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deuticulate-ciliate at tlie margin, with a dorsally-projoctiiinr mucro 

 tipped by a gland, represented by a pit in the older leaves, £V-4 liu. 

 long, 3-5 lin. broad, passing gradually into bracts at the top of the 

 flowering shoots, bearing several iniuute setse in their axils, which 

 pass in the axils of the bracts into long branchetl hairs ; stipules, 

 when present, subulate, very short or rarely up to 1 lin. Ion*'' ; 

 flowers 5 to many in sliowj^ terminal heads | to 2^ in. in diam. ; 

 pedicels 1^1 i lin. long ; bracts fimbriate, with a gland-tipped niucru 

 like that of the leaves^ lower sterile, very widely obovate and leaf- 

 like, median sterile, broadly cuneate, membranous along the margin, 

 6-9 liu, long, 5-7 lin. broad^ upper fertile, membranous, narrowly 

 cuneate to oblong, 7-8 lin. long, 2-4 lin. broad ; bracteoles inserted 

 half-way up the pedicel, oblong or linear^, fimbriate, tipped with a 

 glandular mucro less prominent than that of the leaves, nearly or 

 quite as long as the bracts, I-li in. broad; perianth flesh-coloured 

 (Bolits), 8-11 lin. long; tube cylindrical, dilated at the throat, 

 neaily twice as long as tlie limb, tinged with red; lobes ovate, 

 -acute or obtuse, 3-4 lin. long, lA-2i- lin. broad, reflexed when 

 fading ; anthers sessile or subsessile, cells slightly shorter than the 

 connective ; ovary glabrous. A. DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 488 ; GUg 

 in Engl, d' Pmntl, Pjlanzenfam, iii. 6 A, 212. 



South Africa: without locality, Ecklou & Zeyker \ Bowie \ 

 Coast Kegiox ; Caledon Div. ; stony places ou the Klein River MountainSj 

 Ecklon & Zci/Jier, 11 1 sandy places ou the mountains near Hemel en Aarde, 

 Zeyher, 3725 ! hills between Caledon and Elim, Bolus, SiSi ! top of a mountain 

 near Hermanns, Bolus^ 9S25 ! Bredasdorp Div, ; mountains near Elands Kloof. 

 Schlechter, 9745 ! 



5. B. rupestris (Sond. in Linna\a, xxiii. 101); a chvarf under- 

 «hrub : partly clecumbentj of an alpine rhododendroid habit, under 

 6 in. high ; branches arising from a short thick rootstock, glabrous, 

 thickly beset with leaves above, defoliated below, 2-4 in. long; 

 leaves very close-ranked, imbricate, erect or spreading, sessile or 

 very shortly petiolate, obovate, obtuse, with the dorsal nerve not 

 evident, 4-6 lin, long, 2-3 lin. broad ; petiole J lin, long, with 

 several very minute setc^ in its axil ; stipules when present minute, 

 subulate; flowers in 2-4-flowered terminal racemes, each flower in 

 the axil of a leaf-like bract ; racemes sometimes overtopped by a 

 subterminal branch ; pedicels about 1 lin. long, with two small scars 

 (probably of caducous bracteoles) half-^vay down, each scar bearing 

 axillary set?e ; bracts rather smaller than the leaves, tinged with 

 red; perianth about 5 lin. long, rosy-red (Sonder) ; tube oblong, 

 8-ribbed, a third longer than limb ; lobes ovate ; stamens | lin. long, 

 cells shorter than the connective ; ovary glabrous ; ovules usually 

 2 in each cell, erect, sometimes 4 in each cell, inserted half-way 

 down on an axile placenta, 2 erect and 2 pendulous, raphe extrorse 

 in all; seeds erect or pendulous, according to their position as 

 ovules. A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xir, 488. 



Coast Eegiox : Caledoo DIr. ; stony places on Klein River Mountains, Znjher ! 

 clefts of rocks on the seashore, near Hermanns, Bolas^ 9827 ! 



