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Corolla-tube gradually widened upwards, 8 mm. long, glabrous; lobes 

 lanceolate, subacute, 25-3 mm. long. Anthers slightly exserted. 

 Achenes obovate, 3"5 mm. long, long-pilose with rather stiff hairs from 

 near the base. Pappus 1 cm. long, reddish -brown when dry. — Harv. 

 in Harv. & Sond. PI. Cap. iii. 108. 



Distrib. — Vanrhynsdorp ; on dry stone hills near Ebenezer, below 

 500 ft., November, Drege ! Zout River, 600 m., July, Schlechter, 

 8148! Clanwilliam ; Kareebergen, 800 ft., August, Schlechter, 8167, 

 partly ! (This specimen was mixed with Senecio in Herb. Bolus.) 



35. P. fasciculata, Linn. f. Suppl. 357. 



A bush 1-2 ft. high ; branches ascending, opposite or whorled, 

 stout, subspinulose with the closely-arranged old persistent leaf-bases, 

 glabrous. Leaves crowded, closely imbricate, opposite, lanceolate- 

 linear, acutely acuminate, 2-4 cm. long, H— 5 mm. broad, narrowly 

 keeled below, flat and with a slightly impressed midrib above, rigidly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes minutely scabrid on the margins, often 

 viscid. Heads 1-fl.owered, crowded into a dense capitate cluster 

 2-4 cm. in diameter at the ends of the branches, narrow, compressed, 

 about 18 cm. long and 3 mm. in diameter. Involucral bracts about 

 6-seriate, the outermost lanceolate, about 5 mm. long, keeled, the 

 innermost linear, l - 5 cm. long, all acute, scaly-membranous, glabrous. 

 Receptacle very small. Corolla 1 cm. long, ribbed near the base, 

 glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2 mm. long. Anthers 4 mm 

 long, acute. Achenes 4 mm. long, shortly and densely villous with 

 soft white hairs, glandular. PajJpus about 9 mm. long, whitish. — 

 DC. Prodr. v. 360 ; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 75 ; Harv. 

 in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 103. 



Distrib. — Clanwilliam to Robertson and Prince Albert : 

 Clanwilliam ; near Ezels Bank, Ceder Bergen, 4000-5000 ft., 

 December, Drege ! Worcester; Hex River Valley, Rehmann, 2752! 

 January, 2500 ft., Bolus, 5199! Brand Vlei, 1000 ft., January, 

 Schlechter, 9928 ! Robertson ; Karroo, near Kogmans Kloof, Novem- 

 ber, 1000-1400 ft., Mund, 138! Prince Albert; Zwart Bergen, 

 December, Bolus, 11520 ! South Africa ; without precise locality, 

 Thorn, 458 ! Ecklon and Zeyher, 141 ! 243 ! Masson 



36. P. uncinata, DC. Prodr. v. 357. 



A shrub. Branches glabrous, sulcate, with brown bark. Leaves 

 opposite or 3 in a whorl, acicular, acute, about 1 cm. long, furrowed 

 above, convex beneath, with hooked recurved apices, free from each 



