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letevirentia, nunc villis brevibus canescentia. Calyces 3 lin. 
longi. 
B. decumbens, laxa, foliis majoribus, inflorescentia laxiore. 
Tulbagh valley, Ecklon and Zeyher ! Dutoitskloof, Drege ! 
and in several other collections. The var. 8. is from Bowie! 
From a memorandum of J. de St. Hilaire’s, in the Banksian 
herbarium, Lamarck’s name would rather apply to A. stellaris ; 
but his description suits better the present species, not unlikely 
to be confounded with A. stellaris, but quite distinct both in 
foliage and inflorescence. 
Series IJ. SxmicExm. Folia plana, spins brevia, superiora 
terna, rarius solitaria, inferiora sepius v. rarius omnia gemmarum 
evolutione fasciculata, sericea v. molliter villosa. Flores: sessiles 
v. subsessiles, capitati, spicati v. solitarii, mediocres v. majusculi. 
Petala in omnibus villosa, longiuscule unguieulata. Legumen 
(ubi notum) oblique ovatum, acutum et calyce brevius v. rarius 
acuminatum calyce paullo longius, ex ovario villoso villosum v. 
sericeum. 
$ 1. Callis sub foliis viz conspicuis nec aculeatis, floribus in 
capitulo v. spica terminali numerosis v. (im A. villosa) paucis.— 
Polyanthæ. 
The species of this group, chiefly natives of the Ceder- 
bergen, are particularly difficult to distinguish, and run much 
into one another. 
* Ovario biovulato. 
23. A. villosa (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 574), folis ternis sub- 
fasciculatisve parvis oblongis acutiusculis muticis sericeis, capi- 
tulis paucifloris, bracteis oblongo-linearibus, calycis sericei laciniis 
oblongis linearibusve tubo subæquilongis, legumine e basi obliqua 
ovato longe rostrato.— Caules lignosi sed tenues et debiles, 
ramulis filiformibus. Folia internodiis sæpius breviora, vix 2 lin. 
longa, corollæ 32 lin. 
Cederbergen, near Honigvalley, Drège ! Bockland, Thun- 
berg. 
— 24. A. sericea (Berg. Pl. Cap. p. 212) foliis dense fasciculatis 
brevibus anguste oblongis subeuneatisve obtusis v. vix acutis 
