TABULA 3065. 
THESIDIUM FRUTICULOSUM, A. W. Hill. 
SANTALACEAE. 
T, fruticulosum, A. W. Hill in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 99, et in Dyer, 
Fl. Cap. vol. v. sect. 2, p. 205 ; species suffruticosa, robusta, ramulorum 
costis et bracteis verruculosis vel subscabridulis bracteis floribus paullo 
longioribus, floribus binis in bractearum cornearum axillis in plantis 
feminis distincta. 
Suffrute circiter 30 cm. altus; caules erecti vel patuli, in plantis 
masculis valde ramosi, robusti, lignosi, acute costati vel subangulati, 
costis -verruculosis vel subscabridulis. Plantae masculae: rami 
numerosi, recti, patuli, costis prominenter verruculosis vel subscabridis, 
omnino et plus minusve dense floriferi ; bracteae foliosae, lanceolatae, 
acutae, circiter 3 mm. longae, acute carinatae, supra planae, verrucu- 
axillares subsessiles; perianthium 1:25 mm. longum; segmenta 
triangulari-ovata, 0-75 mm. longa ; antherae circiter 0-15 mm. longae. 
segmenta erecta, 0-5 mm. longa; stylus robustus, 0-25 mm. longus. 
Fructus subsessilis, globosus, 1-5 mm. diametro, conspicue reticulatus. 
Sourn Arrica: Cape Colony ; Cape Division, Table Mountain, on 
Groene Kloof, Galpin, 4556; Slang Kop, 220 m., Wolley Dod, 3187 ; 
slopes near Buffels Bay, Wolley Dod, 2869; Durban Hills, Guthrie, 
2407 ; Caledon Division, near Vogelgat, 320 m., Schlechter, 10,414 (?) ; 
without definite locality, Harvey, 709 3 and 9 
This Thesidium belongs to the group of species in which the male 
and female plants are very dissimilar. In the female plant the branches 
are stout, and the verruculose and horny ribs and angles are very con- 
spicuous. The flowers are arranged in small cymes.—A. W. Hitt 
culose 
7 . . . ts 
margins and cyme of flowers ; 5, a female flower with spreading perianth segmen 
and stout ae ies 6, a female flower after fertilization ; 7, a fruit with its ribs and 
reticulations. All enlarged. 
