492 RHAMNE (Sond.) [Phyliea, 
foliaceous, lanceolate, feathery-hirsute, with villous margins, longer 
than the flower-head ; bracteole small, villous, equalling the calyx; 
segments of the calyx subulate ; petals setaceous. Walpersia curnifolia, 
Presi. 
Has. Mountain sides, Outeniqua, George, Krauss, Jan. Drege! 6790. Aug. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) : 
2 feet high or more, branches virgate. Leaves crowded, about 4 lines long, 1 line 
wide. Petiole erect, 1 line long. Head of flowers half an inch in diameter. Interior 
scales of the involucre 6 lines long, about 1 line wide, brownish, appressed-villous, 
at top whitish, hirsute. Receptacle woolly. Calyx 24 lines long. 
28. P. trachyphylla (Sond.); twigs pubescent ; leaves slightly spread- 
ing, arcuate-curved, lanceolate, callows-mucronate, with revolute margins, 
papillose-scabrous above, tomentose beneath, the younger villous ; heads 
of flowers hemispherical, exterior leaves of the involucre villous,*the in- 
termediate linear, the interior ones longer, plumoso-villous ; bracteole 
small, villous, equalling the very villous calyx ; segments of the calyx 
lanceolate, shorter than the tube, bearded on the throat within, petals 
setaceous. T'richocephalus, trachyphyllus, E. § Z./ 100t. 
Has. Amongst Rocks, Wi ee te: ay 
terre ers ks, Winterhoeksberge near Tulbagh, Worcester, 2. 
‘Shrub, 2 feet high, branches umbellate. Leaves 4 lines long, about 1 line wide ; 
petiole erect, $ line long. Heads of flowers 6 lines in diameter, surrounded by the 
uppermost leaves. Interior scales of the flowerheads about 6 lines long, dense, 
bom villous at the top, longer than the flowerheads. Calyx 24 lines long. Petals 
-B. Ericoides. Flowers in spherical or hemispherical heads; involucre leafy, flat, 
ie Weeitaot ‘cal, shorter or not longer than the flowers. (Sp. 29-56.) 
* Petals setaceous or wanting. (Sp. 29-31.) 
29. P. retrorsa (E. Meyer!); twigs pubescent ; leaves (minute) re- 
Hlexed, sessile, ovate, obtuse, cordate at base, with revolute margins, gla- 
brous and papillose above, tomentose beneath ; heads of flowers woolly ; 
scales of the involucre ovate or lanceolate, coloured ; calyx turbinate, 
very villous, segments ovate, acute ; petals setaceous or wanting. 7'y- 
lanthus retrorsus, Presl. : 
Has. Roodeberg & Ezelskop, 4-5000 f. Drege! Novy. (Herb. Sond , Lehm., T.C.D.) 
_ Shrub, much branched ; twigs umbellate, greyish or brownish. Leaves crowded, 
in about 4 ranks, 1 line long, or smaller Capitula about the size of a large 
pea. Scales of the involucre red, greenish or whitish, striate, about 1 line long. 
Bracteole subulate, villous, equalling the calyx. Calyx 1 line long, hairs of the seg- 
ments . I never found the petals, but according to W. Arnott, in Hook. 
vam. Bot. vol. iii, p. 2§3, they are setaceous, as in T'richocephalus. Anthers 
tate-scabrous above, tomentose beneath, with revolute margins ; 
4-5000 f, 
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