316 Annaln of the South African Museum, 



hyaline margins, glabrous, remaining bracts gradually larger ; the 

 innermost series narrowly elongate-oblong, strongly keeled, with the 

 keel produced at the apex beyond the broadly membranous slightly 

 jagged margins, about 1*5 cm. long and 4 mm. broad, glabrous. 

 Receptacle flat, slightly jagged, about 3 mm. in diameter. Corolla 

 tube 8 mm. long, glabrous, strongly 5-ribbed for 2"5 mm. long at the 

 base, the remaining upper portion cylindric ; lobes linear lanceolate, 

 subacute, 2 mm. long, with reddish-brown margins when dry. Anthers 

 4 - 5 mm. long, acute. Achenes 4 mm. long, long-villous with ascending 

 hairs, contracted at the top into a short glabrous neck. Pappus 

 reddish brown when dry, 1*3 cm. long, inserted on a distinct annulus. 

 — Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 633 ; DC. Prodr. v. 361 ; Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 104. 



Distrib. — Bushmanland ; near Nieuwfontein, December, Pearson, 

 3409 ! Little Nauiaqualand ; Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 2000 ft., 

 September-October, Drege ! South Africa, without precise locality, 

 Paterson in Herb. Forsyth ! 



45. P. aspalatha, DC. Prodr. v. 356. 



A weak shrub ; branches divaricate, leafy, slender, sulcate, 

 reddish-brown, slightly puberulous towards the apex, glabrous 

 below. Leaves alternate, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 05-P5 cm. long, 

 P5-2 mm. long, thick and coriaceous, glabrous, entire or rarely with 

 a single lateral tooth on each margin. Heads solitary at the end 

 of the shoots, subcampanulate, about 1*5 cm. long and as much in 

 diameter. In volucral bracts 3-4-seriate ; the outermost oblong-linear, 

 subacute, 3 mm. long ; the innermost oblong-lanceolate, acutely 

 acuminate, 7 mm. long, membranous, slightly puberulous outside. 

 Receptacle convex, about 4'5 mm. in diameter, honeycombed. Corolla 

 7 mm. long, cylindric and puberulous below, slightly widened in the 

 upper third ; lobes - 8 mm. long, triangular, obtuse. Anthers 2 mm. 

 long, much exserted, subobtuse. Achenes slightly oblicpuely oblong, 

 appressed- villous, 3*5 mm. long. Pappus about 8 mm. long, slightly 

 exceeding the corolla, yellowish-white. — Harv. in. Harv. & Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. iii. 98. 



Distrib. — Fraserburg ; between the Karree Eiver and Klein Quarts 

 Fontein, near Fraserburg, August, Bnrchell, 1427 



46. P. glaucescens, DC. Prodr. v. 357. 



A small shrub with rather straggly elongated branchlets ; branchlets 

 with light-coloured bark, slightly pubescent when young. Leaves 



