424 cxx. sANTALACEiE (baker AND hill). [Thesium. 



29. T. scabridulum, A. W. Hill. Subshrub about 6 in. high; 

 lower branches straggling and spreading, upper ascending, grooved, 

 scabrous. Leaves on the older branches distant, 4J-7 lin. long, on the 

 younger branches numerous, 3^5 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 keeled, scabrous. Inflorescence racemose ; flowers solitary in the axils 

 of the bracts ; bracts leafy, partly adnate to the pedicels, about 3J lin. 

 long ; bracteoles 2, equal in length to oi- slightly longer than the flowers. 

 Perianth yellowish {Svrynnerton), 1 J lin. long, smooth ; lobes | lin. long, 

 narrowly ovate-lanceolate, slightly hooded, margins undulate, inflexed. 

 Anthers and filaments of equal length, J lin. long. Style | lin. long, 

 exceeding the anthers. Fruit immature, ovoid, with inconspicuous 

 reticulations. 



BXozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: Melsetter, 6000 ft., Swynnerton, 2124! 

 "A large straggling herb with small yellowish flowers" {Sivynnerton). 



30. T. kilipiandschariciiiny Engl, in Ahhandl. Preiiss. Akad. 

 Wiss. ii. (1891), 200. Herb or subshrub, perennial (?) with tap root; 

 stems numerous, decumbent or more or less erect, 4-10 in. long, forming 

 a densely branched undershrub ; branches densely leafy. Leaves 2J- 

 3J lin. long, linear, cartilaginous, axiute, concave, more or less curved. 

 Flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate, borne on compressed 3-flowered 

 cymes on short leafy branches in the axils of leafy bracts ; bracteoles 

 rather longer than the flower. Perianth white or yellowish, about J lin. 

 long, divided nearly to the base into lobes scarcely \ lin. long, ovate, 

 obtuse, glabrous. Anthers and filaments about y^^ lin. long, filaments 

 inserted at the base of the perianth. Style \ lin. long. Fruit orange 

 when dry, shortly ovoid, 1 lin. long, J lin. broad, ribs and veins only 

 slightly marked. — 2\ rungioense, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 307. T. 

 kilimandschaoncum, var. erectum^ Engl, in Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 ii. (1891), 200. 



nSozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 9000-15000 ft., various 

 localities, Johnston, 27 ! 50! Meyer, 248! Uhlig, 195 ! Volkens, 952 ! 1821 ! 1871 ! 

 German Nyassaland ; Rungwe Mountain, 9500 ft., Goetze, 1156 ! 



31. T. nigricans) Rendle m Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. iv. 41. 

 Low shrub, much-branched ; branches slender, spreading. Leaves 

 linear, plano-convex, mucronate, smooth, J-J in. long, margins sub- 

 scabrous. Flowers 4-5 in the axils of bracts or at ends of small leafy 

 axillary branches, shortly pedicellate ; axillary bract and two bracteoles 

 similar to leaves ; bracteoles about equal in length to the flowers or 

 longer. Perianth campanulate, | lin. long; lobes 4-5, J-| lin. long, 

 slightly spreading, elliptic, ovate, subacute, glabrous, apex inflexed. 

 Anthers J lin. long ; filaments slightly longer. Style | lin. long ; stigma 

 capitate. Fruit ovoid, 1 lin. long, f lin. broad, with 8-10 ribs and a few 

 oblique reticulations. 



Mozamb. Bistr. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Milanji, 6000- 

 9000 ft., Whyte, 42 ! McClounie, 39 I Adamson, 335 ! 337 ! Zomba, Whyte. 



Turns black on drying. 



