556 URTicACE^ (Brown). [AustmUna. 



South Africa; without locality, Thunhcrgl 



Coast Rkgton : XJitenhage Div. ; bv the river near Eiion, Bregc, h ! Stutter- 

 heim Div. ; forest at Fort Cunyngbame, 3300 ft. , Galpin, 2443 1 King Williamstowu 

 Div. ; Yellowwood River, Drege, a ! Queenstown Div. ; mountain side, Bowkers 

 Park, 4000 ft., Galpin, 2605 ! 



CE^'TRAL Region: Somerset Div.; on Bosch Berg, Burchdl, 3144! 3212! 

 Bolus, 1813 ! Cradock Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 3518 ! 



Kalahaiu Region : Orange River Colony ; Bloeinfontein, BeJimann, 3S35 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Durban Flats, Wood, 1970 ! and without precise 

 localitv, Gerravd, 265 I 



Probably Parietaria cuneata, Eekl. k Zeyh. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 88, and 

 in YLmn^^^^Bextr. Ft. Cap- und Natal. 151, belongs here, and that '' Eckl. & Zeyh." 

 is merely an error for the authority E. M^yer. It was collected near Knysna, 

 Krauss, 1827j but I have not seen a specimen. 



Involncr^ 4-7 lin. long, with lanceolate acute lobes ... (2) hereroensis. 



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1. P. Candida (Linn. f. Suppl. 245) ; an annual or perennial herb 

 ^"1^ ft. high ; stems and branches scabrous with rigid short 

 upcurved hairs ; leaves alternate ; petioles 2-8 lin. long ; Idades 

 ■J-l-jl^ in. longj 2^-12 lin. broad, ovate or elliptic, obt.nse or subacute, 

 cuneate at the base, with 3-5 teeth on each side, margins 

 revolute and as well as the veins beneath and the petiole scabrous 

 with short rigid curved hairs, upper surface rough, glabrous or 

 thinly pubescent, under surface thinly white-felted : stipules -^-1 lin. 

 long, broadly ovate, mticronate, membranous, pale brown ] involucres 

 in pairs or solitary in each axil, sessile, obconic-cauipanulate, 1^-4 

 lin. long, 4-7-lobed to below the middle, densely covered with long 



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VII. FORSKOHLEA, Linn. 



Apparent floicers consisting of a 2~7-Iobed compressed or obconic- 

 campanulate involucre containing one female flower or a number of 

 male or female flowers embedded in and clinging to densely matted 

 white wooL 3Iale flowers surrounding the female ; pmanth bract- 

 like, of one segment, very shortly ^tubular at the base (or open all 

 the way down?), flattish or concave above, entire or with a short 

 lateral lobe below the apex on each side ; stamen one ; anther ^ 



inflexed in bud. Female flower consisting of a compressed-ovoid or 

 elliptic one-celled ovary terminating in a filiform deciduous stigma, 

 without perianth or stamens ; ovule solitary, erect, basal. Achene 

 compressed-ellipsoid j with a crustaceous pericarp. 



Perennial or annual herbs; leaves alternate, stipulate; involucres sessile, in 

 pairs or solitary, axillary, resembling flowers. 



DxsTRiB. Species 6 in Tropical and South Africa, Atlantic Me^, Socotra and 

 Arabia, 



Involucre lJ-4 lin. long, with broad obovate obtuse or 



subacute lobes „ ... (1) Candida. j 



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