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Pappe ! without precise locality, Zeyher, 144 ! Sutherland ; Klein 

 Roggeveld, Burchell, 1296! Laingsburg : Seven Weeks Poort on 

 Great Zwartbergen, Phillips, 1389! Worcester; Hex River Valley, 

 October, Tyson, 689 ! Bolus, 8014! Caledon, Mund, 33 ! Swellen- 

 dam ; Ecklon & Zeyher, 89, 9! Zeyher I Breede River, Pappel 

 Riversdale ; near Heidelberg, October, Galpin, 4114! Mossel Bay; 

 Attaquas Kloof, Gill ! near Oudtshoorn, Bolus, 1 1952 ! Port Elizabeth, 

 Mrs. Paterson, 161 ! Uitenhage ; Zwartkops River, September, Zeyher, 

 256! 2505! 2507! 2771! Despatch, near Uitenhage, I. L. Drege, 274! 

 6 miles west of Uitenhage, Bolus, 1628! Albany; Hounslow 

 Farm, near Grahamstown, August, September, Galpin, 159 ! near 

 Grahamstown, October, Daly & Sloe, 302 ! MacOwan, 3250 ! in 

 the Karroo near Bothasberg, MacOivan, 814! near Albany, Bowkerl 

 Williamson] Jansenville ; near Loot's Kloof, Leonard, 814! Mur- 

 ray sburg, September, Tyson, 204 ! Peddie ; Lime Drift, Sim, 2559 ! 

 South Africa; without precise locality, Thunbergl Nivenl Mund & 

 Maire ! Grey ! Verreaux \ 



4. P. Bolnsii. Phillips, n. sp. 



Frutex. Rami cano-pubescentes. Folia opposita, basi contigua 

 non connata, lineari-lanceolata, apice subobtusa, subtus carinata, 

 05-1 cm. longa, 2-3 mm. lata, ci-assa coriaceaque, utrinque molliter cano- 

 tomentella. Capitula 5-flora, solitaria, terminalia, cylindrica, 1*5 cm. 

 longa, circa 5 mm. lata. Bracteae involucri 4-5-seriatae, imbricatae ; 

 extimae late ovato-triangularae, apice subacutae, 3-4 mm. longae ; 

 intimae ovato-lanceolata, circa 8 mm. longae, 5 mm. latae, paullo 

 canescentes, breviter ciliatae. Receptaculum parvum, fimbriatum. 

 Corolla 1 cm. longa, apicem versus sensim ampliata, costata, glabra ; 

 lobi lanceolati, 3 mm. longi. Achenia 5 mm. longa, infra serieeo- 

 villosa. Pappus circiter 9 mm. longus, brunneo-fuscus. 



A straggly shrub ; branches sparingly canous-pubescent, with 

 longitudinally splitting bark. Leaves opposite, contiguous but not 

 connate at the base, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, keeled, 0'5-l cm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. broad, thick and coriaceous, softly and shortly canous- 

 tomentellous on both surfaces. Heads 5-flowered, solitary, terminal ing 

 short leafy branchlets, cvlindric, l - 5 cm. long, about 5 mm. in 

 diameter across the middle. Involucral bracts 4-5-seriate, closely 

 imbricate, the outermost broadly ovate-triangular, subacute, 3-4 mm. 

 long, the innermost ovate-lanceolate, about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. 

 broad, all with a distinct midrib and a broad band of short canons 

 indumentum up the middle, the outer and intermediate ones shortly 

 ciliate. Receptacle small, fimbriate. Corolla 1 cm. long, gradually 



