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p. 63 of the present volume, appears to differ but slightly from 
the preceding species, but I have not seen any specimens 
of it. 
Cape District. Krauss. 
VI. PgiEsTLEYA. DC. ex parte, E. Mey.—Priestleya et 
Xiphotheca Eckl. et Zeyh. 
This genus, as above characterised, contains all E. Meyer’s 
species excepting the P. axillaris, which has more of the 
character as it has entirely the habit of Amphithalea. The 
two sections, first established by De Gandolle, but modified 
as to limits, both by E. Meyer, and Ecklon and Zeyher, 
though somewhat different in habit, yet run much into one 
another and are not distinguished by any essential character. 
It appears better, therefore, with E. Meyer to retain them 
as mere sections, not as distinct genera, as established by 
Ecklon and Zeyher. 
Sect. 1. Isothea DC. Calyx basi demum intrusus. Carina 
rostrata. Habitus fere Liparie. Frutices siccitate sepius 
nigricantes, glabri v. pilis longis laxis villosi. : 
1. P. graminifolia (DC. Prod. 2 p. 122,) foliis lanceolatis 
v. lineari-lanceolatis acutis uninerviis ramulisque glabris, flo- 
ribus pedicellatis in capitulo oblongo, bracteis lanceolatis 
pilosis, calycis pilosi laciniis tubo triplo longioribus, superio- 
ribus lanceolatis, infima oblonga paullo longiore membrana- 
cea.—Liparia graminifolia Linn! Mant. p- 268.—Crotalaria ` 
genistoides Lam. Dict. 2. p. 196, belongs probably to this or 
the following species. i 
Cape Colony, Forbes / | 
2. P. angustifolia (Eckl. et Zeyh! Enum. p. 165,) foliis 
lanceolato-linearibus acutis concaviusculis obscure uninerviis 
glabris v. superioribus ramulisque pilosis, bracteis lanceo- 
latis acutis pilosulis, floribus pedicellatis, calycis pilosi laci- 
niis lanceolatis subulato-acutis, infima superioribus dimidio 
longiore.—P. umbellifera E. Mey. Comm. p. 17 an DC?—. 
I have considerable doubts whether this is Thunberg's Lipa- 
ria umbellifera, which appears to me rather to refer to P. 
