2 WELWITSCHIACEZ (Pearson). | Welwitsehia. 
cave on the top, more or less circular or elliptic in horizontal section, 
rising }~1 ft. above the ground, 1-3 ft. in diam. at the top ; epicotyl 
eee to 2 leaf-bearing grooves and floriferous cushions forming 
ised rim around the top of the hypocotyl isan at the 
fonder diameter, and a depressed and early arrested stem apex, 
at length buried beneath two coalescent corky expansions overlying 
a concave summit of the pe tyl et ate a from the buds 
ori imm 
ately beneath, each leaf; male spike bearing 40-70 axillary flowers 
in 4 rows; bracts connate, deca pair or 2 pairs barren; flowers 
concealed by the bracts until the exsertion of the anthers ; female 
spike bearing 40-60 flowers in 4 rows; lowest 6-10 pairs of bracts 
os in size from below upwards, barren, the lowest 2 or 
pairs connate. Except the cinonvas tube, the naked seed com- 
pletely ‘concealed by the bract at maturity. Marloth, Fl. S. Afr. i. 
O07, fig. 68 a and b. Tumboa Bainesii, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 
1861, oes . Nan in Rev. Hort. 1862, 186; Rendle in Cat 
Pl. Welw. ii. 257 (1899) ; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 3; 85 
(1 troilifera, We in Gard. Chron. 1862, 71 
a 
G. 
Linn. tt. 1-14 (1863), and in Bot. Mag. tt. 5368, 5369 
ite A MeNab i in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. t. 40 (1873) ; Monteiro, 
er. 2, 664 (1898); Warburg, Kimena-Sambesi Exped. 
women - 6 A pitieel Karsten & Schenck, Veg.-Bild. i. t. 25 (1903) ; 
PR Kew Bull. 907, 347, pl. 2, figs. 3-5; L. Schultze, 
Namaland & Kalahari, t. 3 a 907) ; M. G. Sykes in T . Linn. 
ser. ii. vii. 327, t. 34-5 ora Velenovsky, Vergl. 
ashes: PAL iii. os (i916): iv. Suppl. t. 1 (1913); Coulter & 
Chamberlain Morp h. Gymnosp. 365, 366 , 374, 399 (1910) ; Church 
in fos Trans. (B) cev. jeer 115, with figs. ; Pearson in Prain 
Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. ii. 333 (1917). 
Sourn-West Arrica: Namib region from north of Sandfisch Ba 
y (233° 8 
to the northern boun , and continued al the | 
orient apg ies Cia" Sy along the low coastal belt of Angola 
i ‘eo i dg of — Pen not be so rare as has generally been su 
an accoun e Diamond Fields Advertiser, Fambactes for 
April 1982, W bth Kakoa-vel 
Ni Wat Doe hie oceans pafone in great quantity in the veld in 
writer there states that he observed “an area 
