198 Harry Bolus. 
Cape Colony, South-western region, district Worcester, on the 
Matroosberg, alt. circ. 6,500 ft., fl. Jan., A. Bolus (6367! in my herb.). 
This species is interèsting as an example of a mountain form, or 
of what is often called an „Alpine“ form (an objectionable term, as | 
venture to think, because of its ambiguity as leading to a possible con- 
ception of the Alps of Europe). While very near its congeners in general 
structure, it is completely different in habit from them all. On the same 
mountain (the loftiest in the South-western region of South Africa, and 
attaining a height of 7,400 ft.), several other plants of a similar habit 
have recently been found by Dr. R. Marloth, who has published an 
interesting paper on them in the Transactions of this Society, vol. XI, 
part 3, pp. 161—168, with several illustrations. One of the species 
figured (Felicia bellidioides Schltr.), though a herb, very much resembles 
the present species in habit, I have but one specimen of the latter, 
which seems to have been broken off just above the collar. 
8. Phymaspermum appressum Bolus, l. c., p. 139 (Compositae-Anthe- 
mideae). 
Ph. foliis arcte appressis, ovatis, cuspidatis, minimis; capitulis 
terminalibus, hemisphaericis; involucri squamis  4-serialibus, glabris; 
receptaculo convexo; floribus radii 10—14, disci 40—50. 
Suffrutex erectus, ramosus, 2—4-pedalis; rami adscendentes, tenues, 
foliosi, nervis foliorum decurrentibus striati, tomentosi, inferioribus 
sterilibus, abbreviatis, 0,7—1,5 cm longis, foliis imbricatis dense vestitis, 
superioribus florigeris elongatis, 5— 10 cm longis, foliis remotioribus usque 
ad basin capitulorum; folia sparsa saepe gemmifera, sessilia, appressa, 
ovata, crassa, glabra, nitida, juniora acuta, vetustiora demum longe cus- 
pidato-aeuminata, 0,2—0,4 cm longa, cuspidibus membranaceis, setiformi- 
bus, brunneis, laminam aequantibus vel excedentibus, subtus 3-nerva, 
nervo medio prominente, incrassato, longe decurrente, nervis lateralibus 
nunc obscuris nunc etiam incrassatis decurrentibusque; capitula in 
ramulis superioribus nunc brevibus nunc elongatis, terminalia, solitaria, 
corymbos irregulares laxos mentientia; involucrum  hemisphaericum, 
squamis erectis, imbricatis, 4-serialibus, glabris, siccis, rigide papyraceis, 
pallidis, exterioribus brevioribus, ovatis, subobtusis, carinatis, interioribus 
oblongis, basi calyculatum, 0,7—0,8 cm longum et latum; receptaculuín 
convexum, pilis brevissimis articulatis parce sparsum; flores radii 1- 
seriales, circa 10—14, ligulis oblongis albis, 0,7 cm longis; fl. disci ©, 
ca. 45—50, 5-lobi, tubo glanduligero, flavi, 0,3 cm longi, styli truncati, 
breviter ciliolati fimbriative; achaenia cylindrica, 10-costulata, glandulosa, 
pallida, 0,2 cm longa; pappus subnullus vel costulis in denticulos brevis- 
simos productis. 
Cape Colony: South-western Region; rocky mountain-side on the 
Zwartberg Pass, distr. Prince Albert, alt. about 4,700 ft, Dec. (1904) 
H. Bolus, 11551. 
Distinct by its peculiar, very small, appressed, ovate, thick leaves. 
In other respects it may be near the little-known Ph. junceum Less. 
