500 RHAMNEZ (Sond.) [ Phylica. 
hemispherical, exterior scales foliaceous, interior ones cuneate-ovate, 
sub-coloured, pubescent, shorter than the flowers; calyx turbinate, v- 
lous, on a short, very villous stalk, longer than the villous bracteole, seg- 
ments acute; petals cucullate. 
Has. Swellendam, Zcklon. Feb. (Herb. Sond.) 
A heath-like shrub, 1-2 feet high, with brown-greyish branches. Leaves 2 lines 
long ; the upper ones approximate. Capitulum as large as a pea or somewhat larger. 
Calyx 14 line long, with spreading segments. Without flowers it is very similar to 
P. abietina. 
53. P. disticha (E. & Z.! 1022); branches virgate, 2-3-chotomous, 
glabrous; twigs filiform, minutely puberulous; leaves erecto-patent or 
sub-appressed, short-petioled, lanceolate or linear-subulate, with revolute 
margins, swb-terete, obtuse or acutish, very smooth, downy beneath, 
the younger minutely appressed-pubescent above ; heads of flowers 
terminal (minute); involucre with ovate or obovate, acutish scales, 
puberulous; calyx turbinate, glabrous, twice longer than the hirsute 
bracteole, segments acute, hirsute ; petals mitriform-acuminate,; capsule 
turbinate, smooth. PP. empetroides, EL. & Z.! 1021. ex pte. P. microce- 
phala, E. § Z.! 1023. ex pte. non Willd. 
Has. Stony places in mountains, Howhoeksberge, Stellenbosch, and Zwarteberge, 
and Babylons Toorenberg, Caledon, E. § Z./ Zey./ 2216. Jul. (Herb. Sond. T.C.D.) 
_ A fine shrub, 1-2 feet high, with purplish branches and twigs. Leaves about 2 
lines long, $ line wide. Capitula as large as in P. parviflora, 5—10 flowered. Calyx 
about 1 line long. Capsule shining, about as large as the capitulum. 
54. P. brachycephala (Sond); branches elongate; twigs numerous, 
alternate, puberulous; leaves spreading, short-petioled, lanceolate or 
linear-subulate, with revolute margins, sub-terete, obtuse, smooth, downy 
beneath, the younger appressed, pilose above; heads of flowers (minute) 
solitary on scattered twigs, only involucrated by the uppermost leaves ; 
calyx campanulate, longer than the bracteole, as well as the cuneate 
ovarium, villous; segments acute; petals cucullate, obtuse. P. microce- 
phala, E. § Z.! 1023. ex pte. 
Has. Between rocks on in si illa “Gi y 
a he cies — sides near villa “Gideon Joubert,” Swellendam, 
Habit of the preceding, greyish. Twigs short. Leaves 1~2 lines long, very deci- 
duous ; the upper ones approximate, horizontal. Petioles pubescent. Capitulum like 
that of P. parvijlora, woolly, but the involucre consists only of a f Slate Linea 
Flowers about 1 line Len only of a few petiolate lea 
55. P. eriophoros (Berg.! pl. cap. p. 52); branches and twigs pubes- 
cent; leaves short-petioled, linear, acute, sub-villous, adult ones gla- 
brous, white-tomentose beneath, flat or sub-convex, with revolute mar- 
gins ; heads of flowers terminal, solitary, rowndish,; involucre shorter 
than the head ; calyx pubescent, longer than the linear, subulate, hirsute 
acteolex, segments acute, as long as the tube; petals cucullate; cap- 
sule roundish, appressed pubescent, at length glabrate. 
Var. @. Bergiana; leaves linear, acutish; calyx i P. 
‘ : 7 ; calyx woolly, hirsute. /. 
a ccs. Berg. 1. ce. P. lanceolata, Thunb.! jl. cap. p. 200. P. rosma- 
rinifolia, Lam.! ill, m. 2614. Lodd. Bott. Cab. t. 849. E. § Z.! 1036. 
P. secunda, Herb, un. itin. n. 633. ex pte, 
