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4. G. microcephala (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 589) ; stems many, 

 about 1 ft, high, probably annual from a woody base, virgate, 

 glabrous; leaves alternate, subulate-linear, 4-6 lin. long, slightly 

 incnrvecb channelled above, faintly keeled below ; heads terminal, 

 many-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolatej 3 lin. long, outer 1 lin. 

 wide, inner 1| lin. w^ide, glabrous except sometimes on the margins; 

 -calyx-tube with a basa^b glabrous swelling |- lin. long, deciduous 

 part hairy outside and -2 lin. long ; lobes oblong, hairy outside, 

 obtuse, 1 



ovoid, glabrous except for a tuft of long silky hairs from the base ; 

 style short ; stigma capitate. Rendle in Trans, Linn, Soc, ser. 2, 

 iv. 40 ; Pearson in Dyer, FL Trop. Afr. vi. i, 225. (T ^iguridid ji 



Oilgin EngL Jalirh, xix. 263. Gnidioi^ms minrjcephala^ Van TiegJieni 



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in BnIL Soc, BoL France, xl. (181)5), 76. 



Kalahari Rkgion : Orange River Colony ; Bcoter.s Vlei near "Witzies Hoek, 

 5300" ft., Bolus, 8244! Transvaal; Magaliesberg, Bm-hr^ 96! Zei/her, 1492! 

 Wonderboompoort, JReJuaann, 4530 ! near Pretoria, BurU-Davij^ 685 1 2541 ! 

 Rusteaberg, Mis^ Pefjla\ 977 ! near Lydeiiburg, Wilm^ ! Abbotts Hill, Earberton, 

 3500 ft., Galpin, 1011! Witbank, Middelburg distr., Giljillan in Herb. Galpin, 



7236 ! 



Eastern Eegion : IS'atal ; Biggarsberg, 4000 ft., Wood, 846 1 grassy flat near 

 Lambonjwa River, Tugela dir^trict, Wood^ 3447 ! near Pieterrnaritzburg, Wilftis, 

 2247 ! Howick, ^Irs. Hutton, 423 ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 30S0 ! 

 Gerrard^ 1389 ! Swaziland ; Havelock Concession, 4000 ft., SaUmarshe in Herb, 

 Galpin. 1011 ! 



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5. G. pinifolia (Linn. Sp, PI. ed. i. 358, not of Linn, f.) ; bianclies 

 forked or fastigiate, glaLrous, rather slender, leaf-scars rather close, 

 moderately prominent ; leaves alternate, acerose, pungent-acnminate, 

 up to 8 lin, long and ^- lin. "^vide, glabrous, involucral rather wider; 

 heads many-tlowered ; calyx densely hairy outside ; tube 6 lin. 

 long, the lower quarter inflated and triangular in section, upper 

 part subcylindrical ; lobes oblong or obovate, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 

 1^- lin. wide; petals 4, 1 lin. long, anther-like, fleshy, densely hairy 

 all over ; anthers oblong, obtuse, f lin. long; ovary shortly stipitate, 

 labrous; style nearly as long as the calyx-tube; stignm capitate. 

 Berg, Descr, PL Gap, 122; Thrnl, Prodr. 76, and FL Cap. ed. 

 Schdt. 379 ; Andr. Rep. t. 52 ; Lodd, Bid, Pah, t. 7 ; Bot, Brg, f. 19 ; 

 BoL Mag. t 2016; WiJcstr, in VeL Acad, IlnmU. SfockL 1818, 310; 

 Meisn, in Linnaeuy xiv. 445, and in DC. Prndr. xiv. 589 ; Drege, 

 Zwel Pfl, Documented S3, 105. G. radiaia ^ Linn. MnnL 67 j Lodd. 

 BoL Cah, L 29; Wendl BoL Bi^ohacht, 15,/. 2/fig. 12. G, SrJdeLh 

 ten, Gandog, in BidL Soc, BoL France^ ]x. 417, 1913. Canalia daph- 

 noides, Schmidt in Flora, 18Z0, b^'y.—^ rrpnncidus foliU nerto^^ls 





linearihits, Burm, Bar. Afr, PL 112, t. 4:1^ Jig. 8. 



Var. P ocliroleuca (Bot. Keg. t. 624) ; more slender than the type ; leaves 

 patent, obtuse, bright green ; involucral leaves stellately arran^^erl • calyx yellow 

 oul^ide except at the purple base; petals nearly as long as the calyx-lobea. 

 Meisn. in BO, Prodr, xiv. 5^0. G, ocJcroleuca. Lodd, Bot. Cah t nS4 



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