Phylica.] RHAMNEE (Sond.) 501 
Var. 8. imberbis; leaves linear or linear subulate, bluntish; calyx 
appressed-pubescent. P. imberbis, Berg.! 1. ¢. p. 51. non Thunb. nec 
L.& Z.! BP. bruniades, Lam. ill. n. 2620. 
Var y. secunda; leaves linear or linear subulate. secundate, acute, 
smooth or nearly so; calyx pubescent. P. eriophoros, Berg. var.! P. 
secunda, Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 201. Herb. un. itin. n. 633. E. & Z.! 1034. 
P. tenuis, Spreng. P. ericoides, E. Mey. in Hb. Drege, a and b. Tylan- 
thus secundus, Presl., Drege, 6759, 6769. 
Has. Hills near Capetown and on the Cape flats, near Tulbagh, in Hott. Holl. 
Grasbergrivier and Waterwal. May.Jun. (Herb. Holm., Thunb., Lam., Hook., 
T.C.D., Wendl., Sond.) 
Shrub, about 1 foot high, greyish. Twigs short. Leaves approximate, 6-10 lines 
long, 1 line wide, slightly tapering at base, the lower smoothish, upper appressed- 
pubescent. Petiole 4-1 line long. Capitula many-flowered, sub-globose, woolly, 
about 3 lines in diameter. Bractez longer than the subulate bracteole. Calyx 14-2 
‘lines long; segments erect, at length spreading. Petals complicately cucullate. 
Anthers 2-celled. Style cylindrical. Capsule crowned with the calyx, as large as a 
small pea. Var. y. is more slender and sub-glabrous, has smaller leaves, and often 
capitula 4 inch long, with longer bractez. 
56. P. cephalantha (Sond.); twigs very minutely pubescent; leaves 
approximate, short-petioled, erecto-patent, linear, with revolute mar- 
gins, terete, obtuse, scabrous, hamate-recurved at top; heads of flowers 
spherical (small), solitary, involucrated by the uppermost, small ap- 
pressed leaves ; calyx campanulate, tomentose, longer than the hirsute 
bracteole, segments acute; petals cucullate ; capsule ovate, tomentose. 
P. eriophoros, E. § Z.! ex pte. P. parviflora, E. Meyer in Herb. Drege. 
c. ex pte, 
Has. Cape flats, E. & Z./ Drege, Dr. Pappe. May.—Sept. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) 
Shrub, about 1 foot high. Branches and branchlets clothed with a yellowish or 
— down. Leaves 2 lines long. Capitulum as large as a pea, pubescent at base. 
alyx about 1 line long, with yellowish down at top. Capsule crowned with the 
calyx, as large as a small pea ; area small. Differs from P. ericoides by the obtuse, 
hamulate leaves and spherical capitulum ; from P. eriophoros by the small, terete, 
obtuse, scabrous leaves, and much smaller capitulum. 
b, Calyx cylindrical, segments about 4 times shorter than the tube. Phylica sect. 
Eriophylica, Meisn. Calophylica, Presl. (Sp. 57-58.) 
57. P. gnidioides (E. & Z.! 1037); branches sub-corymbose; twigs 
very minutely pubescent; leaves sub-imbricate, erecto-patent, linear, 
mucronate, compressed, sub-ancipital, glabrous, downy beneath, younger 
ciliate ; flowers capitate; leaves of the involucre acuminate, swb-coloured, 
ciliate, villous at base, equalling the calyx ; bracteolx ciliate; calyx 
white-tomentose, elongated, segments oblong-lanceolate, spreading ; pe- 
tals cucullate. P. (eriophylica) gnidiotdes, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vol. 2, p. 58. P. juniperifolia, E. § Z./ 1038. Calophylica gnidi- 
oides and juniperifolia, Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 39. Drege, 7360 (sub-Gnidia). 
Zey.! 3746. 
Has. Hills near Vanstaadensriviersberge, Port Elizabeth, Bethelsdorp and Oli- 
fantshoek, Uitenh., Mount Bothasberg near Vishrivier, Albany, 2. Z./ Lange- 
kloof, George, Dr. Krauss. Jul. (Herb. Sond., Lehm.) é 
Shrub over 2 feet ; branches brown-greyish ; twigs short. Leaves short, petiolate, 
opposite, yerticillate, mostly alternate, 3-5 lines long, } line wide, lower sub-remote, 
