484 RHAMNEA (Sond.) [Phylicd, 
most leaves sessile, solitary or spiked, spike lax, shorter than the leaves ; 
calyx minute, tomentose; capsule obovate-turbinate, smooth, with a 
small area. Dissert. de Phylica, p. 8. P. parviflora e. E. Mey. in Herb. 
Drege, not of Bergius. 
Has. Mount. Zwartebergen, near Vrolyk, 3-4000 ft., Drege. Aug. (Herb. 
Thunb., Sond., T.C.D.) 
Over 2 feet high. Branches and twigs filiform, abbreviate, greyish. Lower leaves 
about 1 inch long, 1} line wide, the upper 5-3 lines long, }-} line wide. Flowering 
branches paniculate. Flowers in the lower axils spiked ; spike few-flowered, brac- ~ 
teate, 4-6 lines long ; in the upper axils solitary, whitish downy. Calyx about 1 
line long ; segments spreading, acute. Capsule blackish when dry, smooth, the size 
of a pea.—Very near P. paniculata, but the leaves and the area are much smaller. 
7. P. eryptandroides (Sond.); branches rigid; twigs simple, swb- 
glabrous; leaves spreading, secundate, linear, acute, with revolute mat- 
gins, convex, glabrous and papillose above, whitish downy beneath, 
young ones adpressed-pubescent ; flowers sessile, glomerate or spiked at 
the summit of corymbose peduncles; calyx whitish tomentose ; capsule — 
ovate-globose, woolly, at length glabrate; area as large as the capsule, 
P. rosmarinifolia, E. Meyer in Herb. Dreg. ec. 
ees Roodeberge, 2-3500 ft. Nov. Drege. Kardow, Zeyh. 323. (Herb., Sond., 
Shrub, 2-3 feet high ; branches erect, virgate. Leaves circ. 6 lines long, 1 line 
wide. Corymb. }-1 inch long and wide; peduncles at the upper part with 6-10 — 
_ Sessile flowers, formed in a head-like spike. Calyx campanulate, 1 line long, seg- 
bortaingescras Capsule of the size of a pea, 
_ 8. P. rigidifoli: -(Sond.); branches rigid; twigs simple, minutely 
down LY 5 leaves erect,sub-appressed, linear, acute, convex, papillose above, 
whitish downy beneath; flowers pedicellate, disposed in a short, ovate 
or pyramidal, coloured panicle; pedicels as long as the tomentose prac- 
teas ; calyx yellowish, tomentose ; capsule truncate ovate, woolly, at — 
length glabrate ; area as large as the capsule. P. rosmarinifolva, Ee 
Meyer, b. — 
Var. 8. thymifolia ; leaves shorter, spike ovate, calyx whitish. Sow- 
langia thymifolia, Presl. 
- Has. Vanstaadensberg, Bloedrivier, Drege, 6771. Uitkomst, sandy places, Zeyh. 
> Ba . . Pp 2 
324. Var. B. stony places Kend s Herb. 
Meso Ne bet). ee ee Ob ee 
1-14 ft. high ; branches erect. Leaves rigid, 6 lines 1 t line wide, sulcate 
ac Panicle dense, 6-9 lines long. po Poti ~s e sous the lower, 
a. —o- a = oe 1 line long, as long as the pepe 
a capes st a acute, Capsule about 3 lines long, apiculate by ot 
: Bs P, lutescens (Sond.); much branched, branches fastigiate, corym- 
pene twigs pubescent; leaves spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
tuse, callous, puberulous, at length smooth above, tomentose beneath, 
the Fe margins ; flowers pedicellate, axillary, solitary, longer than 
Ai aceous bractea, disposed in a laa, terminal, leafy raceme ; caly® 
yr pe se. Soulangia lutescens, EB. § Z.! 1043. — ged 
, oD. poort, Zeyh. 2223. Drege, Hoon Airey ‘(Heerb., Sond 
