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in upper £ or § , glabrous ; ultimate leaf-segments l-2 - 5 cm. long, 

 long and acutely mucronate. Capitula solitary or racemose, 

 axillary and terminal, -6- - 7 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, surrounded 

 by the upper leaves ; peduncles 25-3 - 5 cm. long, terete, sulcate, 

 minutely pubescent, bearing scattered ovate long-acuminate acute 

 glabrous bracts. Involucral-bracts about 3-seriate, 4-5 mm. long, 

 2-5 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, obtuse, faintly ciliate ; floral 

 bracts 4 mm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, subacute, 

 glabrous, ciliate. Perianth segments 6*5 mm. long, linear, widened 

 slightly below, albo-villous except on the widened portion at the 

 base ; limb 1 mm. long, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous. Anthers *75 mm. 

 long, oblong, with a swollen gland? at the base. Ovary 1 mm. long, 

 oblong in outline, glabrous ; style 6 mm. long, almost linear, very 

 gradually narrowing above, glabrous; stigma globose. Hypogynous- 

 scales 1 mm. long, linear, acuminate, acute. 

 Houw Hoek, Caledon Division. Marloth 4844. 



The specimen agrees quite well with Meisner's description, and I 

 have no hesitation in referring it to this species. It is allied to 

 S. anethifolia, Kn., but the leaves are thinner and the limb of the 

 perianth segment quite glabrous. 



