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Dlv. ; Sueeuwberg Kange, 4000-5000 ft., Brege, 5000-6000 ft., BoJus, 129 1 

 2500 ft., MarOwan, 971 ! Marraysburg Div. ; near Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Tfjson, 

 196 ! Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld, between Rhiuoster Kop aud Ganzefontein, 

 3500-4500 ft., Bregel Fraserburg Div. ; between Zak River and Kopjes Fontein, 

 Burekell, 1499! Carnarvon Div.; at Leeuwefontein, Burchell, 1522! near 

 Carnarvon, Bnrchell, 1537 ! at Buffels Bout, Barchell, 1595 ! near Van Wyks 

 Vley, Alston in MacOican, Herb, Austi\'Jfr., 1787 ! Victoria West; Kieuwveld, 

 between Brak River and Uitvlugt, 3000-4000 ft., Dreje ! Richmond Div. ; 

 Winterveld, near Limoenfontein and Groot Tafelberg, 3000-4000 ft., Breje ! 

 IVLiddleburg Div. ; near Middleburg , Road, Flanagan, 1380! *SVm, 2207 ! Colesberg 

 Div. ; Colesberg, Arnot ! 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Lachanabis, Dinter, 901! 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; diamond fields, Nth<m, 256 ! Warrenton, 

 Mks Adams, 81 ! Orange Free State; on the Orange River near Aliwal North, 

 Kuiitze ! Bechuanaland ; Pellat Plains, BurcheU, 2243 ! south of Takun, 

 Bnrchell, 2222! Traasvaal ; Sterkstrooni River, Burke, 517! and without precise 

 locality, Iloluh ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



2. A. sericocephalus (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 561); an erect 

 sparingly branched shrub nearly 1 ft. high ; branches terete, pilose ; 

 leaves linear, acutely acuminate, 9-12 lin. long, J-1 lin. wide, 

 glabrous, 1-nerved; head globose, 9 lin. in diani., many-flowered; 

 p<iduncle 2-8 in. long, pilose, hearing a few reduced leaves ; involu- 

 cral bracts few, ovate, acuminate, 5 lin. long, H Hn. wide; calyx 

 about 4 lin. long ; tube suboylindric, pilose outside, circumscissile 

 just below the middle and with a tuft of hairs 2i lin. long near the 

 base ; lobes 5, about \ lin. long, ovate, subacute, fleshy ; stamens 10 ; 

 achene ovoid, \^ liu. long, granular-punctate. Gnidia Pretorise^ 

 Gihj in 0. Knnize, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 281. 



South Africa : without locality, Ztylicr, 1494 ! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Rhinoster River, Barle ! Bechuana- 

 land ; between Mafeking and Ramoutsa, Lugard ! Transvaal ; Mooi River, Burke I 

 Aapjes River, Burke I Pretoria, Kuntze ! WouderLoompoort, BeJimann, 4529 1 

 BL>lit'ontein, Rustenberg, JcuJdyis, 6904: \ Collins, 123! WavmbathSf Miss Lee nda-tz, 

 1333 ! Potgietersrust, Miss Leendertz, 1919 ! and without precise locality, McLea 

 in Iltrl. Bolus, 5798 ! 



3. A. calocephalus (C. A. Meyer in Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. 

 Petersb. i. 1845, 359); a branched shrub about 1^ ft. high ; 

 branches virgate, usually simple, slender, terete, often reddish- 

 brown, pilose ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, up to 1-^ in. long and 4 lin. 

 wide, the uppermost sometimes elliptic, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. wide, all 

 acute or subobtuse, with numerous long adpressed hairs on both 

 surfaces, silky when young; heads terminal, many-flowered; in- 

 volucral bracts similar to the upper leaves, long-silky ; receptacle 

 hemispherical; calyx white, 6 lin. long, densely villous outside, 

 constricted and circumscissile about H lin. above the base, slightly 

 wider above ; lobes 5, ovate or oblong, f lin. long ; upper anthers 

 slightly exserted ; ovary oblong ; achene oblong, finely granular 

 beneath the shining pellucid epidermis, enclosed in the glabrescent 

 calyx-base, 3Ieisn. in DG. Prodr. xiv. 561. Pas^erina calo- 



