288 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Petalacte. 
terminal, solitary. Inv. imbricate in many rows, the scales woolly at base ; outer 
_ short, appressed, acuminate ; inner very long, radiating, lanceolate, acuminate, rosy- 
purple, very showy. Name from gaewos, shining, and koun, a head of hair. 
“1. P. prolifera (Don.), Less./ Syn. 358. DC./1.c. Xeranth. prolife- 
‘rum, Linn. Helichrysum proliferum, Willd. Bot. Mag. t.2365. Bot, Reg. 
t.21. Andr. Rep. t. 374. 
Has. Mountains in Stellenbosch, Worcester, and Caledon. (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, Branches mamillated with minute twigs. Heads 1-14 inch 
across, very splendid. 
XCVI. PETALACTE, Don. 
Heads 10-20-f1., moneecious, all the fl. tubular, 5-toothed ; the mar- 
ginal few (1-3) female, hidden among the innermost inv. scales ; the 
rest male. Jnv. imbricated, the outer scales scarious, very hairy; inner 
stipitate, tipped with petaloid, (white), radiating, obtuse laminz. Lecept. 
with marginal palez, naked in the middle. <Achenes beakless, glabrous, 
the central ones abortive. Pappus slender, in one row, capillary, that 
of the male-fl. subplumose or clavate at the apex. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 267. 
Small shrubs or half shrubs with white-woolly, entire, alternate, spathulate or 
obovate leaves. Heads in corymbose, shortly-peduncled glomerules. Outer inv. 
scales very shaggy, rufous or light brown; inner with woolly claws, at the apex 
expanded into a broad, petal-like spreading lamina. Name from zwerador, a petal, 
and activ, aray. In habit they resemble Helichrysa of the section Dasylepidea. 
Outer iny. scales very woolly, stipitate ; inner with subrotund 
potelold tipi: <a. 5sacicesneee Gases Poe ee 
Outer inv. scales laxly villous, broad-based ; inner with oblong, 
petaloid tips rss eee cree Sees > ave GRY SS obec ase ee eo E OONOODNe 
1. P. coronata (Don.); leaves spathulate-oblong, coriaceous, on both 
sides albo-tomentose, tipped with a black mucro; outer inv. scales 
stipitate, very woolly, with small tips; inner with broadly obovate, 
subrotund, white tips; pappus shortly plumose. DC. l. c. 267. Peta- 
lolepis coronata, Less.! Syn. p. 357. Gnaph. coronatum, Linn. Th.! Cap. 
650. Gn. Achille, Sieb. Fl. No. 14. 
Has. Western Districts, common. Zey.! 893. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A woolly suffrutex, about a foot or 18 inches high, erect, not much-branched ; 
(1) coronata. 
_ the branches virgate. Leaves 3-1} inch long, 2-3 lines wide, tapering to the base- 
Heads several together in a tuft ; the tufts in a branching corymb. Inv. scales 
with opaque white, rarely rosy or purple laminas. P. discolor, Don seems to be & 
trifling variety, with discoloured rays. 
2. P. canescens (DC. 1. c. 267) ; leaves obovate-oblong, thinnish, on 
both sides albo-tomentose, tipped with a brown mucro ; outer inv. scales 
broad-based, loosely woolly, with brown, ovate, glabrous tips ; inner 
with linear-oblong, white tips; pappus-bristles thickened towards the 
summit, serrulate. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 7310. Mts. round Swellendam, FZ. ¢ Z.! e! Zey.! 290%. 
(Herb. D., Hk, Sd., Cap.) est bist 7, 
A straggling, or decumbent, slender euffrutex, much less robust and woolly than 
P. coronata. Leaves } inch long, 2-3 lines wide, flexible. Heads in a simple, few- 
headed corymb, subsessile. Outer iny. scales deep brown, inner with snow-white tips- 
