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



and filaments about J lin. long. Style 1-lJ lin. long. Fruit globose- 

 ovoid, minutely pilose, orange-brown when young in dry state, Ij lin. 

 long, 1 lin. broad, ribs well marked, 12 or more owing to the reticulations 

 between the ribs being arranged vertically. 

 Kower Guinea. Angola, Oossiceiler, 4209b ! 



42. T. pilosum, ^. W. Hillin Kew Bulletin, 1910, 187. Perennial 

 dwarf subshrub ; rootstock woody ; stems erect, unbranched or branched 

 near the base, 3-4 in. long, densely pilose. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, hairy on the back and margins, about 2-2J lin. long, 

 slightly amplexicaul towards the base. Flowers nearly sessile or on 

 short peduncles in the axils of the bracts ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate^ 1 J lin. long, forming a small involucre. Perianth Ij lin. 

 long, hairy outside ; lobes |^ lin. long, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, hooded, 

 margins slightly inflexed and membranous, glabrous within. Filaments 

 J lin. long; anthers f lin. long. Style 1 lin. long. Fruit immature. 



£ower Guinea. Angola, Gossweiler, 4209c ! 



43. T. lycopodioides, Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samh. Exped. 229. 

 A low subshrub; branches about 1 ft. long, very much divaricately 

 branched, prostrate, very densely hispid-pilose. Leaves few on elongated 

 branches, very densely placed on short floriferous branches, very 

 narrowly imbricate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate and even 

 apiculate, about | lin. long, sessile, slightly decurrent, glabrous above, 

 rather densely hispid-pilose below especially near the base. Flowers 

 generally solitary at the apices of the branches, almost entirely covered 

 by numerous much imbricated leaves. Perianth white, about 1 lin. 

 long ; lobes J lin. long, lanceolate, acute or subacute, dorsally hispid- 

 pilose. Anthers sessile or subsessile, inserted at the base of the 

 perianth -lobes. Style filiform, | lin. long; stigma scarcely dilated. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : on stony ground at the edge of a wood between 

 Kulei and Kutsi, 4200 ft., Baum, 879 ! 



This species is very close to T. strigulosum, Welw., and the examination of a 

 fuller suite of specimens may show the two species to be identical. T. lycopodioides, 

 however, can be distinguished from T. strigulosum by the short densely lenfy branches 

 and by the shorter and less distant leaves on the main stems. Gossweiler's 1113 from 

 Kiamballa, placed under T. strigulosum, seems to be somewhat intermediate between 

 the two species, though it can be more clearly placed with VVelwitsch's specimen. 



44. T. unyikense, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. 306. Rootstock 

 small, thick, erect ; stems many, much-branched, longitudinally 

 grooved, 12 in. long; branches IJ to 2J in. long, ascending at an acute 

 angle, beariug 1-5 flowers, often irregularly cymose. Leaves 1-1 J lin. 

 long. Bracts smaller than leaves, triangular, acute, ciliolate. Perianth 

 white, IJ lin. long; lobes triangular-elongate, obtuse, f lin. long, 

 margins inflexed, membranous, glabrous. Anthers aboiit J lin. long. 

 Style about 1 lin. long. Fruit ovoid, l£ lin. long, IJ lin. broad, dis- 

 tinctly 10-nerved and with prominent reticulations between the nerves. 



