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infra glaber; segmenta 2-25 mm. longa, linearia, villosa ; limbus 

 1-75 mm. longus, ellipticus, apice obtusus, villosus. Antherae 

 •75 mm. longae, ellipticae. Squamae hypogynae 1 mm. longae, 

 lineares. Fr actus 4 mm. longus, 3 mm. latus, subglobosus, villosus ; 

 stylus 7-5 mm. longus, teres, supra angustatus ; stigma "5 mm. 

 longum, conicum. 



Cape Pkovince : Stellenbosch Division. Hottentots Holland 

 Mountains, south of Sneeuw Kop, 4,500 ft., January, 1915. H. W. 

 Begley in Herb. Musei Austro-Afric. 7649. 



A small bush about - 6 m. high ? Branches arising in whorls of 

 5-7, scantily pilose ; bark light reddish-brown. Leaves acicular, 

 P5-3 - 5 cm. long, terete, acutely mucronate, finely pilose, the older 

 leaves almost glabrous. Inflorescence a one-flowered capitulum ; 

 the capitula massed into a terminal solitary sessile spike 2-5 cm. 

 long and about 2 cm. broad, surrounded by the upper leaves. 

 Bracts subtending the capitulum -9-1 cm. long, linear, acuminate, 

 acute, concave above, convex beneath, scantily pilose, ciliated. 

 Capitulum subsessile, one-flowered; peduncle about 1 mm. long, 

 pilose ; involucre of 4 bracts, bilabiate; the upper lip entire, 8 mm. 

 long, otherwise similar to the bract ; lower lip tri-partite to about 

 the middle, curved, deeply concave in the lower half ; lobes 5 mm. 

 long, otherwise similar to the bract. Perianth-tube 3-5 mm. long, 

 glabrous below; segments 5 mm. long, with a linear villous 

 claw and an elliptic obtuse villous limb, the latter P75 mm. long. 

 Anthers "75 mm. long, elliptic. Hypogynous scales 1 mm. long, 

 linear. Fruit 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, subglobose, shortly villous ; 

 style 75 mm. long, terete, slender, gradually narrowing upwards, 

 breaking away near the base and leaving a short beak on the fruit ; 

 stigma -5 mm. long, conical. 



This handsome shrub has very much the general appearance of a 

 Serruria. It is totally distinct from any other species in the genus 

 by having one-flowered capitula, which are massed into a contracted 

 spike and surrounded by the upper leaves. 



I have named the plant in honour of Mr. H. W. Begley of 

 Somerset West, a Member of the Mountain Club of South Africa 

 and a keen naturalist, who discovered the species. 



X ice uia Marlothii, Phillips, sp. nov. (Proteaceae-Proteeae), a N. 

 Dregeo, Buek., foliis latioribus differt. 



Rami minute pubescentes. Folia 2-3 cm. longa, 3"5-9 mm. lata, 

 lanceolato-elliptica, apice obtusa, basi angustata, glabra vel junioria 



