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stylo in longitudine aequala. Capsula conica, loculo uno, valvis 

 tribus. Semina numerosa, complanata, capillis brevis ramentaceis 

 finibriata. 



Little Namaqualand : Kichtersveld ; among bushes on quartzite 

 hills north of Modderfontein, 6161. 



A dwarf undershrub, with a very short branched caudex. Stems 

 glabrous, brownish, with a grey-white bloom, wrinkled, with the 

 upper parts thickly beset with leaves. Leaves sessile, fleshy, 

 obovate -globose to cuneate, gibbous beneath, clothed with white 

 wool, 4-5 mm. long and broad, bearing in their axils several long 

 flattened yellow hairs, which are slightly curled or waved and 

 about 6 mm. long, a few persisting on the lower part of the stem. 

 Kaceme simple, few-flowered, with a glabrous peduncle, 5-8 cm. 

 long, and pedicels about 6 mm. long. Bracts opposite, ovate, 

 membranous and white above, and produced into a long point ; 

 otherwise like the leaves. Flower rosy (Pearson) : sepals boat- 

 shaped, subacute, slightly unequal, 5-6 mm. long, 3*5 mm. broad, 

 with about 15 parallel green nerves ; petals ovate-oblong or elliptico- 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 3*5 mm. long, 1*5-2 mm. broad ; stamens 

 twenty-one in the single flower investigated ; filaments 2-2*5 mm. 

 long; anthers oblong, 0*8-1 mm. long; ovary compressed (perhaps 

 the result of pressure in drying?), ovoid, 1 mm. long; stjle scarcely 

 1 mm. long ; stigmatic arms as long as style. 



2. A. affinis, sp. nov., affinis A. lanceolate, a qua in foliis 

 obovatis vel cuneatis, pedunculorum ramosorum longitudineque 

 differt. 



Fruticulus pumilus, caudice brevissimo (circa 2-5 cm.), ramoso, 

 aspero fulvoque. Rami breves (1-1*5 cm. longi) supra foliis dense 

 vestita, infra foliorum deciduorum basibus conferti. Folia sessilia, 

 crassa, obovata vel cuneata, infra parum eonvexa, acuta vel acumi- 

 nata, glabra, 8-12 mm. longa ; capillis stipulaceis axillaribus, numer- 

 osis, longis (ad 3 cm.), albis, nitidis, complanatis instructa. Bacemus 

 ramosus, 1-4 florus ; pedunculus longus (ad 15 cm.), glaber ; pedi- 

 celli circa 2*5 cm. Bractece, circa 6, sparsas, infers; foliacese, super* 

 lanceolatas, spathacea3, in nervis principibus coriacea, in margine 

 membranacea, foliorum longitudine dimidium, capillis stipulaceis 

 axillaribus instructa. Florcs non visi. Capsula 1-loculata, 6-den- 

 tata, 1*2-2 cm. longa. Semina parva, fulva, alis tribus albido-canis 

 instructa. 



