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triloculare, apice pilosum ; stylus filiformis, 06 cm. longus ; fructus 

 ignotus. 



Cape : Slopes of Cold Bokkeveld Mts. opposite Warm Baths, 

 Oliphant's River Valley, 7114. 



Shrublet about 23 cm. high, stem terete, pubescent when young, 

 becoming glabrous ; leaves linear-lanceolate, appressed, channelled 

 above, convex beneath, gibbose at the apex, subsessile, ciliate on the 

 margin and keel, about 0-5 cm. long, 01 cm. wide ; inflorescence 

 subcapitate, aggregated at the ends of the branches, sessile, globose, 

 about 05 cm. in diam. ; bracts obovate, obtuse, mucronate, mem- 

 branous, ciliate, 03 cm. long, 0125 cm. broad ; flowers shortly 

 pedicellate; pedicels 01 cm. long, glabrous; sepals oblanceolate- 

 spathulate obtuse, ciliate towards the apex, 0-2 cm. long; petals 

 narrowly obovate-cuneate, unguiculate, claw ciliate, - 5 cm. long, 

 01 cm. broad ; fertile stamens equalling the petals, glabrous ; 

 staminodes about 0*25 cm. long, pilose especially towards the middle, 

 becoming glabrous towards the apex ; ovary 3-celled, pilose at the 

 apex ; style filiform about - 6 cm. long ; fruit unknown. 



Plate VIII. B., Fig. 1, sketch of branch, nat. size ; 2, leaf, 

 dorsal view : 3, bract ; 4, flower ; 5, calyx ; 6, petal ; 7, staminode ; 

 8, stamen ; 9, gynaeceum — all the latter x 4. 



BUSERACEAE. 



By Ruth Glover. 

 1. COMMIPHORA. 



1. C. saxicola, Engl., Bot. Jahrb., x., 283. 



Damaraland : Common on Namib at Welwitsch, 4412, 4150. 



2. C. oblanceolata, Schinz, in Bull. Herb. Boiss., Ser. ii., viii., 633. 

 Bushmanland : Mt. slopes at Ougrabies, 3567. Damaraland : 



Sides of ravines near Welwitsch, 4149. 



CELASTRACEAE. 



By Ruth Glover. 

 1. GYMNOSPORIA. 

 1. G. peduncularis, Sim, Forest Flora, p. 184, probably. 

 Cape : Summit of Nardouw Mt., 5430. Specimens incomplete. 



