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base. Capitulum sessile or subsessile, 14-16 cm. long, about 



10 cm. in diameter in half-opened flowers. Receptacle 2 cm. long, 

 convex ; palas 3 mm. long, ovate, acute, concave. Involucral-bracts 

 11-13-seriate ; the lowermost brown, subcoriaceous, ovate, glabrous, 

 ciliate ; outer ovate, acute, finely albo-pubescent, ciliate, white, 

 becoming dark above with age ; inner oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 acute, inflexed at the apex, finely albo-pubescent, white, exceeding 

 the flowers. Perianth- sheath 9 cm. long, albo-pubescent without 

 and within from the widened base upwards, dilated, 7-nerved, 

 3-keeled and glabrous below ; lip 2-2 cm. long, albo-tomentose, 

 produced into 3 tomentose or villous awns ; lateral awns 9 mm. 

 long ; median awn 7 mm. long. Stamens all fertile, sessile ; 

 anthers 12 cm. long, linear ; apical glands 2-5 mm. long, linear, 

 slightly swollen and reddish at the tip. Ovary 25 mm. long, oblong 

 in outline, covered with long white hairs 1 cm. long ; style 8-Bi cm. 

 long, curved, subterete, albo-pubescent in the upper half ; stigma 



11 cm. long, linear, subacute, with ragged margins, scarcely bent 

 at the juncture with the style, red. 



The specimen was bought in Adderley Street flower market, and 

 came from Constantia, near Cape Town. 



A specimen of P. cynaroides was collected by Mr. W. T. Saxton 

 close to the stream just beyond Smith's Farm, about 4 miles from 

 Cape Point, which had perfectly glabrous reddish involucral-bracts. 



P. pulchella, Andr., var. cdbiflora, Phillips, var. now Ivolucri- 

 bractese albae. Antherae apice glandulis albis instructs. Stigma 

 album. 



Branches tomentellous. Leaves 4-15^ cm. long, -7-P5 cm. broad, 

 linear to lanceolate-linear, acute, mucronate, narrowed at the base, 

 with a distinct mid-rib, glabrous. Capitulum sessile, 95-10 cm. 

 long, about 5 cm. in diameter, surrounded by the upper foliage 

 leaves ; receptacle 5 mm. high, convex ; palae ovate, acute, concave. 

 Involucral-bracts 10-12-seriate ; the lowermost tomentose or 

 pubescent, ciliate ; outer ovate, subacuminate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 ciliate ; inner oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a long- 

 claw, glabrous, with a fringe of hairs round^ the apex, exceeding the 

 flowers. Perianth- sheath 6-2 cm. long, villous, 7-nerved, 3-keeled 

 and glabrous at the base; lip 1*1 cm. long, pubescent on the sides, 

 more or less glabrous on the back, 3-awned ; lateral awns 6 mm. 

 long, filiform, villous ; median awn 2 mm. long. Fertile stamens 3 ; 

 anthers 4 mm. long, linear ; apical glands 1 mm. long, sub-acute ; 

 barren anther acute, eglandular. Ovary 3 mm. long, oblong in out- 



