TABULA 3064. 
THESIDIUM EXOCARPAEOIDES, Sond. 
SANTALACEAE. 
T, exocarpaeoides, Sond. in Flora, 1857, p. 365; A. W. Hill in 
Dyer, Fl. Cap. vol. v. sect. 2, p. 202; species T. Thunbergu, Sond., 
ffinis, ramis tenuissimis bracteis minutis fructibus subsessilibus 
a 
praecipue differt. 
. . . 
alti, ramis et ramulis elongatis tenuibus flexuosis imprimis in plantis 
longis; antherae exsertae. Floris foeminei perianthium 0-75 mm. 
longum, segmentis lanceolatis subacutis marginibus inflexis sub- 
repandis; stylus 0:35 mm. longus. Fructus subsessilis, globosus, 
—T. micro- 
carpum, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 674. Thesiwm microcarpum, 
A. DC. Esp. Nouv. Thes. p. 5; Sond. in Flora, 1857, p. 405. 
Sout Arrica: Cape Colony; Swellendam Division, Hessaquas 
Kloof, Zeyher, 3814; Riversdale Division, hills near the Gouritz river, 
60 m., Schlechter, 5717; Albany Division, Bothas Berg, near Grahams- 
town, 670 m., MacOwan, 1188. 
The genus Thesidium, containing seven species from South Africa 
only, can be divided into two groups. In one of these the male and 
and female plants are alike. It was formerly placed in Thesium by 
De Candolle—A. W. Hit. 
Fr 
2, a male flower showing the four spreading perianth segments and the anthers ; 
, @ male flower dissected; 4, a perianth segment showing the anther and its 
attachment-hairs ; 5, a porti : 
ower expanded to show the style; 7, a female flower dissected, the ovary some- 
what swollen; 8, a fruit showing ribs and reticulations and persistent perianth 
segments. All enlarged. 
