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lobes, angled beneatli each lobe. Gilg hi Enal. d^ PrardI, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. 6 A, 212. Stylapterus encoides, A. Juss. in Ann. Sc, Nai. 3''*' sen 

 vi. 23 ; A.Da in DC, Prodr, xiv. 487. 



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SocTH Africa : without locality, Boxhurgh (Herb. Delessert) ! Nivcn (Briti-rh 

 Museum) ! 



10. p. barbata (Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. ii. 73); an erect much- 

 branched undershriib^ 1-2 ft. high ; branches glabrous or sparsely 

 scabrous ; leaves close-ranked, equally distributed, erect or suberect, 

 sessile, lanceolate to subulate, with the margin much thickened 

 beneath, leaving a broadly lanceolate central channel, with a very 

 narrow upturned edge above, dorsal nerve obscure, 3-5 lin. long, 

 |-1 lin. broad, exstipulate with a bundle of long simple pale brown 

 hairs in the axil at each side of the leaf, falling after the leaves ; 

 bracts of the form and size of ordinary foliage leaves, and provided 

 with similar bundles of hairs, persistent; bracteoles 3, rarely seen^ 

 linear-lanceolatC; leathery, not channelled beneath, one-third the 

 length of the leaves, caducous, leaving a scar on each side of the 

 apex of the pedicel ; perianth 2-3 lin, long ; tube cylindric-ovate 

 8-ribbed, hardly exceeding the limb; lobes deltoid-acute or acu- 

 minate ; ovary scabrous ; style with 4 flat oblong cruciform lobes,, 

 angled beneath each lobe. GUg in En<jJ, d- Pranily Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 6 A, 212. Stylapterus hirhatus^ A. Jnss. in Ann, Sc, Nat, 3'"* ser, vi.. 



23 ; A,Da in BO, Prodr, xiv. 486. 



South Africa : without locality, Roxburgh (Herb. Delessert) ! 



11- P. ericifolia (Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6 A,. 

 212, fig. 73, O) ; an erect much-branched undershrub, 1-1^ (?) ft. high, 

 of a heathlike habit ; branches glabrous or sparsely scabrous 

 continued beyond the flowering region; leaves close-ranked, equally 

 distributed, erect or spreading, sessile, acicular, flattened-trigonal, 

 very acute, 5-6 lin. long, ^~J lin. broad, with a bundle of very 

 minute brown seta* or a minute pulvinus on each side of their axils, 

 exstipulate ; flowers lateral ; bracts of the form and size of ordinary 

 foliage leaves, with sette in their axils, persistent ; pedicel 4 lin. 

 long, with a pair of scars (probably of very caducous bracteoles), 

 accompanied by minute seta3, at the base of the flower ; perianth 

 cylindric-ovate, 3-4 lin. long; tube 8-ribbed, twice as long as the 

 limb; lobes deltoid-acuminate; ovary minutely scabrous; style 

 filiform, expanded at the base into 4 short longitudinal ridges 

 alternating with the cells of the ovary, and at the apex into 4 

 upright ovate cruciform lobes (" 4-lobed stigma " of other authors), 

 also alternating with the cells of the ovary ; stigraatic surfaces as 

 i in other species 4, rather minute, cushion-like^ in the angles between 



the lobes. Brachysipho)! ericspfoJins, A. Juss. in Ann, Sc, Nat 3"'^ 

 ser, vi. 24 ; A.BC, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 487. 



South Africa : withoub locality, F.oxlurgh (Herb. Delessert) ! Niven (British 



Museum) ! 



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