306 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Swellendam ; between Swellendam and Breede River, January, 

 Burchell, 7442 b ! Riversdale ; Albertina, Muir, 884! Humansdorp, 

 Kennedy ! Uitenlmge; between Coega River and Sunday River, 

 on chalk flats below 1000 ft., December, Dregel Sunday River, 

 Zeyher, 242 ! Port Elizabeth, November, Kennedy, 215 ! Kemsley in 

 Herb. Albany Mus., 1087 ! South Africa : without precise locality, 

 Thuriberg] Verreauxl Mund 



Compared with the type specimen in Thunberg's Herbarium. 



29. P. staehelinoides, DC. Prodr. v. 364. 



A rigid, scrubby bush ; branches pubescent with very short rigid 

 reflexed white hairs, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves opposite, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, P3-2 cm. long, free at the base, flat 

 or concave above, keeled beneath, rigidly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. 

 Heads about 28-fiowered, sessile, terminal, solitary, cylindric-campanu- 

 late, 2 - 5-3 cm. long, about 2 cm. in diameter. Involucral bracts 

 7-serinte, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacute or subobtuse, very 

 minutely puberulous outside, with membranous margins. Corolla 

 1*5 cm. long, ribbed, gradually widened upwards, glabrous ; lobes 

 lanceolate, subacute, f— 1 in. long. Anthers slightly exserted. Achenes 

 4 mm. long, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs at the base and a few 

 very small glands. Pappus P5 cm. long, dull white. — Harv. in Harv. 

 & Sond. PI. Cap. iii. 109 



Disteib. — George, Prince Albert, and Fraserburg, eastward to 

 Albany and G-raaf Reinet : 



George; Gauritz River, EcMon and, Zeyher, 250! Uitenhage ; 

 Cradoek, Pappel Koegakamma Kloef, Eclrton and Zeyher, 2775! 

 Port Elizabeth ; Red House, West, 105 ! Albany ; Niemands 

 Kraal, June, MacOwan. 1159! Prince Albert; Great Zwarte Berg- 

 Range, on stony hills 3000-4000 ft., July, Drege a! Near Prince 

 Albert, 260(> ft., Decern her, Bolus, 11948 ! Mountain slopes, June- 

 July, Glover, 2687 ! Fraserburg ; between Karree River and Klein 

 Quaggas Fontein, August, Burchell, 1428 ! Graaff Reinet ; Ecklon 

 and Zeyher, 147 '! In stony and rocky mountain places, 3000-4000 it., 

 August, Drege b ; May, Burchell, 2921 ! Stony hillsides, Bruintjes, 

 Hoogte, near the Hotel, c. 3200 ft., September, MacOwan, 1953! 

 South Africa, without precise locality, Mund and Maire ! Harvey ! 



30. P. viscosa, Thunb. Prod. Fl. Cap. 144. 



A shrublet 1-2 ft. high ; branchlets covered with greyish-white 

 glabrous bark. Leaves opposite, contiguous but only slightly connate 



