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TropicaL AFRICA. German South West Africa: Hereroland ; 
Waterbergplat, Dinter, 585; Otavi, Dinter, 726; Grootfontein, 
Dinter, 912. 
1177. Thesium xerophyticum, 4. /V. Hill, [Santalaceae] ; species 
inter eas bibracteolatas foliis reductis, caulibus foliis et floribus pilosis 
distincta. : 
Suffruter perennis; caules lignosi, plus minusve erecti, 30 cm, 
vel plures longi, sulcati, minute pilosi, multiramosi : rami divaricati, 
2-5 em. longi, suleati, minute pilosi, Folia numerosa, squamiformes, 
subulata vel late ovata, acuta, 1-2 mm. longa, apicibus fuscis. 
Flores sessiles in axillis bractearum dispositi; bracteae triangulari- 
ovatae, acutae, 1°5 mm. longae, minute pilosae, bracteolae 2, con- 
cayae, ut bracteae apicibus fuscis, Perianthium 1 mm. longum, 
segmentis 0°5 mm. longis ovatis cucullatis extra hirsutis marginibus 
sinuoso-undulatis inflexis apicibus fuscis. Filamenta O0°4 mm. 
onga; antherae 0°5 mm. longae. tylus minutus. /S/ructus 
ovoideus, circiter 2°5 um. longus, 2 mm. latus, minute pilosus, costis 
10 conspicuis. 
TropicaL AFRIOA. German South West Africa: Hereroland ; 
Windhoek, Dinter, 270 ; Farm Hoffnung, 1900 m., Dinter, 964. 
affinis ab illa foliis minoribus ab hac capsulis haud verrucosis 
petiolisque haud hispidis differt. 
Frutex vel interdum arbor 12 m. alta, ramulis minute pubescentibus 
vel puberulis. Folia breve petiolata, oblonga vel oblanceolato- 
oblonga, acuta, margine integra vel crenata, versus basin anguste 
truncatum vel cuneatum gradatim angustata, 10-15 cm. longa, 
p- 336, et in DC. P 
Welw., pars iv., p. 976. 
TropicaL Arrica, Nile Land: Juru, Schweinfurth, 3275. 
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beneath and on the, petioles. 
