. 



Coast Regiox : Stutterlieim Div. ; Summit of Dohne Peak, 4600 ft., Galpin, 

 245S! Queenatown Div.; Winter Berg, 5000-GOOO ft., Zet/her, 51 Stockeustrom 

 Div. ; Kat Berg, ^ass fields, 4000-5000 ft., Drege, a! 



Central Hegion: Somer:=et Div. ; at the top of the Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., 



MacOwan, 1925 ! 



Kalahaki Region : Transvaal ; Belford, 6000 ft., Worsdell I 



According to MacOwan, this Mijinca, owing to continual burning over from 

 grass ^ive^y forma a creeping underground stem often an inch thick. 



8, M. ovata (Weiicll. f, in Barfcl. & Wendl. Beitr. ii. 3) ; a 



glaucesceut shrub about 2 ft. high ; branches rather elongated, 

 deasely leafy, rather stout, ribbed, marked ratlier sparingly with 

 small lenticels, dark coloured and with a glaucous ''bloom," other- 



