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late or obovate-elliptic, acute or subacute, narrowed to aud slightly 

 connate at the base, 1-13 cm. long, 05-1 cm. broad, punctate on both 

 surfaces with shortly setulose-ciliate margins. Heads terminal, solitary, 

 obconic, about 3 cm. long and 15 cm. in diameter. Involucral bracts 

 5-6-seriate ; the outer ones broadly ovate ; the innermost oblanceolate, 

 rounded or truncate at the apex, glabrous, with membranous and 

 sometimes slightly jagged margins. Receptacle small. Corolla-tube 

 IS cm. long, cylindric, glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 3"5 mm. 

 long. Anthers 6 mm. long, acute. Achenes 7 mm. long, rather densely 

 covered with subsessile golden glands and rarely with a few long hairs. 

 Pappus bent near the base, l - 5 cm. long, brownish when dry. — P. 

 viscosa DC. Prodr. v. 364, not of Thunb. 



Distrib. — From Worcester north to Victoria West, and east to 

 Albany : 



Worcester ; near Worcester, November, Pappe ! Tulbagh ; 

 Winterhoek, EcMon and Zeyherl Sutherland; Great Riet River, 

 August, Burchell, 1382! near Sutherland, August, Burchell, 1333; 

 Fraserburg ; between Karree River and Klein Quaggas Fontein, 

 August, Burchell, 1409 ! Beaufort West; Courland's Kloof, Nelspoort, 

 July, Pearson, 1471 ! 1485! Victoria West ; on the hills near Victoria 

 West, Shaw, 1241 ! Graaff Reinet ; near Graaff Reinet, June, Bolus, 

 513 ! 3500 ft,, December, F. Bolus in Herb. Bolus, 11950 ! Murrays- 

 burg ; near the way to the " Cave," June, Tyson, 215 ! Willowmore ; 

 between Great Zwartbergen and Aasvogel Berg, 2000 ft., August, 

 Drege a! Somerset; Zwartruggens, MacOwah, 1960! Albany, 

 Bowker ! 



26. P. Mooreiana, Hutchinson, n. sp. 



Rami crassi ; ramuli tenuiter puberuli. Folia plana, opposita, 

 oblongo-elliptica vel oblongo-oblanceolata, apice obtusa, basi paullo 

 cuneata, 1— 1*5 cm. longa, 3-7 mm. lata, coriacea, marginibus 

 scabrido-serrulatis, aliter glabra, frequenter a basi 3-nervis distinctis 

 aequidistantibus. Capitula solitaria, cylindrica vel cyliudrico-obconica, 

 3 cm. longa, circa supra 1'5 cm. lata. Bracteae involucri circa 7- 

 seriatae, ovatae ad oblongo-lanceolatae, marginibus membranaceis. 

 glabrae. Corolla 1*5 cm. longa, inferne costata, superne paullo dilatata 

 pubescentia ; lobi linearidanceolati, apice obtusi, 1*5 mm. longi. 

 Ackaenia villosa. Pappus pallidus, basi connatus, l - 5 cm. longus. 



Branches stout, blackish when dry ; young branchlets finely and 

 closely puberulous. Leaves flat, opposite, oblong-elliptic or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, verv slightly connate at the base, 1-1*5 cm. 



