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glabro, pistillo semipollicari glabro incluso stylo gracili stigmate oblique dilatato, 
ovario biloculari loculis 2-3-ovulatis. 
Nearly related to the Natal species, Crabbea hirsuta, Hary., from which it differs by 
broader leaves and by the more conspicuous hoary hairs on the bracts. 
The principal figure in Pl. VI. A. represents the natural size of the specimen; the 
detached flower is enlarged to two diameters ; and the other more detailed dissections are 
more considerably enlarged. 
Serpa Pinto, no. 21. 
VERBENACE. 
28. LANTANA SALVIFOLIA, Jacq. Hort. Schcenbr. iii. p. 18, t. 285 (1798). L. salviefolia, 
Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 605, n. 41 (1847), cum syn. 
This species is widely distributed over both Tropical and Extratropical South Africa. 
Serpa Pinto, no. 23. 
ILLECEBRACE X. 
24. Genus vix adhuc descriptum. 
Flores hermaphroditi in capitulum terminale solitarium  bracteolatum aggregati. ^ Perianthium 
inferum siccum 5-phyllum ; segmenta erecta lineari-oblonga vel linearia imbricata quincuncialia 
apiculata chartacea margine scariosa apice excepto lanata carinata trinervia, exteriora latiora sub- 
longiora lanatiora. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5 subhypogyna inter se subzequalia glabra perianthio 
subbreviora ; filamenta complanata tenuia basim versus dilatata ad basim connata ; antherze biloculate 
oblonge. Ovarium superum ovoideum ventricosum basi excepta lanatum 1-loculatum apice 
distylum ; stylus alter filiformis glaber perianthio subaquilongus apice minute capitatus stig- 
matosus, alter abbreviatus externe lanatus corniculatus abortivus. Ovulum pendulum e funiculo longo 
apice curvo a basi ovarii ascendente. 
Herba facie graminea, foliis supremis oppositis anguste linearibus sessilibus valde acutis pollicaribus. 
The affinity of the genus appears to be with Cometes, L., which consists of two species, 
one belonging to North-eastern Africa and Tropical Arabia, the other to Persia. We 
refrain from giving a new name till more of the plant is known. 
Our specimen consists of the upper portion of the plant, 4 inches long, unbranched ; 
the stem is straight and grass-like, about 10-striate, subterete, slender, of a pale yellowish 
green colour, very nearly glabrous, except the. uppermost part above the only pair of 
leaves extant on the specimen. Leaves more erect than spreading, nearly straight, 
minutely scabrid on the margin. Stipules попе or fallen. Capitulum ovoid, $ in. long, 
not quite as much in thickness, bracteolate, mixed with white cottony wool; peduncle 
$ in. long, clothed with short white woolly hairs, bearing rather above the middle a pair 
of opposite ovate-acuminate caducous sessile 1-nerved bracts with green midrib and 
broad scarious margins, measuring } in. in length. Flowers indefinite, crowded, sessile. 
Bracteoles ovate-lanceolate or linear, apiculate, cottony at the back, glabrous on the 
inner face, about as long as the flowers, with broad scarious margins. Perianth-seg- 
_ ments §-4 in. long. 
_ Бегра Pinto, no. 64. 
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