268 Annals of the South African Museum. 



pedicelli graciles, 0"2-0*3 cm. longi, bibracteolatii, bracteolis vix 

 O'l cm. longis ; calyx 5partitus, segmentis linearibus subacutis, 

 0'2 cm. longus ; corolla infundibuliformis, 0'6-0'7 cm. longa, seg- 

 mentis oblongo-rotundatis, marginibus undulatis, 0'2-0 - 3 cm. longis; 

 stamina posteriora inclusa, staminodium paullo excedentia, anteriora 

 manifesta, antheris similibus ovalibus ; discus obscure crenulatus ; 

 stylus inclusus, apice minute bilobus, 02 cm. longus ; ovarium 

 ovatum ; capsula ignota. 



Busbmanland : Rocky places at foot of kopje near Groot Rozyn- 

 boscb, 3619. Great Namaqualand : Kopje about 25 km. South of 

 Warm bad, 4377. Between Dabaigabis and Griindoorn, 3149. 

 Great Karasberg : Narudas Slid, 8133. Krai Kluft Ravine, 8284. 



A rigid much-branched shrub, altogether glabrous, attaining 

 2 met. in height ; branches and branchlets divaricate or the younger 

 ascendmg, terete spinescent, marked with the remains of the fallen 

 leaf-tufts, up to 04 cm. in diam. ; leaves fasciculate, the fascicles 

 of 3-10 leaves, alternate, erect or erect-spreading, sessile or petio- 

 late on the youngest shoots, linear spathulate-linear. narrow-elliptic 

 or obovate, obtuse or more rarely acute, entire, 0"2-0 - 9 cm. long, 

 up to 0" cm. wide ; flowers in subsessile dense racemules, springing 

 from the fascicles, up to 2 "5 cm. long, ascending, finally spreading, 

 0'6-0'8 cm. long, the bracts linear, scarcely 0"2 cm. long ; pedicels 

 slender, 0-2-03 cm. long, bibracteolate, the bracteoles under O'l cm. 

 long ; calyx 5 partite, - 2 cm. long, the segments linear subacute ; 

 corolla infundibuliform, 0'6-0 - 7 cm. long, the segments oblong- 

 rotundate with undulate margins, 0'2-0'3 cm. long ; posterior 

 stamens included, a little longer than the staminode, the anterior 

 manifest, the anthers all alike oval ; disk obscurely crenulate ; style 

 included, minutely bilobed at the apex, - 2 cm. long ; ovary ovate ; 

 capsule unknown. 



A very distinct species, the whole plant being glabrous, the 

 branches spinescent, the leaves polymorphic and the numerous 

 dense racemules terminating the abbreviated leafy shoots. 



Plate VI., C, Fig. 1, sketch of a branch ; 2, leaf-tuft, enlarged ; 

 3, 4, 5, leaves, x 3 ; 6, flower, x 3 ; 7, corolla, laid open, x 4 ; 

 8, stamen ; 9, gynaeceum ; 10, transverse section of ovary — all 

 the latter variously enlarged. 



12. PHYLLOPODIUM. 

 1. P. capitatum, Benth., /. c, p. 373. 

 Cape : Along roadside from Warm Baths to Modderfontein, 



