296 Annals of the South African Museum. 



August, Drrge a! Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 2000-3000 ft., 

 September, October, Drege b ! 



17. P. diva r i rata, Less. Syn. Comp. 196. 



A scrubby bush 4-8 ft. high ; branchlets opposite, finely puberulous. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, obovate-elliptic or sometimes nearly 

 orbicular, narrowed at the base, 2-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, trinerved 

 from the base, subcoriaceous, flat, finely scabrid-puberulous on both 

 surfaces and on the margin. Heads corymbose, several at the end of each 

 branchlet, pedunculate, about 5 -flowered, turbinate, about 15 cm. long ; 

 peduncles up to 1*5 cm. long, slender, densely puberulous. Involucraf 

 bracts 4-5-seriate ; the outermost broadly ovate, about 2 - 5 mm. long ; 

 the innermost linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute. 8 mm. long; all 

 membranous and often bright green when dry, glabrous. Receptacle 

 small. Corolla 1—1*2 cm. long, gradually widened upwards, ribbed and 

 pubescent below the middle ; lobes linear- lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. long. 

 Anthers exserted. Achenes 5 mm. long, sparingly pubescent, glandular. 

 Pappus 0-8-1 cm. long, nearly white or reddish-white. — DC. Prodr. 

 v. 357 ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 99. 



Distrib. — Great Namaqualand to the Cape Div. : 



Great Namaqualand : Kubub, March, Schinz, 6971 Khamiesberg ; 

 above Twee Rivieren, September, Pearson, 6764 ! Little Namaqualand ; 

 Spektakel, 1200 ft., September, Bolus, in Herb. Norm. Austro-Afric, 

 398 ! near Ookiep, November, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5669 ! Rietfontein, 

 2500 ft., Pearson, 3770! Calvinia; Blaukrantz Pass, December, 

 Pearson, 4958! Bushmanland ; Kopjes, Nieuwfontein, Pearson, 3469! 

 Clanwilliam; Clanwilliam, Mader, 2178! Ram's Kop, Leipoldt, 88! 

 Lambert's Bay, August, Schlechter, 8542 ! Blauwberg, Zeyher, 818 ! 

 near Oliphant's River, Pappe ! Koeberg, Pappe ! Piquetberg ; near 

 Goedverwacht, Bolus, 13565 ! Malmesbury ; Riebeck's Castle, below 

 1000 ft., November, Drrge a! Saldhana Bay, Bolus, 12703! Cape; 

 plains near Cape Town, Niven, 22 ! South Africa ; without precise 

 locality, Zeyher, 139 ! 244! Massonl Pearson, 3404! 5020! 



Section III. CILIATAE. 



18. P. camphorata, Linn. Sp. PL ed. II. 1176. 



A shrub 1-3 ft. high ; branches pale, scabrid with small hook-like 

 short setae. Leaves tufted, or if scattered then alternate, acicular, 

 acute, g'abrous except for a row of short white teeth on each in- 

 folded margin, 1-1.3 cm. long, about 1 mm. thick, much shorter than 



