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slightly connate at the base, spathulate-linear, obtuse, 4-10 mm. long 

 2-2-5 mm. broad, coriaceous, canous-pubescent or tomentose. Heads 

 terminal, solitary, turbinate-campanulate, 2-2-3 cm. long, about 1 cm. 

 across the top. Involucral bracts about 8-seriate, the outermost 

 triangular-ovate, about 5 mm. long, the innermost oblong-lanceo- 

 late, about T3 cm. long, all chaffy-membranous, with a distinct 

 midrib and woolly-pubescent more or less all over the upper half 

 outside, margins membranous and jagged. Receptacle pitted. 

 Corolla 1-1 cm. long ; tube ribbed in the lower part, glabrous ; lobes 

 lanceolate, 15 mm. long. Achenes 4-5 mm. long, densely appressed- 

 silky- villous. Pappus straw-coloured, 1 cm. long. — Thunb. Fl. Cap., 

 ed. Schult. 632 ; DC. Prodr. v, 358 ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond- 

 Fl. Cap. iii. 100. P. canescens, DC. Prodr. v. 358 ; Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 70. 



Distrib. — Little Namaqualand ; Kiet Kloof, near Bowesdorp, Sep- 

 tember, Schlechter, 1\194>\ Clanwilliam ; near Wupperthal, 1900 ft.. 

 October, Bolus, 9014 ! near Pakhuis, October, Leipoldtl Krakadouw. 

 Leipoldt, 502 ! Calvinia ; Uien Vallei, Bokkveld Mts., 2000-2500 ft., 

 December, Drege b! South Africa; without precise locality, Thun- 

 berg ! 



7. P. ovalifolia, DC. Prodr. v, 361. 



A slender shrub; branchlets opposite, scantily woolly-pubescent, 

 becoming glabrous with age. Leaves opposite, often with buds in 

 their axils, tree from each other and broad at the base, ovate 

 or oblong-ovate, obtuse, white woolly-tomentose. Heads 13-18- 

 rlowered, sessile, solitary, narrowly campanulate, 2-3 cm. long, P8-2 

 em. in diameter. Receptacle flat, honeycombed, not fimbriated. 

 Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate, closely imbricate, ovate, obtuse, woolly- 

 tomentose in the upper part outside, with narrowly membranous and 

 slightly fimbriated margins. Corolla P8 cm. long, tubular, gradually 

 widened above; lobes 4 mm. long, lancolate-linear, subobtuse. 

 Stamens inserted about half way down the tube; filaments 35 mm. 

 long, filiform ; anthers 55 mm. long, linear, lanceolate and acute at 

 the apex. Style 17 cm. long, terete; style-branches 4'5 mm. long, 

 papillose above. Achenes 35 mm. long, oblong, villous. Pappus 

 about P5 cm. long, straw-coloured. —Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Docum. 107, 214 ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 104. 

 Distrib. — Little Namaqualand, Vanrhynsdorp and Calvinia: 

 Little Namaqualand, Scully, 205 ! 229 ! Vanrhynsdorp ; Ebenezer, 

 November, Drege ! Oliphant's River, November-December, Pappe ! 

 Calvinia ; Kamos, February. EcMon ! Piquetberg, foot of mountains 



