TaBuLA 3049. 
THESIUM AGGREGATUM, 4A. W. Hill. 
SANTALACEAE. Tribus THESIEAE. 
T. aggregatum, 4. W. Hill in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 22; species 
T. diversifolio, Sond., et T. spicato, L., affinis, ab ila bracteis margine 
fimbriatis, ab ris foliis superioribus paucis subulatis ascendentibus 
praecipue differ 
Caules et rami adscendentes, sete glabri. sh jibe or 
ad caulem adpressa, lanceolata ineari-lanceolata, 
longa, rigida, sicco nigrescentia, Nom Flores in naipi¥illes sariciiiees 
subcapitatos vel in spicas oblongo-lineares conferti. Bracteae ovatae, 
acute acuminatae, costa lati: carnosa, marginibus subtranslucentibus 
he lacerato-denticulatis, glabrae ; ; bracteolae floribus aequa 
sed multo ee sree’ eis similes. Perianthium 3-4 mm 
babar, intra faucem pubescens; segmenta circiter 3 mm, longa, 
linearia, subacuta, abies rigide Bee Fe -barbata. Antherae e peri- 
anthii tubo exsertae, 0-5 mm. longae. Stigma sessile. Fructus ellips- 
oideus, 6 mm. longus, prominenter 10-costatus, inter costas subtiliter 
reticulatus. 
_ Sourn Arrica: Cape Colony; Vanrhynsdorp Division, Windhoek, 
805 m., August, Schlechter, 8348 ; Clanwilliam Division, Lammskraal, 
375 m., September, Diels, 7 19; Malmesbury hess near Hopefield, 
September, Bachmann, 1 1649, 1695 ; Darling, ale October, Schlechter, 
5337 ; Cape Division, near Capetow n, 30 m., June, , Bolus, 1 1360 ; Wyn- 
berg, October, Bolus, 29 31; 25 m. , February, Schlechter, 7545 ; Muizen- 
berg, 300 m., January, Bolus, 2933 ‘partly ; ; Kenilworth, 30 m. , January, 
Bolus, 7049 ; Hertzog House Retreat, December, Wolley Dod, 2364 ; 
near Vygers kr aal, December, Wolley Dod, 2371 ; without prec locality, 
Wallich ; Osbeck in Herb. ‘Stookholas Zeyher, ‘4879 
This species is taken as a type of the section Annulata in which there 
is a ring of short downwardly directed golden hairs inserted in the 
perianth-tube at the level of the attachment of the anther-filaments. 
The perianth-segments are provided with a beard of rigid hairs but 
there are no perianth-hairs behind the anthers. The specimen figured 
is Bolus, 7049.—A. W. Hit. 
