TABULA 3048. 
THESIUM PENICILLATUM, 4A. W. Hill. 
SANTALACEAE. Tribus THESIEAE. 
T. penicillatum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 37; species a 
speciebus alteris pilorum discretorum penicillo pone antheras sito et 
ab eis distincto distinguenda. 
Caules erecti, longitudinaliter sulcati, robusti, lignosi, glabri, superne 
ramosi; rami erecti, subcorymbosi. Folia linearia, acute mucronata, 
lucentibus ; bracteolae bracteis paullo breviores. Perianthium 2-25 mm. 
ongum; segmenta lineari-lanceolata, subacuta, circiter 2°25 m 
longa, plana, cucullata, apice et marginibus pilis longis rroteabta: 
m. lon i 
ellipsoideus, 6 mm. longus, subprominenter 5-costatus, nervis inter- 
mediis inconspicuis, inter nervos transverse reticulatus. 
Sours Arrica : Cape Colony ; George Division, Cradock Berg, 760 m., 
Galpin, 4546; Humansdorp Division, Storms river, 80 m., Schlechter, 
5986. 
This species is the sole representative so far observed of the newly 
constituted section Penicillata. The hairs behind the anthers are 
quite free, forming a loose pencil, and are not attached to the re 
in any wey The specimen figured is Galpin, 4546. —A. W. Hin 
Fia, eee detached from a corymb sho nue the sos ages and 
developing lateral flowers with bract ha bracteo: 2, a flow ected 
the Bees beard of habe nd the pencil of re hairs behind sui anther ; 
3, apes ret a perianth-segment showing hairs of the beard and those on the margin. 
All enlarged. 
