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ForsJcohlecL] VRTWXCEJE (Brown). 557 



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adpressed hairs on the basal part outside ; lol)es obovate, often 

 nearly as broad as long, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, ciliate,' green, 

 becoming whitish-brown in fruit ; flowers about 6-14 male and 3-4 

 female in each involucre, intermingled with clinging matted white 

 wool; perianth of the male flowers entire, cuneate-obovate or 

 cuneate-oblanceolate, shghtly hooded at the subacute apex ; stigma 

 f lin. long. Thunh, Prodr, 77, and FL Cap. ed. Schultes, 385 ; 

 Murray, Syst. Veg, ed. xiv. 437; Wllld. Sp, PL il 475; Wedd. 

 Monogr. Urtlc. 536, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^^; Sehinz in Bull 

 Herb, Boiss. iv^ 4i^j>e?id. iii. 51 {not of Alton). F. scahra, Betz. Oh>t. 

 BoL iii. 31. 



Var. 0: virescens (Wedd. iu DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 235-^^); leaves green on the 

 under sui'face, otherwise as in the type, F, viridiSj E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl, 

 Documentej 90, not of Elirciiberg, 



Coast Rkgion : Riversdale Div. ; sandy banks of the Gouritz River, Boicie ! 



Ckntual Region ; Calvinia Div. ; Hantam and Koggeveld MountaiuSj Thunberr/ 1 

 Prince Albert Div. ; Jakhals Fontein, Burke I Graaff Reinet Div. ; near the 

 Sundays River, Bolm^ 474 ! Beaufort West Div. ; near Salt River, ZeyJier, ILi-k ! 

 Var. /Q : Prince Albert T>1\\ ; near the Gamka River, Burke I 



Western Region: Great Namaqualand; various localities, Sehinz, 856, 857, 

 Stcingrover, 3, 5, Fcnchel, 113, 150, 151, Wandres, 23, and Fleck, 175, es Sehinz 1 

 Little Bushmanland ; Naroep, Schlechter I Van Rhynsdorji Div. ; Stinkfontein. 

 Schlechter, 11089! Var. jS : Great Xamaqualand ; near \Yiivmha.d, Pearson, 4372! 

 Little Namaqualand ; Silverfontein, Brhge I west of Pella, Pearson, 3553 ! 



Pearson 8546 from between Klein Karas and Holoog, appears to be a hybrid 

 between F, Candida and F. hereroensis, having the leaves and small involucre of 

 the former combined with the lanceolate acute involucre-lobes of the latter, and 

 at Kew a branch of true F. Candida is mingled with it. 



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2. F. hereroensis (Sehinz in BulL Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 

 1) ; an. annual or perennial herb about |-1 ft. high; stem and 

 branches rough with rigid upcur^'ed hairs and sometimes also 

 puber ulcus ; leaves alternate; petioles 1-4 lin. long; blades 3-12 

 lin. long, 1^-9 lin. broad, elliptic or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 

 cuneate at the base, with 2-3 teeth on each side, margins revoluto, 

 rough and glabrous above, white-felted on the under surface, with 

 short rigid curved hairs on the margins and veins beneath; stipules 

 1 J,-2 lin. lung, very broadly ovate, shortly mucronate, ciliate, mem- 

 branous, pale brown ; involucres in pairs in each axil, sessile, 

 obconic-campanulate, 4-7 lin. long, usually 6-lobed to about half- 

 way down, densely covered with long adpressed dusky hairs on the 

 cup and base of the lobes outside ; lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliate 

 and thinly covered with adpressed short hairs on the back, green, 

 becoming whitish-brown in fruit ; flowers about 9-10 male and 

 4-5 female in each involucre, intermingled with clinging matted 

 white wool ; perianth of the male flowers 3-lobed, lateral lobes very 

 small, at the base of the terminal ovate acute middle lobe ; stigma 



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Western Regiox: Little Namaqualand; Silverfontein, 2000-3000 it., Brege 

 vallej leading to Bethany Drift, Pearson, 6046 I 



Also in Damaraland. 







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