_ Phylica.) RHAMNEZ (Sond.) 487 
__ B. Flowers sessile or sub-sessile, spiked or in heads, each sub-tended by two or 
: three lateral bracteole. (Sp. 15-58.) 
a, Calyx obconical or cylindrical, segments about the length of the tube, or not 
much shorter. (Sp. 15-56. 
a. Plumose ; flowers inyolucrated with very long, villous or feathery bractex, 
forming mostly a beautiful plume at the summit of the branches, Anthers 
2—celled. (Sp. 15-28.) 
* Petals cucullate. (Sp. 15-22.) 
15, P. plumosa (Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 203); branches and twigs pu- 
bescent ; leaves linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, awl-shaped, smooth above, 
tomentose, hairy beneath, with revolute margins; floral leaves villous | 
or hirsute, spreading, much longer than the flowers; spike oblong or 
toundish ; bracteol villous, twice as short as the tubular, minutely 
pulose calyx ; hairs of the tube reversed, appressed ; segments ovate-lan- 
ceolate, erect, twice shorter than the tube. e 
Var. a. horizontalis ; spike small, roundish; leaves sub-linear, vil- 
Malm. n. 57. obs. 3; DC. 1. ¢. p. 35, £.§Z.1 1028. P. plumosa, Spreng, 
“ ¢. DP. 105. Fs 7° Lam, all. te 127, fe 4. Drege ! 6777 b. Ley! 2212. 
Var. 8. squarrosa ; spike roundish, leaves spreading, sub-lanceolate, . ~ i 
ae 
Wey 
, eree et; branches virgate, downy ; leaves 
id, with revolute margins, silky-downy 
s Roy YW 
lous, spreading or erect, floral ones silky-plumose. P. horizontalis Vent. any YE 
ere 
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