458 Annals of the South African Museum. 



5. C oligotricha (Schltr., in Eng. Jahrb., xxvii, 195). 



Plant 12-15 cm. high, simple or branched from the base, with a 

 somewhat thickened root. Stems glabrous. Leaves 1-25 cm. long, 

 •25-1*2 cm. broad, spathulate, more rarely elliptic or ovate, obtuse, 

 narrowed at the base, glabrous, usually entire, rarely with margins 

 remotely toothed. Inflorescence 3-11 cm. long, many-flowered. 

 Flowers solitary. Bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; bracteoles 

 close under the calyx, l - 5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute, glabrous. 

 Pedicel 3 mm. long, terete, pubescent. Calyx-tube 1*5 mm. long, 

 turbinate, scantily pubescent; lobes 2 - 5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, 

 acute. Corolla-segments 8 - 5 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened in 

 the uppermost f, shortly acuminate, obtuse, glabrous. Filaments 

 3 - 5 mm. long, expanded at the base, linear above, pilose ; anthers 2 mm. 

 long, oblong, minutely apiculate, ciliate on the back. Style 2*5 mm. 

 long, compressed, glabrous ; stigma subglobose. 



South-western Region. — Bredasdorp Division : Zout River, 450 

 ft., July, Schlechter, 8105 !. 



6. C. linarioides (Presl., in Eckl. and Zevh. Enum., 391). 



An erect plant 15-52 cm. high. Stem glabrous. Leaves 2-7 mm. 

 long (rarely 2 cm. long), linear, obtuse, mostly entire, sometimes 

 2-3-toothed, glabrous. Racemes 6-20 cm. long, 7-17-flowered. 

 Pedicels - 5-6 mm. long, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Bracts 

 1-2 mm. long, linear or subulate, subacute, glabrous, entire or 1-2- 

 toothed near the base. Calyx-tube 1 mm. long, campanulate, ribbed, 

 glabrous ; lobes 1-P25 mm. long, ovate, subacute, glabrous. Corolla 

 unequal at the base ; segments 8 - 5-9 mm. long, linear, and channelled 

 below, broadened above, obtuse, glabrous. Filaments 3 - 5-4 - 5 mm. 

 long, linear, pilose; anthers 1-5-2 mm. long, pilose. Style 2-4 mm. 

 long, semiterete, glabrous ; stigma capitate, pilose. 



Presl., in E. Mey, Comm. PL Brege, 294, ex parte; A.BC, in BC, 

 Prodr., VII, ii, 498 ; Sond., in Harv. and. Sond., Fl. Cap., Hi, 600 ; 

 C. carnj>estris, Presl., in EcJcl. and ZeyJi. Enum., 391 ; C. cinarioides, 

 Presl., in E. Mey, I. c, 293 {evidently <t misprint for linarioides) ; 

 C. tenuifolia, A.BC, in BC, Prodr., VII, ii, 495. 



South-western Region. — Tulbagh Division : Ceres Road Station, 

 500 ft,, September, Guthrie, 3391 !. Cape Division : Mountains round 

 Constantia, c. 500 ft., May, Schlechter, 762!. Caledon Division: 

 Zwartberg, EcJdon and Zeyher, 2438!. Bredasdorp Division: Elim, 

 April, Schlechter, 7690 !. Uitenhage Division : March, Schlechter, 

 2517 ! ; EcMon and Zetjher, 3088 !. Port Elizabeth Division : Red 



