938 cxiv. SANTALACE^. [Thesium 



5 approximated ciliolate leaves at the base ; free portion of the 

 perianth -j^ to ^^ in. long, shortly cylindrical or wider upwards, 

 persistent, divided nearly to the base; segments 5, lanceolate, 

 obtuse, with an incurved apiculus at the tip, fleshy, concave with 

 narrowly incurved thinner papillose sides except the base, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; anthers lanceolate, short, included in the perianth, 

 glabrous ; filaments rather short, glabrous ; ovules 3 ; style thick, 

 exceeding the stamens, rather shorter than the perianth, glabrous ; 

 lower part of the fruit subglobose, glabrous, crustaceous, nearly 

 ^ in. in diameter, longitudinally ribbed, the ribs joined with 

 oblique or sinuous thickly marked veinlets ; endocarp lined 

 inside with spongy scales ; seed solitary. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures near LopoUo among low bushes and plants of 

 Euphorbiaceae (of. Clutki henguelensis Muell. arg. ; Welw. herb. no. 

 338), Gnidia (of. G. Rendlei ; Welw. herb. no. 6478), and Ascoleph ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 6437. 



6. T. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A nearly glabrous undershrub, about 1 ft. high, perennial ; 

 rhizome creeping horizontally, throwing up numerous crowded 

 erect or suberect virgate wiry stems ; stems simple at the base or 

 nearly so, much branched towards the apex ; branches angular, 

 marked with the lines of the decurrent leaves ; leaves mostly 

 alternate, narrowly linear, acute, sessile, decurrent, J to § in. 

 long ; flowers about -|- in. long, bracteolate at the base, on short 

 pedicels, arranged in terminal somewhat compound racemes ; 

 pedicels bracteate at the base, approximated at the apex of the 

 inflorescence ; bracts ^ to i in. long ; bracteoles shorter than the 

 flowers ; free portion of the perianth about yV in. long, urceolate 

 or campanulate-hemispherical, 5-cleft, persistent ; the lobes bearded 

 inside, ovate-deltoid, subobtuse ; filaments inserted near the bases 

 of the perianth-lobes, short ; anthers subquadrate ; style included, 

 not exceeding the anthers ; fruit including the marcescent perianth 

 i in. long, ovoid-conical, i in. in transverse diameter, ribbed and 

 obliquely cross- veined. 



HuiLLA. — In sandy wooded thickets, in the Humpata country, 

 between Mumpulla and Nene, very rare elsewhere ; fl. and few fr. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 6435. 



Habit somewhat of T. pycnanthum Schlechter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xxvii. p. 120 (7 April 1899), but the flowers are not capitate to the 

 same extent. As to companionship, see Thunhergia aiigoloish S. Moore, 

 a7ite, p. 804, Welw. herb. no. 5037. 



2. OSYRIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f.^Gen. PI. iii. p. 227. 



1. 0. abyssinica Hochst. in PL Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 281 (U. i., 

 1840); Flora 1841, Intellig. i. p. 22 (name only); A. Eich. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. p. 236 (1851). 



Fusanus alternifolia, Br. in Salt, Abyss., A pp. p. Ixiii. (1814), 

 nomen. 



HuiLLA. — A much-branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; branchlets 

 green, angular ; leaves elliptic-ovate, glaucous, somewhat fleshy ; flowers 



