108 Annals of the South African Museum. 



longa, 3-6 mm. lata, linearia vel oblanceolato-linearia, apice 

 apiculata, basi angustata, glabra vel paullo villosa. Inflorescentia, 

 3, 0-5-1-4 cm. longa, O-7-l'l cm. lata; bracteae 3 mm. longae, 

 lanceolatae, apice obtusae, villosae. Perianthii tubus villosus. 

 Stylus 3 mm. longus, glaber ; stigma 0-75 mm. longum, clavatum 

 vel ellipticum. Inflorescentia, % , 1-2-2-3 cm. longa, 08-1-4 cm. 

 lata ; bracteae 3*5 mm. longae, 9 mm. latae, glabrae vel inferne 

 pubescentae. Perianthii segmenta villosa. Stylus 4-5 mm. 

 longus, linearis, superne ellipticus, apice obtusus ; stigma laterale ; 

 ovarium 1 mm. longum, trigonum, glabrum. Fructus 4 mm. 

 longus trigonus. 



Cape Division. — Near Wynberg, MacOwan in Herb. Norm. 

 Austro-Afric. 786 ; slopes of Miller's Point, Wolley-Docl 2924 ; 

 mountain slopes above Smithwinkel Bay, Phillips in Herb. Musei 

 Austro-Afric. 4297. 



A bush 3-4 feet bigb. Branches thinly to densely villous, some- 

 times almost glabrous. Leaves subequal in the sexes, those 

 surrounding the inflorescences not perceptibly longer than those on 

 the remainder of the shoot, and do not form a definite involucre 

 and are narrowed at the base, 2-5-4-5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad, 

 linear to oblanceolate-linear, produced into a long subulate apex, 

 narrowed at the base, quite glabrous or sometimes slightly villous 

 below and with hairy margins. Male inflorescence solitary and 

 terminal, scattered along the branches on short axillary shoots, 

 - 5-l"4 cm. long, 0-7-1-1 cm. in diameter, ovoid, cylindric or sub- 

 globose ; bracts 3 mm. long, lanceolate, obtuse, villous. Perianth 

 tube 1'5 mm. long, cylindric, villous ; lobes 3 mm. long, spathulate, 

 obtuse, and incurved at the apex, glabrous. Anthers 1*75 mm. 

 long, oblong. Style 3 mm. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 0-75 

 mm. long, clavate or ellipsoid, emarginate at the apex. Young 

 female inflorescence 1-2-2-3 cm. long, 0-8-1-4 cm. in diameter, ovoid 

 or ellipsoid, surrounded at the base by an involucre of 4-6 ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate obtuse sometimes acuminate glabrous ciliate bracts, 

 0-7-1 cm. long ; floral-bracts 3-5 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, trans- 

 versely linear-oblong, glabrous or slightly pubescent below. Perianth- 

 segments in young flowers 4-5 mm. long, spathulate-linear, rounded 

 at the apex, the lateral segments densely villous, the anterior and 

 posterior finely villous. Style 4-5 mm. long, linear, flattened and 

 broadly elliptic above, obtuse ; stigma lateral on the ventral face of 

 the broadened upper portion of the style ; ovary 1 mm. long, 

 trigonous, glabrous. Fruit 4 mm. long, trigonous, faintly pilose, 



