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bury, 231! TTitenhage ; ou Vanstadensberg, near to Galgebosch, 

 February, Burchell, 4721 ! Plains of Uitenhage, Bowie ! Without 

 precise locality, Cooper, 1509 ! Port Elizabeth ; Algoa Bay, Forbes ! 

 Cooper, 2615 ! Kennedy, 321 ! Galpin, 6356 ! Near Port Elizabeth, 

 PPestf, 255 ! Albany, Alexander Near Grahamstown, Bolton ! Bolus, 

 1630 ! MacOwan, 148 ! Schlechter, 2650 ! Ifira £«wfcer ! Assaga- 

 bosch, Zeyher, 914! Soutars Post, near Tea Fontein, Burchell, 3494! 

 South Africa; without precise locality, Zeyher, 2770! Mnnd and 

 Ma ire I Hooker ! EcJelon and Zeyher, 254 ! 255! Masson. 



38. P. paniculata, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 143. 



A scrubby bush; branches glabrous; internodes 15 mm. long. 

 Leaves opposite, connate and encircling the branch let for about 5 mm. 

 at the base, linear, with recurved subobtuse apices, very slightly 

 concave and distinctly 1-nerved on the upper surface, very convex on 

 the lower surface, 1*5-2 cm. long, 15-2 mm. broad, fleshy, glabrous 

 and usually more or less viscid. Heads crowded and several at the 

 apex of each branchlet, very narrowly turbinate, obtuse in the bud 

 stage, 1 cm. long, 3 mm. in diameter in the middle, 1-4-flowered. 

 Involucral bracts 4-seriate ; the outermost ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2 - 5 mm. 

 long, about 125 mm. broad, rigidly paleaceous, with a very narrow 

 minutely jagged hyaline margin ; the innermost series oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, 8 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, with rather narrow hyaline margins. 

 Receptacle about 1'25 mm. in diameter. Corolla ribbed, 5 mm. long, 

 glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 15 mm. long. Anthers not 

 exserted beyond the tips of the corolla-lobes. Achenes 2'5 mm. long, 

 contracted at the top, long-villous. Pappus white, a little shorter 

 than the corolla. — 'Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 629 ; Harv. in Harv. & 

 Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 102. P. flexicaulis, DC. Prodr. v. 360, not of Linn, 

 f. ; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 71, 109, 214. 



Distrib. — Little Namaqualand to Worcester, eastward to Albany : 

 Little Namaqualand ; Wyley ! Spektakel, Morris ! Ookiep, Scully, 

 in Herb. Norm. Austro.-Afric, 256 ! 1166 ! Modderfontein, Whitehead ! 

 Vanrhynsdorp ; Ebenezer, on dry stony heights, below 500 ft., 

 November, Drege ! Calvinia ; Moedverloven, on stony dry heights, 

 1500-2000 ft., December, Dri'ge ! Ceres ; between Karroo Poort and 

 Zoutpansdrift, November, Pearson, 5017! Worcester; Touw's River 

 Railway Station, December, Bolus, 5198! 1046 ! Worcester, Behmann, 

 2625 ! Matjesfontein, Marloth, 703 ! Brand Vlei, January, Schlechter, 

 9937 partly ! Swellendam ; December, Pappe ! MacOwan, 3263 ; 

 Oudtshoorn ; Robinson Pass, January, Bolus, 1629 ! Somerset ; 

 Bruintjeshoojte, MacOwan, 449 ! Uitenhage ; Zwartkops River, 



