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leaves lance-linear and linear, involute, spirally twisted, spreading or 
squarrose, the axils gemmuliferous or nude ; heads 5-fl., glomerated, 
many in the glomerule ; outer inv. scales very woolly, with lanceolate, 
white or red glabrous points ; inner (petaloid) imbricated in 3~4 rows, 
the outer acute or subacute, the inner very obtuse or truncate ; pappus 
club-shaped, obtuse. M. glomerata, M. rosea and M. muraltiefolia, 
DC.! l.c. 252-253. Gnaph. capitatum and Gn. Cephalotes, Thunb.! Cap. 
646, 643. 
Has. About Capetown and in the Western Districts, frequent. (Herb. Th., D., 
Cap., Hk., Sd.) 
More robust than M. divergens, with much larger and more compound head-clusters 
and a different involucre. Leaves 4-7 lines long, squarrose, crowded ; or erecto- 
patent, without gemmules. Thunb.’s ‘“ G. capitatum” is precisely DC.’s “ M. rosea.” 
““ M. muraltiefolia” seems to be merely a luxuriant form. ‘ Jf. Cephalotes,’ DC. 
is quite a different species, our J. concinna. 
4. M. cymbeefolia (Harv.); stem robust, erect, branched and ramu- 
lous, the twigs, woolly ; leaves erecto-patent, straight or scarcely twisted, 
obovate-cymbiform, tapering to the base, very convex and glossy at back, 
concave and woolly above, pungent-mucronate; heads 3—4-fl. glomerated ; 
outer inv. scales very woolly, inner (petaloid) imbricated in 3-4 rows, 
concave or spoonshaped, obtuse, dorsally apiculate, rosy ; pappus lanceo- 
late, flat, acute, serrulate. Jf divergens, var. y.nudiuscula, DC. / l.c. p.252. 
Has. In the district of Caledon, Ecklon! (Herb. Cap., Sd., D.) 
A strong growing, twiggy bush, 1-2-ft. high, the younger branches and twigs 
closely leafy. ‘Leaves of the branches sparingly gemmiferous; of the twigs with 
nude axils, 3—4 lines long, 1-1} line wide, boatshaped, remarkably convex at back 
and almost petiolate at base. Glomerules globose. Mature fi. heads not seen. The 
pappus, even in the half-formed flowers is remarkably broad and flat, tapering at base, 
lanceolate above. If this bea mere form of M. divergens, it is indeed a memorable one, 
5. M. depressa (Harv.) ; dwarf, procumbent or prostrate, divaricately 
much branched, the twigs woolly ; leaves squarrose, ovate-cymbiform, 
sessile, convex and cobwebby or glabrate at back, concave and woolly 
above, mucronate, mostly gemmuliferous ; heads 5-fl., glomerated, few 
together; outer inv. scales very woolly, with lanceolate, brown, glabrous, 
acuminate points ; inner (petaloid) uniseriate, spreading, flat, subacute, 
white ; pappus clubshaped, obtuse. MV. divergens, Eckl. Herb., ex pte. 
= Summit of Table Mountain, Ecklon!, Pappe!, W. H. H. (Herb. Cap., D., 
.» Hk. ‘ 
A sential shrublet, many-stemmed, spreading over the rocky soil, closely twiggy, 
the twigs short, leafy. Leaves 2-3 lines long, almost always with small ones in the 
axils. Heads 3-6 in each cluster. Allied to M. cymbefolia in foliage, but much 
smaller, and with very dissimilar involucres and pappus ; it differs from J. divergens 
chiefly in its foliage and prostrate, ramulous habit. 
6. M. divergens (Don, |. c.); divaricately branched, diffuse; leaves 
linear, or lanceolate, mucronate, spirally twisted, squarrose or reflexed, 
the axils almost always gemmuliferous; heads 5-flowered, glomerated ; 
outer inv. scales very woolly, with subulate, brown, glabrous, acuminate, 
recurved points; inner (petaloid) uniseriate, spreading, flat, lanceolate, 
acute ; pappus clubshaped, obtuse. Less. / Syn. 329. DOC.l.c.252, ex pte. 
Gnaph. divergens, Th. ! Cap. 645. 
