304 Annals of the South African Museum. 



long, 3-7 mm. broad, coriaceous, with finely scabrid- serrulate margins 

 resembling the edge of a very fine saw, otherwise glabrous, frequently 

 with 3 distinct parallel nerves from the base. Heads solitary, cjlindric 

 or cjlindric- obconic, 3 cm. long, about 15 cm. across the top. Invo- 

 lucral bracts about 7-seriate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, chaffy with 

 broad membranous margins, glabrous. Corolla 15 cm. long, ribbed 

 in the lower, a little expanded and slightly pubescent in the upper 

 half; lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 1"5 mm. long. A chenes villous. 

 Pappus straw-coloured, connate at the base into a ring. 15 cm. long. 



Distrib. — South Africa; without locality, Massonin Herb. Mus. Brit. ! 



A very fine species closely allied to P. adenocarpa, Harv., but 

 distinguished by its conspicuously puberulous branchlets, frequently 

 trinerved leaves with very finely and densely scabrid-ciliolate margins. 

 Unfortunately there is no record of the locality in which Masson 

 collected the specimen. Named in compliment to Mr. Spencer Moore, 

 of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 



27. P. hirsuta, Linn. f. Suppl. 356. 



A small much-branched shrub 1-1| ft. high ; branchlets terete, 

 rather densely setose-pilose. Leaves opposite, almost free from each 

 other at the base, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 0'7-l'4 cm. 

 long, up to 5 mm. broad, coriaceous, flat, distinctly 1 -nerved, promi- 

 nently setose-ciliate or pilose on the margin and often on the back 

 of the midrib. Heads 15-25-flowered, solitary, sessile, terminal, 

 cjlindric or campanulate, 2-3 cm. long, 1-1/5 cm. in diameter. Invo- 

 lucral bracts gradually changed from the foliage, 4-5-seriate, the 

 outermost strongly ciliate like the leaves, the innermost oblong or 

 linear- oblong, about 2 cm. long and 7 mm. broad, chaffy, glabrous, 

 with very narrowly membranous finely jagged margins. Receptacle 

 long-setose. Corolla 1/7 cm. long, narrowly cylindric and ribbed 

 towards th base, gradually widened upwards, glabrous ; lobes linear, 

 subacute, 3'5 mm. long. Anthers slightly exserted beyond the tips of 

 the corolla. Achenes flattened, 8 mm. long, appressed-villous. Pappus 

 brownish-yellow, 14 mm. long. — Thunb. El. Cap. ed. Schult. 631 ; 

 Harv. in Harv. & Sond. PI. Cap. iii. 103, inch var. vera, Harv. ; P. 

 retorta, Linn. f. Suppl. 356. P. uniflora, Poir. Encycl. v. 733. 



Distrib. — Malmesbury through the Coast Region to Mossel Bay : 

 Malmesbury ; between Eikenboom and Riebeek Kasteel, below 1000 ft., 

 October, Dri-ge b ! Tulbagk ; Winterhoek, November, Pappe ! near 

 Saron, October, Schlechter, 10617 ! Worcester; Breede River, Novem- 

 ber, EcMon and Zeyher, 48! Paarl ; Paarl Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., 



