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culis ceterum cylindricis 10-costatis glabris, pappi setis scabrius- 
culis albis. 
Jab. Steijns Farm, Johannesburg ; H. T. Ommanney, 111. 
Planta summum 4-metralis ex scheda cl. detectoris. Caulis 
deorsum 0°5-0°6 em. diam. Folia inferiora (petiolo incluso) 
30*0-45'0 em. long., 4°0-fere 6'0 cm. lat.; horum petiolus 6:0- 
20'0 em. long., sc. foll. super. magnopere abbreviatus; folia 
superiora 14:0-20*0 em. x 0'8-2:0 cm., accedunt perpauca summa 
in bracteas transeuntes 3:0—4-0 x 0:2-0:3 em. Corymbus 1470 em. 
long., circa 9:0 diam. ; ejus bractez 0:25-1:5 em. long. Pedunculi 
proprii modice 2:0-3:0 em. long. Capitula 08x04 em. Caly- 
culi phylla perpauca, 0:2 em. long. Involucri phylla 0'5 em. 
long. Ligule (lamina) 0*6 em. long., oblongo-oblanceolat:ze, infra 
apicem obscure denticulate, apice obtusissime, 4-nervose. Disci 
corolle 0:7 em. long., tubo basi subito dilatato. Styli rami 
O'l em. long. Achznia 0:15 em., pappus 0*6 em. long. 
Allied to but à much bigger plant than S. Serra, Soud., the 
inflorescence of the two being very similar in outward appear- 
ance. The plant here described has much longer and relatively 
broader leaves, with a somewhat different margin, also only five 
ray-florets and fewer florets in the dise, &e. 
SPHENOGYNE BRACHYLOBA, Kunze, in Linnea, xx. (1847) 21. 
(Pl. 14 B. fig. 4.) 
This plant has been overlooked by Harvey, as indeed has the 
entire memoir (the author's third * Pugillus’) of which it forms 
part. The type is in the British Museum, where it is represented 
by two Leipzig Garden specimens from the Auerswald Herbarium. 
It undoubtedly belongs to section Thelythamnos, characterized 
by the absence—or narrowness when present—of a membranous 
edge to the outer involucral leaves, and this despite the fact that 
Kunze himself refers it to section JVerolepis, which contains 
speeies with all the involueralleaves broad-edged. Different from 
anything I have seen in the British Museum aud at Kew, the 
affinity of this plant is evidently with S. tenuifolia, DC., with 
which it agrees in having the same pseudo-scapose inflorescence, 
although the leaves of S. brachyloba are more scattered, and 
lobed instead of entire. The somewhat smaller involucral leaves 
also yield an easily recognized point of difference between the 
two species. 
