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obtusely incised margins, glabrous, 1*5-5*5 cm. long, 0*5-2-5 cm. 

 broad; petiole slender, 0*75-2 cm. long. Baceme spicoid, up to 

 25 cm. long (in fruit). Bracts linear, acute, with membranous 

 margins, beset with minute stalked capitate glands, 4-5 mm. long ; 

 bracteoles reduced to bristles, glabrous, 1 mm. long. Pedicels of 

 the flowers 1-2 mm. long. Calyx-tube straight, ridged, beset with 

 minute glands, otherwise glabrous, 8-10 mm. long; teeth small. 

 Corolla-tube curved, glabrous on the outside, hispid-villous within 

 especially in the throat, 2 cm. long. Fruit black when ripe, of 

 2 cohering cocci, broader at the base than above, curved on the 

 posterior face, with a broad anterior areole, 2-3 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad at the base. 



B. g land ulif era, is closely related to B. garepensis, from which, 

 however, it appears to be sufficiently distinct in its lobed leaves and 

 gland-beset bracts and calyces. 



BOUCHEA C^ESPITOSA, Sp. 11. 



Planta parva, lignosa, csespitosa, pubescentia hispidulosa densa 

 reflexa vestita. Radix lignosa, recta, altissima. Folia opposita, 

 conferta, petiolata, triangulari-ovata, obtuse 7-9-serrata -pinna- 

 tifidave, basim attenuata, apice obtusa, subcoriacea, nervis 

 lateralibus principiis obscuris 6-8 utrinque, dense hispidula. 

 Spica terminalis, conferta, pauciflora. Bractece lineares, obtusae 

 hispidulse ; bracteolse setulosse, hispidulse. Flores sessiles. Calycis 

 tubus (in fructu) gibbosus, minute subaequaliterque 5-dentatus, extus 

 hispidulus, intus glaber. Fructus ex coccis cohserentibus 2 constatus, 

 oblongus, posteriore paullo arcuatus, anteriore areola excavata 

 instructus. 



Western Kegion : Lesser Namaqualand ; I'us, 2,800 ft. 

 Schlechter 11425, in Herb. Bolus. 



A small deeply rooted tufted perennial about 4 cm. high, 

 hispidulous with reflexed hairs. Leaves opposite, crowded, 

 triangular-ovate, 7-9-serrate or -pinnatifid, with obtuse lobes and 

 apex, densely hispidulous, 2*5-3 cm. long, about 1*5 cm. broad; 

 petiole -75-1*25 cm. long. Spike terminal, crowded, few-flowered, 

 1 cm. long. Bracts 3-4 mm. long ; bracteoles 2 mm. long. Floivers 

 sessile. Calyx-tube gibbous in fruit, minutely 5-toothed, hispidulous 

 without, glabrous within, 7-9 mm. long. Corolla not seen. Fruit 

 of 2 cohering cocci, oblong, somewhat curved on the posterior face, 

 with an anterior areole, 4-5 mm. long. 



