38 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM, 
rough with minute, rigid hairs. Leaves at intervals of 1-2 inches, alter- 
nate, with a 1-4 inch long petiole, which is ear-clasping at base; the 
lamina 2-3 inches long, 3-1 inch wide, broadly lanceolate, acute at each 
end, denticulate, both sides rough with minute hairs, the lower surface 
rather paler. Heads ending the branches, and also on short, axillary, 
few-leaved twigs, many flowered. nv. pale, pubescent, 2—3-seriate, 
of many, subulate, pubescent scales. ays spoonshaped, scarcely ex- 
serted, and much shorter than their own styles. Pappus subunise- 
riate, of unequal, rough bristles. JVowers seemingly white. 
This is one of many interesting species sent to me from the Katberg 
by Mr. Henry-Hutton. It is strange that so conspicuous a plant should 
have escaped the notice of Ecklon, Drege, and other laborious explorers 
of the Katberg Mountains; but it shows how much still remains to be 
done in districts which are comparatively well known. In foliage it 
has some resemblance to P. pyrifolia, but differs remarkably in habit 
and in the flower-heads; more particularly in the very short, spoon- 
shaped ray-flowers, and the deficient pappus. These latter differences 
seem to be specific rather than generic. 
Fig. 1. Part of a flowering branch; the natural size. Fig. 2, a ray-flower; 3, its 
spoon-shaped ligule, front view; 4, disc-flower; 5, stamen; 6, apex of style of disc- 
flower; 7, apex of a pappus-bristle; variously magnified. 
159. CYPHIA PERSICIFOLIA, Presl. (Campanulacee.) 
__G. persicifolia: glabra, caule erecto simplici angulato, foliis ses- 
silibus erectis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis rigidis margine revolutis re- 
moté serrulatis, spica basi nudiusculé multiflora, floribus subsessilibus, 
pedicellis bractea lanceolato-acuminata utrinque pauci-dentaté 2-3-plo 
brevioribus apice bracteolatis, lobis calycinis lanceolato-acuminatis ser- 
ratis erectis tubo turbinato longioribus petalis 4-plo brevioribus, antheris 
glabris—4. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7, p. 498. 
Has.—Eastern distri i 
Bowker! Mrs. F. ales on CHa TOD)” ae a eb gd 
Descr.— Root tuberous. Stem erect, 12-18 inches high, closely 
leafy in the lower half, the upper leaves gradually smaller, and ending 
in scales, All parts glabrous. Leaves 13-24 inches long, 2-4 lines 
wide, broad based, quite sessile, linear lanceolate, with revolute mar- 
gins, remotely denticulate ; the uppermost narrower and more acumi- 
nate. Spike slender, laxly many-flowered, subpedunculate. Bracts 
subulate, few-toothed, shorter than the calyx. Calycine lobes much 
shorter than the nearly equally lipped corolla, serrulate, nerved. L/a- 
ments broad-based, pubescent above the middle; anthers quite glabrous. 
A graceful species, not uncommon, perhaps, on the eastern frontier 
and the neighbouring districts of Cafferland. My drawing is made from 
some of Mr. Bowker’s excellently prepared specimens. The dorsally 
glabrous anthers are of rare occurrence in Cyphia. 
Fig. 1. Base of stem; 2, spike; the natwral size. Fig. 3 i 
; ee : i . 3, a flower; 4, front view of 
stamen; 5, back view of anther; 6, stigma; variously annie as 
