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Santalaceae. In Harvey and Sender's '' Flora Capeiisis'' it was 

 included under HamamcHdaceae, but it lias been redescribed for 

 the fortlicoming volume of tlie Flora Capensis under Santalaceae. 

 De Candolle placed the genus in a separate natural order, 

 Grubhiaceae, which immediately precedes the Santalaceae in the 

 Prodromus, while Bentham and Hooker place it in their fourth 

 tribe, Grubbieae, at the end of Santalaceae, and consider the genus 

 to be an anomalous one in the order. 



Three species were described by De Candolle and four by 

 Sonder.* Material of the types of the four si>eeies has been 

 examined and it is clear that they should all stand. 



G, strictay with its many-flowered axillary strobili, is very 

 distinct from the three other species, where the flowers are 

 arranged in three-flo'wered f u&ed cymules, and it was even described 



as a species of Taurus by Bergius. 



folia^ G. pinifolia and G. Jiirsifta form a very 



natural group nf closely allied species. 



G, pinifoUa is distinguished from the common form, G. 



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the base but are almost decurrent into the definite petioles. The 

 stems and petioles are also minutely downy. Through the kind- 

 ness of Dr. Lindman a piece of the type specimeu of G. pivi folia 

 (Stellenbosch, Echlon and Zeyher) preserved at Stockholm has 

 been examined and has been found to agree exactly with the 

 specimen collected by MacOwan (Xo. 918) on Table Mountnin. 



G. hirsvfa may be recognised hy its very villous covering, by 

 the undivided small bracts and also by the fruits, which are evenly 

 covered hj very short thick hairs. 



TlIESIUil. 



Tlie syuouviu FrUca, Spacli, reduced in tlie Index Keweusis to 

 Thesiuin, is the result of a misprint made by Endlic-lier and per- 

 petuated by Spacli. R. Blown (Prod. Fl. Nov. HoIL p. 353) had 

 previously written T. frisca when quoting the Linnean species 



T. Frisea. 



The specitic name Fii.sea was given by Linnaeus to a South 

 African species of Thesium collected by Koeuig, It was pub- 

 lished with a capital initial letter and it is clear therefore that it 

 was bein<r treated as a o-eueric name though no such genus had 



been publ 

 is ' 



and it seems probable that Linnaeus in determining the plant as 

 a Thesivm adopted Koenig's unpublished name. 



^... ... „... ..ame 



The error in 

 spelHng' Frica Tor'JrZca has also led to a further curious 

 mistake. The following is a quotation from ^^ ittstein s 

 Etymologisch-botnniscbes Handworterbuch, an exceedingly 



useful work of its kind : — ■, • i n • 



" Frisea 11. (Santalaceae). Nach Th. Frisca, der s.ch am f ap im 

 hotanischen Interesse aufhielt." The " K " here signifies 

 lleichenbach, but this botanist wrote (Cons p. Reg. ^ cj;. p. W), not 



* Sondor in ILn-vey nnd Soiuler. PL Cap. ii. pp. 325-^27. 



