490 -- REHAMNE® (Sond.) [Phylica. 
Has. Rocky places, Zwartebergen near Klaarstrom, 2-3000 f. Drege! Nov. 
(Herb. Lehm., Sond., T.C.D.) 
Stem and branches erect, greyish; twigs crowded, short, sometimes yellowish. 
Leaves green, 3—4 lines long, }-t line wide; petiole 3 line long. Head of flowers 
greenish, 4-6 lines in diameter. ‘Exterior involucre leafy ; intermediate scales longer 
petiolate, the interior linear, 4 lines long, somewhat longer than the villous heads. 
Calyx 2 lines long, slightly funnel-shaped, equalling the bracteole. Style short. 
Differs from P. afinis by the erect, shorter, scabrous leaves, much shorter flower 
heads, with yellowish not blackish cilia, &c. 
** Petals setaceous or wanting. (Sp. 23-28.) sf 
23, P. capitata (Thunb. ! prod. p. 45); stem erect; branches and 
twigs erect, villous-pubescent ; leaves spreading, lanceolate, or linear-lan- 
ceolate, with revolute margins, villous or sub-glabrous above, whitish- 
tomentose beneath; floral ones a little spreading, very villous, heads of 
flowers roundish ; bracteole villous ; calyx villous, segments subulate, 
glabrous above, spreading, longer than the tube ; petals minute, setaceous, 
or wanting. . 
Var. a, lanceolata; leaves lanceolate, at length glabrous, shining 
above, Heads of flowers large, greyish, white, or yellowish. Burm. Afr. 
t. 44, f. 3. P. capitata, Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 203. Steb. fl. cap. exs. n. 
67. Fl. mixt.n, go. E. & Z.! 1025. Wendl. / coll. 2, t. 50. Bot. Reg. t. 
711. P. plumosa, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 253. P. pubescens, Ait. Kew. 1. p. 
268. Willd. Herb. fol. 1 § 3. DC. 1. c. p. 36, Zey.! 2211. 
eee B. eee 3 ee eet or sub-linear, ge 
ig Or curvate-erec illous; heads of fi la th - 
coloured. Drege.! 6780.” oe oe 
- Var. y. brachycephala ; branches smooth, except the youngest twigs; 
eaves lanceolate, curvate-erect, glabrous and shining above, the younger 
sub-villous, the floral ones very villous ; heads of flowers much smaller. 
Drege.! 6781. 
small, equalling the calyx, or shorter. Cal lines long, segments very 
small. Petals often wanting, in some specimens very eal eae thie ie inflexed — 
filaments. Capsule roun smooth, the size of a large pea; area small. Seeds 
ovate, nut brown. Very similar to P. plumosa, differs by. the larger heads of flowers, 
7 P, rigida (E. & Z.!); branches, twigs, and petioles tomentose ; 
ha approximate, spreading, or slightly erect, rigid, lanceolate, from 
dake te base tapering into a rigid mucro, with revolute margins, 
cont 2 a shining above, tomentose beneath ; the younger villous; 
one = aay elongate, sub-filiform, villous, plumose, surrounding and 
rer n the globose head of flowers ; bracteole yery villous, equalling 
ae: thout (i ealyx at length glabrous ; segments subulate, 
ents pees glabrous, but bearded in the middle ; petals 
sag ye Hb. Drege.! non Thunb. Walpersia 
