308 Annals of the South African Museum. 



v. 359; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 101. P. microphylla,- 

 DC. Prodr. v. 359. 



Distrib. — Little Namaqualand to Worcester and through the 

 Karroo to Colesberg : 



Little Namaqualand ; Karoechas, [September, Schlechter, 11394 ; 

 Vanrhynsdorp ; Bushmanns Karoo, 3000-4000 ft., Drege d ; Cal- 

 vinia ; Blauwkrantz Pass, December, Pearson, 4976 ! Upper 

 Roggeveld above Blauwkrantz Pass, December, Pearson, 4973 ! Ceres ; 

 between Hottentot's Kloof and Karroo Poort, November, Pearson, 

 4808 ! Sutherland ; in the Roggeveld near Jackhal's Fontein, South 

 of Sunderland, August, Burchell, 1328 ! between Kuilenberg and Great 

 Riet River, August, Burchell, 1359 ! Laingsburg ; Matjesfontein, 

 October, MacOwan, 1883 ! Prince Albert ; Glover, 2639 ! Fraserburg ; 

 between Karree River and Klein Quaggas Fontein, near Fraserberg, 

 August, Burchell, 1410 2 ! 1425 ! Willowmore ; between the Zwart 

 Berg and Aasvogel Berg, 2000 ft., August, Dregs a ! Graaff Reinet ; 

 near Graaff Reinet, August, Bolus, 614 ! 669 ! Somerset ; Vogel 

 River, MacOwan, 1604! Murraysburg ; Tyson, 221; Worcester: 

 Hex River near De Dooms, Bolus, 13124 ! ; near Louw's Railway 

 Station, Bolus, 5970 ; Beaufort West : Nieuwveldt above Beaufort 

 West, Marloth, 4752 ! Richmond : On the flats at Ylakplaats, Bolus, 

 13781 ! Colesberg ; Shaiv ! South Africa, without locality, Masson ! 



32. P. mucronata, DC. Prodr. v. 362. 



A low, much-branched shrub 1-2 ft. high ; branchlets twiggy, short, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly connate at the base, linear, ericoid, 

 flat or concave above, rounded below, obtuse, 2-8 mm. long, nearly 

 1 mm. thick, with serrulate-ciliolate margins. Heads solitary, terminal, 

 cylindric, acute at the base, P5-2 cm. long, about 7 mm. in diameter, 

 Involucral bracts 6-7-seriate ; the outermost broadly ovate, about 

 3 mm. long ; the innermost oblong-linear, about 1 cm. long ; all 

 membranous and straw-coloured, with mucronate recurved tips, 

 glabrous except the jagged ciliate margins. Receptacle flat, honey- 

 combed. Corolla 1 cm. long, spai'ingly glandular; lobes lanceolate, 

 subobtuse, 1*75 mm. long. Anthers 4 mm. long, acute. Achenes 4 mm. 

 long, densely villous. Pappus 1 cm. long, bright yellow. — Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 106. P. Dlnteri, S. Moore in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. Ser. II. iv. 1012. 



Distkib. — Hereroland ; South border of the Etosa depression, Pinter, 

 739! Bushmanland ; Bitterfontein, April, Zeyher, 817 ! about 8 miles 

 from Bitterfontein, Pearson, 3419 ! Graaff Rein t; in the plains near 



