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portion. Achenes 3 mm. long, obovate-oblong, villous from the base. 

 Pappus reddish-brown, 1 cm. long. — Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 iii. 107. 



Distrib. — Without locality, EcJclon and Zeyher, 2481 ; Stormberg, 

 December, Sim ! 



Section II. PAPILLATAE. 



10. P. membranacea, Linn. f. Suppl. 357. 



Branches more or less quadrangular, glabrescent ; branchlets terete, 

 densely mealy-puberulous. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate or 

 slightly oblanceolate, acute, slightly narrowed to a broad base, 

 8-11 mm. long, about 3 mm. broad, rigidly chartaceous, distinctly 

 keeled below, not visibly nerved above, densely puberulous on both 

 surfaces. Heads solitary, terminal, sessile, turbinate, 25 cm. long, 

 1'5 cm. in diameter, about 13-flowered. Involucral bracts 6-seriate, 

 the outermost two opposite, ovate, cuspidate, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 broad, strongly keeled, with broad membranous hyaline margins, the 

 latter not extending to the apex, minutely puberulous on the outside ; 

 remainder of bracts with the hyaline margins continued to the apex, 

 the innermost series oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, about 

 l - 8 cm. long and 5 mm. broad, with a broad pointed green middle 

 portion and membranous slightly jagged hyaline margins which are 

 broadest near the apex. Receptacle flat, shortly and rigidly setose. 

 Corolla-tube 1 cm. long, cylindric, broader in the middle, with a sub- 

 campanulate limb, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, subobtuse, 2 mm. long. 

 Anthers 4*5 mm. long, linear, with an acute lanceolate apex. Achenes 

 35 mm. long, densely long-villous, contracted at the apex into a 

 distinct glabrous neck. Pappus yellowish-brown when dry, slightly 

 shorter than the corolla-tube, inserted on a distinct annulus. — 

 Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 633 ; DC. Prodr. v. 361 ; Harv. in Harv. 

 & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 104. 



Distrib. — Somerset and Caledon eastward to Uitenhage : 

 Somerset; Boschberg, MacOwan, 1961! between the Zuurberg 

 Range and Klein, Briuntjes Hoogte, 2000-5000 ft., October, Drege a ! 

 Caledon; Zondereinde River, November, Zeyher, 2773! George; 

 Karroogeger, Zeyher in Herb. Kew ! Zuurbergen, Bolus, 2324 ! 

 Robertson; Kochman's Kloof, November, 800-1200 ft., Mund, 140! 

 Oudtshoorn, near Cango, 2000 ft., December, Bolus, 11949 ! 

 Uitenhage ; on the hills by Port Elizabeth, February, Ecklon & 

 Zeyher, 407 ! Redhouse, Paterson in Herb. Albany Mus., 2157 ! 



