Phylica.} RHAMNE (Sond.) 499 
Has. Near Capetown, Thunb., Sieber ; sandy flats near Krumrivier, Zeyh. 321. 
Jul, (Herb, Thunb, Hook., Sond.) set air 
rub, erect, 1-1} foot high, greyish ; branches alternate ; twigs erecto-patent 
_ 1-3 inches long. Leaves 5-6 lines long, 1 line wide, upper ones smaller peg more 
appressed. Flowers spicate-capitate. Bracteze lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. 
Calyx 2 lines long, greyish, hairs rigid, retrorse, in the segments rarer. Anthers 
le ager to P. montana, but differing by the hamulate leaves, the head 
and petals. : 
50. P. ericoides (L. spec. p. 283); branches fastigiate; twigs thinly 
pubescent ; leaves short-petioled, spreading or erectish, linear or linear- 
subulate, bluntish or acute, smooth, downy beneath, margins revolute ; 
heads of flowers terminal on the sub-wmbellate twigs, small; involucre 
hemispherical, its scales ovate, foliaceous, cuspidate; calyx turbinate, 
smooth, longer than the very villous bracteol, segments ovate, acute, 
hirsute ; petals concave, cucullate; capsule smooth. Commel.hort. Amst. 2. 
t.1. Berg. cap. p. 49. Thunb. fl. cap. p. 199. Bot. Mag. t. 224. Spreng. 
Berl, Mag. viii. p. 103. t. 8. f. 1. P. glabrata, Thunb. 7. c. P. acerosa, 
herb. Wilid.! herb. n. 4686. fol. 1 & 2. P. microcephala, Willd. ! herb. n. 
4695. P. ertcoides, H. Meyer in herb. Drege, e. LP. imberbis, ericoides et 
eriophoros, EH. & Z.! 1010. 1014, 1015. Lylanthus eriophorus, Presi. 
Has. Sandy places near Capetown; at Vankampsbay, Caledon, Gnadenthal, and 
Cape Agulhas. Nov.Aug. (Herb., Thunb., r. Berol., Wendl., T.C.D., Sond., &c.) 
Shrub, erect, 1-3 feet high. Lower leaves about 4 lines, upper ones 3 lines long, 
4-3 lines wide, in cultivated specimens often wider, very smooth. Capitulum as 
large as a pea, at base pubescent, involucrated by the uppermost leaves. Flowers 1 
line long. e crowned by the calyx, as large as a very small pea ; area very 
small.—P. g ta, Thunb., Herb., is a specincen with a little larger leaves. The 
true P. ericoides has been confounded by Thunberg with P. rubra, var. 8. parvifolia. 
51, P. parviflora (L. Mant. 209); branches slender; twigs pubes- 
cent; leaves small, short-petioled, spreading or erect, /anceolate, subulate, 
acutish, pilose, scabrous, downy beneath, margins revolute ; heads of 
flowers minute, terminal, solitary on paniculated twigs ; involucre hemi- 
spherical, its scales rhomboid-ovate, acute, hirsute ; calyx turbinate, 
smooth, longer than the hirsute bracteole, segments ovate, acute, hir- 
sute; petals concave-cucullate ; capsule smooth. Berg. cap. p. 48, Thunb. 
l. c. Herb. Un. itin. n. 634. Sieb. flor. cap. exs. n, 08 and 183. #.& Z.! 
1020, P. parviflora, E. Mey. in Herb. Drege, ¢. ex pte. Tylanthus parvi- 
Jlorus, Presi. 
Has. Sandy places in the Cape Flats, common near Saldanhabay and Grooteport. 
Jan. and following months. (Herb., Sond., T.C.D., &e.) : ae 
Stem brownish or greyish, smooth, over 1 foot high. Branch “ aggrega A i 
filiform, the ultimate very short. Leaves 1-2 lines long. Capitula invo arn y 
the uppermost leaves, as large as a hempseed or a small pea. spe te, oe I 
line long. Capsule small.—Distingui from the preceding by the —_ my rous 
leaves and small paniculated heads. P. parviflora, Willd. ! Herb. n. 4678. fol. 1.—= 
P. rubra, Willd. Herb. n. 4693 ; 2.== Grubbia rosmarinifolia, Berg; 3.== Phylica, 
doubtful species, similar to P. alpina. 
52. P. selaginoides (Sond) ; branches crowded ; twigs minutely pu- 
bescent ; ‘ame pene Sec, short-petioled, linear, with 
revolute margins, terete, obtuse, with inflexed point, smooth, downy beneath, 
the younger often villous; heads of flowers terminal, solitary ; _ 
