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5. M. bellidifolia (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 382) ; an 

 annual herb, erect, puberulous^ branched at or near the base or 

 simple, 3-16 in. high, not or scarcely glossy ; stem or basal branches 

 scape-like or sparingly leafy, erect or ascending, leafy at the base ; 

 lower leaves subradical, rosulate, oblanceolate or elliptical, rounded or 

 at least very obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, rather thick, crenu- 

 late, dentate-pinnatitid or subentire, glabrous or minutely pulverulent, 

 -J— 3i in. long, i- 1 in. broad ; petioles -J— 1 in. long ; ujiper leaves 

 few, subsessile ; flowers i— f in. long, yellow, pale-buff or milk-white, 

 several or numerous, racemose, at first capitate, at length elongating 

 and subspicate ; racemes short or in fruit up to 6 in. long ; pedicels 

 up to i in, long, bracteate at or above the base ; bracts subulate, . 

 puberulous, usually not exceeding the pedicels ; calyx minutely 

 puberulous or subglabrous, deeply 5-lobed, J-^ in. long ; segments 

 linear or lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla-tube minutely papillose, rather 

 slender, about twice as long as the calyx, somewhat curved or nearly 

 straight ; throat naked ; lobes obovate or oblong, entire or nearly so, 

 ra-i in. long ; one pair of stamens included, the other projecting or 

 appearing at the mouth of the corolla and barren ; capsules oval, 

 glabrous, about ^— i in. long, mostly distant. BG. Prodr. x. 3G4 ; 

 liarv. Thes. Cap. ii. 62, t. 197. M. crassifolia, Benth. in Book. I.e. 

 and in DC. I.e. partly. 



South Afeica : without locality, Zenker, 1282! 



Coast Region: Alexandria Diy. ; Quaggas Flats, Echlon! Bathurst Div. ; 

 near Theopolis, Burchell, 4098 ! Albany Div. ; at Linch's Post, Bowie .' and 

 without precise locality, Miss Boivher ! Queenstown Div. ; by the Klipplaats 

 River, nearShiloh, 3500 ft., Brege, 7919c ! Bam; 769! 940! near the Zwart Kei 

 River, Miss Bowker, 231 ! Mrs. Barber, 315 ! Wylde Drive, near Queenstown, 

 3700 ft., Oalpin, 2387! Upper Oxkraal River, Baur! and without precise 

 locality. Cooper, 369 ! 2864 ! 



Central Region: Somerset Div. ; Bowker ! Aliwal North Div.; stony and 

 rocky phices on the Witte Bergen, 7000-8000 ft., Brege, 7919(i ! 



6. M. arabidea (Schlechter MSS.) ; an annual herb, erect, slender, 

 rather shining, minutely glandular-puberulous, 2-4J in. high, loosely 

 branched ; leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate, cauline and 

 radical, elliptical, obovate or oblanceolate, rounded or very obtuse, 

 attenuate into the petiole, repandor denticulate, membranous,;-! in. 

 long, ^V-| in. broad ; petioles up to | in. long ; flowers racemose, at 

 tti-st subeapitate, rather numerous, about J in. long ; pedicels up to 

 about J-i in. long, rather slender, the upper shorter ; bracts tiliform 

 or narrowly spathulate, the lower i-), in. long, alternate, the upper 

 subulate, smaller ; calyx deeply 5-lobed, ^V-iV in- lo°g' glandular ; 

 segments narrowly oval, obtuse, somewhat concave; corolla-tube 

 minutely or obsoletely glandular outside, rather slender, somewhat 

 funnel-shaped towards the top ; mouth finely pilose or papillose ; 

 limb spreading, about i-} in. in diam. ; lobes roundly oval, entire or 

 nearly go, about ^^-} in. long ; anthers all reniform, one pair sJiortly 

 exserted ; style shortly exserted ; capsules roundly oval, about ^^ m. 

 long. 



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