498 RHAMNE (Sond.) [ Phylica. 
Has. Cape, Gueinzius. (Herb., Sond.) 
Shrub, over 1 foot high, with ascending branches and mostly crowded, red twigs, 
clothed with longish hairs. Petiole 1 line long, appressed. Leaves 5-6 lines long, 
14 line wide. Capitula as large as those of P. ericoides ; sometimes by the aggregate 
twigs corymbose, greyish-white. Calyx 1} line long, segments short, acute, some-— 
times sub-lanceolate. Bracteole 1 line long. Capsule unripe, roundish, glabrous. 
Differs from P. rubra by the hairy twigs, larger leaves, and flower-heads ; from P. 
gracilis, by larger, flat, not cordate, leaves and capitulum ; from P. atrata, by the 
not cordate, ciliate leaves, and smaller heads. 
47. P. bicolor (L. mant. 208); branches erect ; twigs hirsute ; leaves 
spreading or reflexed, upper ones sub-erect, short-petioled, dénear-lanceo- 
late, acutish, hirsute, tomentose beneath, with revolute margins, adult 
ones glabrous and punctate above ; heads of flowers swb-globose or ovate, 
dense; involucre shorter than the head, as well as the linear-bracteole 
fulvid or yellowish ; calyx longer than the bracteole, tube ovate-oblong 
with reversed hairs, segments ovate-lanceolate, very hirsute ; petals 
complicately-cucullate. R. & Sch.l.c.p.479. DC.l.c. p. 35. P. strigosa, 
Berg.! cap. p. 50. ex pte. Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 200. Herb. Un. itin. n. 
631. Sieb. fl. cap. exs.n.190. E. & Z.! 1030. 
Has. Rocky places on the Steenberg, near Muysenberg, and on the top of the 
i east, Grubb., Thunb., E. $21 Pages. Pantbers, Drege. Tune 
(Herb., Holm., Thunb., Wendl., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Shrub, 2-3 feet high ; branches often verticillate, sub-glabrous on the lower, but 
very villous on the upper part. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 1-1} line wide, upper ones 
smaller. Petiole 4-1 line long, appressed. Capitulum as large as a cherry, very 
villous, many-flowered ; outer leaves of the involucre greenish, the inner ones golden. 
ie he 3 lines long ; segments thrice shorter than the tube. Anthers bilocular. 
48, P. nigrita (Sond.); twigs minutely pubescent; leaves spreading, 
short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth, tomentose beneath, with 
revolute margins ; heads of flowers solitary, hemispherical ; involucre 
Jlat, its scales rowndish, acute, midribbed ; calyx turbinate, glabrous, 
longer than the subulate villous bracteole, segments lanceolate, vil- 
lous ; petals cucullate, roundish. Zrichocephalus atratus, E. & Z.! 1004. 
excl, syn. 
Has. On mountain sides, Hauhoekberge, and in Knafflockskraal, Stellenbosch, in 
Mount Zwarteberg, Caledon, #.§ Z./ Jul-Aug. (Herb., Sond., T.C.D.) 
1 foot high ; branches erecto-patent ; twigs erect, rigid, greyish. Leaves blackish 
when dry, 3 lines long, } line wide, rigid, mucronate, or sub-obtuse, convex above, 
sulcate beneath. Petiole 4 line long. Capitulum woolly, 4-5 lines in diameter. In- 
volucre brownish, Calyx 14 line long ; segments spreading.—In habit it agrees 
nearly with P. trachyphylla and P. gracilis ; in characters, with P. ericoides, from 
which it differs by the robust habit and larger heads. 
ote gulosa (Sond.); twigs minutely appressed, pubescent ; leaves 
Tn g or secundate, upper ones erect, very short-petioled, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, with a recurved point, appressed, pubescent, at length 
pes and punctate above, tomentose beneath, with revolute margins ; 
se flowers solitary, lax, 5-8-flowered; involucre short, with ap- 
m pg calyx tubular, clothed with reversed hairs, thrice longer 
pera pi nade ee short, ovate, lanceolate, erect, at length 
p. 200, non Berg. : ss cucullate. P, eriophoros, Pivanb.t Jl. cap. 
