Thamnea] an enumeration of the bruniace^ 19 



Schlechter, 1662 ! Coast Central Eegion. — Tulbagh Div. : Stony 

 slopes of the Mostert's Berg, Mitchell's Pass near Ceres, MacOioaii, 

 3088 ! Central Eegion.— Ceres Div. : Cold Bokkeveld, 4500 ft., 

 Schlechter, 10,700 ! eastern slopes of the Skurfdeberg Eange, near 

 Gydouw, 4500 ft., Bokis, 7479 ! 



Without Locality. — Masson, Herb. Brit. Mus. ! 



7. T. Massoniana Diimmer, sp. nov., afifinis T. diosmoidi 

 Oliv., sed habitu robustiore dense ramoso foliosoque, foliis oblongis 

 superne incurvatis truncatis ustulato-apiculatis carnosulis dorso 

 late costatis scabriusculis, floribus majoribus, ovariis pubescenti- 

 bus differt. 



A densely-branched ericoid subshrub, about ^ metre high 

 (according to Masson). Leaves sessile, crowded, imbricate, 

 ascending, incm^ved above, oblong, truncate, often surmounted by 

 a blunt or acute blackish apiculus, 2-4 mm. long, subfleshy, 

 broadly unicostate dorsally, flattened on the inner face, distinctly 

 scaberulous, margin translucent. Flowers similar to S. diosmoides 

 Oliv., but slightly larger in all their parts; ovary subglobose, 

 pubescent. 



Coast Eegion. — Stellenbosch Div. : Stellenbosch, Masson, 

 Herb. Mies. Brit. ! 



VI. MNIOTHAMNEA 



Niedenzu in Engler u. Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien, iii. 2 a. 136 

 (1891). Berzelia {Mniothamnea) OHygt in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 333 (1867). 



M. callunoides Niedenzu, I. c. Berzelia callunoides Oliver, 

 I. c, and in Hook. Icon. t. 1014 (1867). 



Coast Eegion. — Swellendam Div. : On a mountain peak near 

 Swellendam, Burchell, 7382 ! 7348 ! Eiversdale Div. : On 

 Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7097 ; summit of the Kampsche Berg, 

 Burchell, 7116 ! 



N.B. — All the specimens cited are in the Kew Herbarium. 



VII. EASPALIA 



Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. viii. 377 (1826) ; Hooker, op. cit. 

 672 ; Niedenzu, Ojj. cit. 135. Raspailia Walpers, Eep. i. (1842), 

 544 (not J. & C. Presl). Baspallia Arnott in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. (1841), 259. Berardia Brongn. op. cit. 380 (in part) ; 

 Bonder, op. cit. 318 (in part). 



Key to Species, f 

 * Leaves convex dorsally. 



Leaves glabrescent ventrally. 



Leafy twigs 5 mm. thick ; flower-head dingy grey, 

 woolly, 7-10 mm. in diameter ; bracts 

 equalling the flowers (0) squalida. 



t The status of R. affinis Nied. and II. asjwra E. May. being doubtful, tbeir 

 omission from the hey is entertained here. 



