MR. P. MACOWAN ON NEW CAPE PLANTS. 387 
This seems a suitable opportunity to note that the Agathosma, 
distributed as “no. 560, Hb. MacOw.; 4. minuta, Schlecht., 
Bothasberg, prope Grahamstown,” was placed by Dr. Sonder, 
in 1874, as a variety of A. thymifolia, Schlecht. It will be found 
in almost all the sets distributed by me since 1865. 
ASPALATHUS ARGYRELLA, MacOwan, n. sp. ($ Sericex.)—Pro- 
cumbens, ramosa subsericea; folii sessilibus, exstipulatis, 3- 
foliatis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis, subobtusis, utrinque argenteo- 
sericeis; floribus capitatis violaceis; bracteis obovato-lanceolatis ; 
pedunculis folia seguantibus; calycibus dense villosis; carina 
villosa; vexillo rotundato dorso villosulo. 
Hab. Sandy, stony places on the mountains behind Nieu- 
wekloof (Tulbagh Road Station), Cape of Good Hope, alt. 
1500 feet, October 1835; Herb. MacOw. n. 2773; Herb. Norm. 
A - Afr. no 567. 
This is the plant collected by Wright on the “ Simonsbay 
Hills,” referred to 4. villosa, Thunb., by Harvey ; but it is per- 
fectly distinct from Drége’s Cederberg plant, which is marked by 
Harvey in the Kew Herbarium as being certainly the same as 
Thunberg’s plant, whilst Wright's specimens at Kew have a? 
placed after the name. It is a procumbent species with violet- 
purple flowers. Leaves 21-3 lines long, about 1 line broad; 
bracts consimilar but broader. Heads rather dense, from 6-8- 
flowered. In drying, the indument becomes slightly fulvous, 
but when fresh is quite silvery. 
HELICHRYSUM ARGYROLEPIS, MacOwan,n.sp. (S Xerochlena.) 
—Suffruticosum, ramis pluribus, virgatis, pubescentibus; foliis 
sessilibus, e basi latiore, linearibus, minute albido-tomentosis, 
margine subreflexis, nervo medio prominulo apice nigro-muero- 
nulato; capitulis ad apicem ramorum pedunculoideorum soli- 
tariis, turbinatis; squamis involueri imbrieatis, pluriseriatis, 
erectis, interioribus ovato-lanceolatis, albis, nitidis, exteris bre- 
vioribus, ovatis, plus minus fusco-sordidis. 
Hab. In corona summi montis Malowe, in ditione Griqualand 
East, alt. c. 6000 ped., Martio 1886, JW. Tyson, no. 2788 ; Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr. no. 834; Nelson, no. 549; J. M. Wood, 
no. 1914. 
Rami fertiles pedunculoidei, pedales, usque ad apicem eparsim 
foliati; alii breviores, foliis apicem versus confertis. Folia 
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