42 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
lower node; the base of the pedicel is adnate to the bract, and the bracteoles are 
inserted at the point where the two separate. The perianth-lobes are triangular- 
ovate, a little over 3 line long, and slightly involuted at the tip, more so in the fruit. 
The 4 or 5 stamens have very short filaments, behind which is a tuft of a few rather 
long upwardly-directed hairs. The ovoid nut is 8-10-ribbed, with a few oblique 
connecting reticulations, is 1 line long by % line in diameter, and broader than the 
persistent perianth. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. (no. 42); Zomba, Sept. 
Belongs to the section Huthesium, and is near Thesium Wightianum, Wall, an East 
Indian species, from which it is easily distinguished by its subrigid habit, longer linear 
leaves, and smaller fruit. The flower of Th. Wightianum is half as large again, and the 
perianth-lobes are markedly spreading and papillose-pilose. 
Tuestum ($ FRisEA) WHYTEANUM, Rendle, sp. n. (Plate IX. figs. 1-5.) Suffrutex, 
glaber, ramis tenuibus suberectis, pedalibus, infra nudis, supra foliosis, sub vertice 
ramulosis, ramulis foliosis vel floriferis; foliis sessilibus, ramorum uncialibus, 
linearibus, crassiusculis, subteretibus, pungentibus, ramulorum brevioribus, plano- 
convexis; floribus solitariis, axillaribus, vel singulis binisve in ramulis parvis; 
bracteis et bracteolis foliis consimilibus, his autem minoribus, flore et fructu duplo 
brevioribus ; perianthii lobis quinque, apice involutis, cucullatis, et longe pilosis; 
antheris glabris, pendentibus; stylo brevissimo, stigmate papilloso; nuce sub- 
globoso, decemcostato, oblique reticulato. 
A glabrous shrub with branches a foot long, leafless below, leafy above, branching 
near the top; leaves of the primary branches subterete, longitudinally channelled, an 
inch or more long, of the secondary shorter, linear-subulate, flattened above, rounded 
beneath. Inflorescence apparently a long leafy spike; the few uppermost flowers 
solitary in the axils of the leaves, those next below terminating short axillary shoots, the 
lowest in pairs, terminal and lateral on the shoots; the bract and pair of bracteoles 
resembling the smaller leaves, the former about equal to the length of the flower, the 
latter about half. Flowers about 14 lines long. Perianth cup and lobe nearly 1 line, the 
five lobes involute and hooded at the apex with a tuft of hairs, hairs continued about 
halfway down the margins; the five glabrous anthers opposite the perianth-lobes fixed 
by a short filament and hanging down into the cavity ; a tuft of hairs springs from the 
perianth behind the filament and ascending is attached to the top of the anther. Style 
. very short, with a papillose, scarcely swollen stigma, on a level with the base of the 
anthers. Fruit almost sessile, ovoid-globose or nearly globular, a little more than a line 
long and nearly as broad, crowned by the much narrower subcylindrical perianth, with 
. ten ribs, the alternate ones less pronounced, connected by irregular reticulations. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. No. 45. 
_ The discovery of this species extends the distribution of the well-marked section Frisea 
from South to Tropical Africa, 
