Phylica.] RHAMNEE (Sond.) aes 
smooth, shorter than the silky-villous segments; petals mitriform eu- 
cullate. P. squarrosa, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege! non Vent. Walpersia 
squarrosa, Presi, 
Has. Zwartebergen near Vrolyk, 3-4000, Drege! Aug. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D 
Shrub erect, 1-2 feet high, with sparing, erect, short in 08 Leaves 3-4 a 
long, 4 line wide. Petiole short, appressed. Head of flowers roundish, the size of a 
small Pisce Higeat nor. or involucre 6-8 lines long, thin and villous, hairs 
spreading, silky. yx 2 lines long, ish white. Known from P. rigida 
capitata by the smaller leaves and fale ae the petals, : ~ 
_ 20. P. affinis (Sond.) ; branches sub-glabrous ; leaves approximate, 
spreading, arcuate-incurved, linear, acerose, obtuse, or acutish, with re- 
volute margins, convex, glabrous, and impressed punctate ubove, tomen- 
tose beneath, the younger rigid-ciliate; exterior floral leaves surrounding 
the roundish flowerhead, lanceolate, foliaceous, rigid-ciliate, with re- 
ea margins, the ciliz blackish; intermediate sub-foliaceous, ciliate- 
ugute, on longer petioles; interior somewhat longer, erect, linear, 
not ‘foliaceous, without and at top plumose-ciliate; bracteole hirsute ; 
about équalling the calyx; capsule globose, smooth ; area pretty large, 
Has. Cape (no station given) Drege! 6783. : 
Distinguished from the similar preceding by the rigidly-ciliate, yellowish upper 
_ leaves, smaller flower-heads, with different involucre. Flowers not perfect. Capsule 
the size of a pea, 
_ 21. P. reflexa (Lam.! ill. n. 2625); branched, crowded; twigs yel- 
lowish-tomentose ; leaves spreading or reflexed, ovate, sub-cordate, callous- 
obtuse, flattish, smooth, punctate above, tomentose beneath, with slightly 
revolute margins, the younger fulvid-villous; heads of flowers hemi- 
spherical; involucre yellowish or fulvid; exterior scales foliaceous ; in- 
terior somewhat longer, lanceolate, not foliaceous, plumose-hirsute ; 
bracteol villous ; calyx slightly conical, fulvid-hirsute, segments acute, 
erect, twice as short as the tube; petals cucullate. Comme. prael. p. 
62, f. 13, P. cordata, Herb. un. itin. n. 630. non L. Soulangia cordata, 
E. § Z, 1049. en oe es 
~ Has. Rocky places on the summit of the Tablemountain, Ecklon. Nov. (Herb. 
~ Lam., Wendl., Lehm., Sond.) 
A yellowish green shrub, t-2 feet high. Lower leaves mostly sub-reflexed, about 
§ lines long, 24 lines wide ; upper 4 lines long, 2 lines wide. Petiole 1-2 lines long, 
_ appressed ; the leaves surrounding the flower-head or the exterior involucre not dif- 
fering from the other leaves ; the interior involucre gradually smaller, and destitute 
of lamina, surpassing the flower-head, 6-8 lines in diameter. Calyx short, pedicel- 
late, 2 lines long, equalling the bracteoles. From P. callosa L., with which it is 
confounded by authors, if differs by yellowish colour of heads and twigs, and 
large, feathery, and involucrated heads. 
22. P. tortuosa (E. Meyer!); much branched ; twigs fastigiate, hairy ; 
— leaves sub-imbricate, incurved-erect, linear, acerose, callous-acute, hairy- 
ciliate, at length glabrous, punctate-scabrous, with revolute margins ; 
heads of flowers hemispherical; involucre with 3-4 rows of scales; the 
exterior foliaceous, as well as the intermediate ciliate; the interior 
longer, surpassing the flowers, villous-hirsute ; bracteole small, villous; z 
calyx tubular, smooth, 5—dentate, teeth acute, without hirsute, within — 
__gibbous, smooth ; petals cucullate.. ; oe 
