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sessile, ascending, oblanceolate, f-1 in. long, obscnrely crenulate, 

 brown when dried, with the copious reticulated veinlets raised 

 on both surfaces. Heads very numerous, arranged in corymbose 

 terminal clusters, bracteated by reduced ovate coriaceous leaves. 

 Involucre nearly ^ in. long, the scariose bracts brownish and 

 woolly in the lower half, j)ure white and glabrous in the upper 

 half. Corolla ^ in. long. Achenemuch shorter than the corolla. 

 ■Baron 3488 ! 



StOEBE CRTPTOPHrLLA, U. sp. 



Fruticosa, ramosissima, ramulis confertis gracilibus erectis albo-tomen- 

 tosis^ foliis minutis lanceolatis rigidis ad ramum adpressis, capitulis 

 spicatis erecto-patentibus, involucro eylindrico multiseriaU bracteis exteri- 

 oribus oblongis rigidis interioribus lanceolatis corneis; pappo albido 

 plumoso flori a?quilongo. 



A much-branched erect heath-like shrub ; branchlets, including 

 the adpressed leaves, under a line in diameter. Leaves nearly 

 black, 1^ in. long, quite adpressed to the w^hite tomentose 

 branchlets. Spikes |-1 in. long. Involucre ^ in. long; outer 

 rows of bracts similar to the leaves in texture, but smaller; 

 inner horny, pale brown, glabrous. Flower solitary, as long as 

 the involucre. Corolla and pappus ^ in. long. — Baron 3349 ! 

 Adds this characteristically Cape genus to the Madagascar flora. 

 About 30 species are known at the Cape and 1 in Bourbon. 



SXOEBE BIOTOIDES, n. Sp. 



Fruticosa, ramosissima, ramulis confertis gracilibus erectis albo-tomen- 

 tosisj foliis minutis rigidulis lanceolatis dorso convexis ad ramum adpressis, 

 capitulis spicatis crccto-patentibus, involucro cyhndrico raultiseriah bracteis 

 exterioribusparvis oblongis rigidis iuterioribus corneis ovatis vel lanceolatis, 

 pappo albido plumoso flori aequilongo. 



An ericoid shrub, with woody main stems I in. in diam., and 

 very numerous crowded ascending branchlets a line in diamettr, 

 including the adpressed leaves. Leaves rigid, brown-black, yV ^^' 

 long. Spikes about | in. long. Involucre ^ in. long, with a 

 few outer bracts similar in texture to the leaves, the horny inner 

 ones much longer, drab-brown. Achene castaneous, glabrous, 

 ^ in. long. Pappus and corolla i in. lowj:.— Baron 3501 ! 



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EpALLAGE niSSITIFOLIA, n. 



E, ramulis dense breviter pubescentibus, foliis paucis remotis petiolatis 

 ovatis serratis, capitulis paucis longe pedunculatis, involucro late cam- 

 panulato bracteis herbaceis oblongis acutis adpressis pubescentibus, liguhs 



