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cylindric 2 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, about 12-flowered. 



Involucral bracts gradually differentiated from the upper leaves, about 

 6-seriate yellow when drv, the outermost oblong-oblanceolate, about 

 6 mm long and 3 mm. broad, finely puberulous down the middle 

 outside, the intermediate ones oblong, 12 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, the 

 innermost linear-oblong, 1-8 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, all scaly mem- 

 branous and glabrous. Receptacle 35 mm. in diameter, deeply 

 honeycombed Corolla-tube 8 mm. long, gradually widened upwards, 

 glabrous; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2 mm. long. Anthers 4"5 mm. 

 long. Achenes 6 mm. long, densely glandular and shortly setose 

 with scattered hairs. Pappus straw-coloured, 1 cm. long.— Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. hi. 100. P. gymnoclme, E. Mey. m Drcge, 

 Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 94, 214, not of DC. P. lucilioides, var. 

 sparsifolia, Harv, I.e. P. bromoides, S. Moore in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 



Ser. II. iv. 1011. . 



Distrib —Great Namaqualand to Great Bushmanland : Great 

 Namaqualand ; without precise locality, Wyley ! Chamis, September, 

 von Trotha, 1476! Jakalskopje, Dinter, 1197! Great Karasberg, 

 Pearson 7917! near Aus, Marloth, 5060! Little Namaqualand ; 

 near the mouth of the Orange River, hills below 600 ft,, October, 

 Brege ' TcAlee Mountains, common on lower middle slopes, January, 

 Pearson, 6150 ! between Steinkopf and the Orange River, October, 

 Phillips, 1598 ! Great Bushmanland ; Wortel, June, Max Schlechter, 

 110 



14. P. scabra, Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. hi. 109. 



Branches slender, roughly scabrid. Leaves alternate or subopposite, 

 linear, obtuse, 1-5-2-5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, coriaceous, with a, 

 thick prominent midrib on the lower surface, coarsely scabrid-papillous 

 all over ' Heads terminal, solitary, sessile, narrowly campanulate or 

 subobconical, 2-5-3 cm. long, about 1-6 cm. in diameter, many-flowered. 

 Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate, lanceolate, obtuse, the outer ones reaching 

 nearly up to the middle of the head, 1-nerved, very finely scabrid- 

 pubenilous outside. Receptacle small and convex. Corolla-tubeV2 mm. 

 long, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes narrow y lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, 4 mm. long, glabrous. Achenes 5 mm. long, villous with 

 lone silky subappressed white hairs. Pappus light yellow when dry, 



L ' 5 Di^TKiB.-Caledon ; Houwhoek, Zeyher ; 1000 ft., December, Bolus 

 6942 ! Bredasdorp ; near Elim, 300 ft., December, Schlechter in Herb. 

 Bolus, 8547 ! 



