GRUBBIA rosmarinifoliaBerg. [family GRUBBIACEAE], ! pl. Cap. p. 90, s. 2),—Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 373.
Ophira strictaL. [family ], mant. sec. p. 229.
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branches tomentose or hirsute; leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins, hairy and scabrous above, tomentose beneath; bracts hemispherical, smooth, bifid, compressed below the fissure; nuts equalling the bracts, smooth but hairy on the superior margins. Shrub 1–3 feet high with virgate branches. Branchlets terete or somewhat angled, hirsute or glabrescent. Leaves opposite or by abortion of branchlets verticillate, 4–5 lines long, 1/2–1 line wide; in other specimens 6 lines long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, sub-cordate or subauriculate at base, valvate above; petiole not conspicuous, or at most 1/3 line long. Flowers sessile, 1 line long. Bracts chestnut-coloured, rather shorter than the flowers. Fruit 1 line long and thick, about 1 1/2 line wide, enclosed by the bracts, brownish; disk as well as the margins of the perianth hispid. It varies with hairy and subglabrous branches, hirsute or subglabrous, but always scabrous leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mountains near Cape Town, Hottentottsholland, in the districts of Stellenbosch, Caledon and George, etc. Zeyh. 2654. Drege! 161. Oct.-Jan. (Herb. Holm. D. Sond.)
