Thesiiim.] cxx. SANTALACE.E (baker and hill). 419 



obtuse, apex densely bearded. Filaments J lin. long; anthers \~l lin. 

 long. Style slender, exceeding the anthers in length, j lin. long. 

 Fruit globose, longitudinal ribs prominent with reticulate cross veins. 

 jMOxrer Guinea. Angola : Gambos, Newton, 165 ! 



14. T. multiramulosum, Pilger in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 57. Stems 

 numerous, 15-20 in. high, erect, with primary and secondary branchlets ; 

 branches and branchlets erect-spreading, distant. Leaves distant, 

 basal small, lanceolate-linear, scale-like, upper leaves larger, elongate- 

 subulate, 5-7 lin. long. Oymes few-flowered distant, collected into 

 narrow elongate panicles ; bracts subulate, 1-1 J lin. long, partly ad- 

 nate to the peduncles ; bracteoles shorter than the flowers. Perianth 

 cyathiform; lobes rectangular-oblong, obtuse, about | lin. long, slightly 

 hooded, hairy at the apex and margins. Filaments filiform, J-J lin. 

 long ; anthers ellipsoid, J-J lin. long. Style reaching to the base of the 

 perianth-lobes, | lin. long. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: Tree-steppe, near Umtali, 3900 ft., Engler, 

 3138! 3146! Nyasaland : Shire Higlilands, Buchanan, 47! Mandala, Scott- 

 Elliot, 8446 1 MuDgHzi, Kirk ! between Blantyre and Matope, 2500 ft., Scott! 



15. T. gracile, A. W, Hillin Kew Bulletin, 1910, 185. Subshrub 

 with several erect stems much branched above to form slender bushes 

 5 in.-l ft. high; stems and branches angled and deeply grooved. 

 Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, with colourless acute tip, keeled, 

 J-J in. long, spreading. Inflorescences paniculate, compact, terminal ; 

 flowers white, shortly stalked, arranged in axillary 3- or more-flowered 

 cymes ; bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, concave, keeled, adnate about 

 1 lin., 4-5 lin. long; bracteoles 2, rather fleshy, 1 lin. long. Perianth 

 yellow, |-| lin. long, globose, with erect lobes ; lobes J lin. long, ovate- 

 deltoid, hooded with a beard of few stout hairs. Filaments and anthers 

 scarcely \ lin. long. Style \~\ lin. long. Fruit globose, 1 lin. in diam., 

 ribs and reticulations well shown. 



Moxaxnb. Blstr. Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland ; Uins\\ irizwi flats, 

 1100 ft., Stvynnerton, 310! Mozambique: Zonoe Manica, 2500 ft.. Johnson, 

 255 ! British Central Africa: Rhodesia j Sebakwe, 4000 ft., Eyles, 85! 



16. T. resedoides, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 187. Herb 

 or subshrub, perennial, forming low bushes ; rootstock woody ; stems 

 erect, 6-8 in, high, bearing spreading branches 2-4 in. long, angled and 

 grooved. Leaves distant, spreading, 3-4 lin. long, subulate, acute, 

 with colourless tips. Inflorescences in simple or compound spikes or 

 racemes ; flowers either single and sessile in the axils of bracts or borne 

 in short 3-flowered axillary cymes ; bracts lanceolate, acute, equal in 

 length or ^ as long again as flower, sessile on axis or adnate to the 

 peduncle ; bracteoles springing from the bract- axil, shorter than the 

 flower. Perianth white, about IJ lin. long; lobes elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 

 I lin. long, apex hooded and with upper part of margin densely bearded. 

 Filaments \ lin. long; anthers about J lin. long. Style | lin. long. 

 Fruit ovoid, 1 J lin. long, 1 lin. broad, immature, ribs obscure. — Thesium 



