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narrowly cylindric in the lower half of the tube, suddenly widened in 

 the upper half; lobes linear-lanceolate, subacute, 4 mm. long. 

 Anthers exserted, 5 mm. long. Achenes narrow, 5 mm. long, thinly 

 pilose. Pappus 1 cm. long, straw-coloured. — Harv. in Harv. & Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. iii. 106. 



Distrib.- — Carnarvon ; Buff el's Bout, September, Burchell, 1603 ! 



41. P. flexicaulis, Linn. f. Suppl. 355. 



Branches terete, glabrous, internodes 0*5-1 cm. long. Leaves 

 opposite, connate and sheathing at the base for about 1 cm. long, 

 acicular, obtuse, often viscid, with recurved tips. 3-7 cm. long, about 

 1'5 mm. broad, subterete, with a groove on both sides, glabrous. 

 Heads usually 3 together at the apex of the shoot, shortly peduncu- 

 late, oblong-obovoid, 2-2*5 cm. long. Involucral bracts 5- 6-seriate, 

 gradually increasing in length upwards ; the outermost oblong- or 

 ovate-elliptic, about 4 mm. long, rounded at the apex ; the innermost 

 linear, subacute, up to 1*8 cm. long, all chaffy and straw-coloured, 

 glabrous. Receptacle flat, 4 5 mm. in diameter, honeycombed and 

 setose. Corolla ribbed, 1*5 cm. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, obtusely 

 acuminate, 2 mm. long. Anthers 5 mm. long. Achenes narrowly 

 obovoid, 4-5 mm. long, thinly villous and finely glandular. Pappus 

 up to about 7 mm. long, brownish straw-coloured. — Thunb. Fl. Cap. 

 ed. Schult, 629 ; DC. Prodr. v. 360 Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 iii. 102. P. connata, DC. Prodr. v. 360. 



Distrib, — Worcester; Witteberg Range, near Matjesfontein, Reh- 

 mann, 2922 ! Matjesfontein Railway Station, December, Galpin, 4117 1 

 Beyond the Hex River, Rehmann in Herb. Bolus, 5673 ! Hex River 

 Valley, G-roote Tafelberg, Rehmann, 2751 ! Gauritz River, December, 

 EcMon and Zeyher, 245 ! Oudtshoorn, Robinson Pass, Taylor in 

 Harb. Bolus, 10712! South Africa, without precise locality, Thorn, 

 230 ! 383 ! Masson ! Burtt Davy, 12662 ! 

 Var. minor, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxv. 325. 



Leaves less than 1 cm. long. Heads about 1*3 cm. long. 



Distrib. — Ceres ; in the Karroo at Verkerde Vlei, Rehmann, 2843 ! 



42. P. leucoclada, Turc. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxiv. 1851, ii. 65. 



A rigid shrub, 1-2 ft. high. Branches divaricate, covered with 

 white and smooth bark. Leaves scattered, alternate, sometimes tufted, 

 club-shaped, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 1-7 mm. long, fleshy, 

 glabrous. Heads about 20-fiowered, terminal, solitary at the end of 

 almost naked twigs, obconic, 1-1*5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. in diameter. 



