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8. L.' striata (Meisn. in Linnaaa, xiv. 415) ; a shrub, corymbosely 

 branched ; branches terete, pubescent, slender ; leaves alternate, 

 sessile, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, subpungent, with 

 3-5 nerves prominent beneath, conspicuously ciliate on the margins, 

 otherwise glabrous ; heads terminal, 8-16-flowered, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, not invol aerate ; calyx-tube 1^ lin. long, glabrous, oblong 

 and inflated in the lower half, cylindrical above ; lobes ov^ate-oblong, 

 acute, 1| lin. long, 1 lin. wide, hairy on both surfaces, red or white ; 

 scales ligulate, nearly 1 lin. long ; stamens shorter than tbe calyx- 

 lobes ; ovary oblong, glabrous ; style lateral, filiform ; stigma 



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mentey 77. Passerma striata^ Lam, Ennjel, v, 44, and III. t. 291, 

 fig. 1. P. nervosa^ Wil^'^^tr. in Vet, Acad. IlamlL StocM. 1818, 328. 

 GonnphyUa nervosa, EckL d Zeyli, ex Meisn. in DC. Profh\ xiv. 577 ; 

 Dr^'fje in Linnsea, xx. 209. 



Coast RhgiOX: Clauwilliam Div. ; Clanwilliam, Madcr in Ilrrh. MarOvan, 

 2-210 ! l^akhuis Pass, Ceder Berg Range, 3000 ft., Bolu9, 90S7 ! Tulbagh DIv. ; 

 Great Winter Hoek, 3000-4000 ft., Drerje ! \\orceater Div. ; Worcester, Zcyherl 



9. L. densiflora (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 578) ; a much- 

 branched shrub j branches terete, at first pubescent j leaves acerose- 

 linear, sessile, not conspicuously nerved, 3-5 lin. long, ^ lin. wide, 

 glabrous ; heads solitary, terminal, globose, many-flowered ; peduncle 

 3 lin. long, turbinate at the apex, toraentose ; calyx white, shortly 

 hairy outside ; tube f lin. long, constricted above ; lobes ovate, 

 1 lin. long, f lin, wide, acute, hairy inside as well as outside ; 

 stamens shorter than the calyx lobes ; scales filiform, ^ lin, long ; 

 ovary oblong, glabrous ; style terminal, hairy in the upper part ; 

 stigma papillate. Bolus d: Wolley-Dod in Trans. S, Afr, PhiL Soe, 

 xiv. 315. 



South Africa: ^vithout locality, Burlcl Thoml Suher\ Grcyl Zeijher, 1483! 



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branches ; leaves alternate, linear, pungent, 5 Tin, long, A lin, wide, 

 slightly narrowed at the base; flowers in terminal heads which 

 often elongate into spikes 4 lin, long, 8- to many-flowered ; peduncles 

 about 3 lin. long, incrassate and ribbed above, pubescent; calyx 

 white, densely silky outside and on the inside of the lobes ; tube 

 1^ lin. long, inflated below, cylindrical in the middle, funnel- 

 baped above; lobes broadly ovate, nearly as long as the tube, 



1 lin. wide; stamens much shorter than the calyx-lobes; scale, 

 filiform, almost concealed in the dense hair of the throat; ovary 



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