426 cxx. SANTALACEiE (baker AND hill). [Thesium. 



corymbose plant, 4-angled, strongly ribbed. Leaves at the base reduced 

 to scales, above narrowly-elliptic, acute, with a prominent midrib, 2 J-3 

 lin. long. Flowers either single or in 8-flowered cymes in the axils of 

 leafy bracts forming short simple or compound inflorescences at the ends 

 of branches ; bracts partly adnate to the pedicels, Ij lin. long ; bracteoles 

 2, IJ lin. long, shorter than the flowers. Perianth Ij-lj lin. long; 

 lobes IJ lin. long, ovate-deltoid, hooded, glabrous or minutely ciliolate 

 on margins. Filaments and anthers about f lin. long. Style |--| lin. 

 long. Fruit ovoid, about Ij lin. long, with 5 definite ribs and con- 

 spicuous reticulations. 



XKozamb. Blstr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near the foot of 

 Tshiradzura (Chiradzulu) Mountain, Kirk! top of Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 122 

 Chikala, 2000 it., Furves, 25 ! 



36. T. cinereum, A. W. Hill hi Kew Bulletin, 1910, 182. Perennial 

 herb, densely covered with hairs and ashen-grey in colour ; rootsDock 

 much branched ; stems procumbent, rounded, grooved, 6 in. to 1 ft. long, 

 crowded with filiform axillary branches or peduncles ; branches leafless, 

 terminated by a flower and often bearing leafy branches from the axils 

 of bracteoles, secondary leafy branches in the bract-axils also occur. 

 Leaves subulate, acute, 1-2^ lin. long, hairy on the back. Cymes 1-3- 

 flowered, axillary ; peduncles naked, 1-4 lin. long ; flowers with an 

 involucre of linear-subulate bracteoles. Perianth green outside and 

 densely hairy, white inside, 1 lin. long ; lobes J-| lin. long, margins 

 membranous and with hairs near the base, margins and apex inflexed. 

 Anthers about J lin. long. Style -^^ lin. long. Fruits globose-ovoid, 

 about 1 lin. in diam., densely hairy, with well-marked vertical and 

 transverse reticulations. 



lower Guinea. Angola: Malange District, near Saba Onatunga, in company 

 of perennial Leguminosae, Oossweiler, 1115 ! 



37. T. viride, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 238. Perennial ; 

 rootstock woody; stems erect, branched or unbranched, 10-14 in. high, 

 ciliate or glabrous below, glabrous or subglabrous above, grooved ; 

 branches long vegetative or short flowering. Leaves subulate, acute, 

 about 1 lin. long, adpressed, ciliate or subglabrous on the back. Inflor- 

 escences irregular branched axillary cymes, usually borne on a long 

 peduncle ; bracts and bracteoles forming an involucre, ovate or subulate, 

 apiculate or acuminate, J-f lin. long. Perianth 1-1 J lin. long, brownish- 

 white {Ledermann) ; lobes | lin. long, narrowly ovate, hooded, slightly- 

 hairy at the margins, margins more or less fused together above. Anthers 

 and filaments \ lin. long. Style about | lin. long. Fruit globose-ovoid, 

 about 1 lin. long, with 10 ribs of equal size and transverse reticulations. 



TTpper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Katagnm District ; in dry bush, Dalziel, 

 416! Cameroons : Sagdsche, iec?erma«», 3742 ! 



38. T. fulvum, A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 185. A sub- 

 shrub, perennial (?), whole plant fuscous, covered with short hairs; 

 stems erect, grooved, 10-15 in. high, with numerous lateral branches 



