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tufted, or when scattered alternate, linear or subspathulate-linear, 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed to the base, - 5-l'5 cm long, 1-2 mm. 

 broad, fleshy, glabrous, nerveless. Head* few, solitary, terminal, 

 subcampanulate, about 1*4 cm. long, 1 cm. in diam. Involucral bracts 

 4-sei'iate ; the outermost linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, about 

 2 mm. long; the innermost linear, subobtuse, about 8 mm. long and 

 1*75 mm. broad, scaly membranous, shortly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. 

 Receptacle convex, 2 - 5 mm. in diameter, reticulate. Corolla 6 mm. 

 long ; tube gradually widened upwards, slightly angular, glabrous ; 

 lobes triangular, scarcely 1 mm. long. Achenes narrow, 4 mm. long, 

 shortly villous. Pappus 5 mm. long, yellowish white. — Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 98. 



Distrib. — Victoria West ; Nieuwveld, between Brak Eiver and 

 Uitvlugh, 3000-4000 ft., December, Drhje, a ! and b ! Near Fraser- 

 burg, Bolus, 1031 ! Middelburg : near Middelburg Road Railway 

 Station, Flanagan, 1388 ! Graaff Reinet; near Graaff Reinet, March, 

 Bolus, 1822 ! 



47. P. ciliata, Thunb. Prodr. 144. 



A scrubby bush up to 4 ft. high, branchlets short, terete, slightly 

 puberulous. Leaves alternate, linear, obtuse, 2-7 mm. long, concave 

 and with a prominent midrib above, keeled below, thick and fleshy, 

 glabrous. Heads terminal, solitary, more or less narrowly oblong- 

 ellipsoid, contracted at the top, 1*5-2 cm. long, 6-7 mm. in diameter. 

 Involucral bracts closely pressed together, 7-10-seriate, densely ciliate ; 

 the outer ovate and gradually passing into the leaves ; the innermost 

 linear, about 12 cm. long; all obtuse and rigidly scaly, with a faint 

 but distinct midrib on the back, yellow or yellowish green. Receptacle 

 deeply concave, 5 mm. in diameter, fimbriate-honeycombed. Corolla 

 about 1 cm. long, glabrous ; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. 

 long, green ? Achenes 3 mm. long, densely silky-villous. Pappus 

 5 mm. long, brownish-yellow. — Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 632; DC. 

 Prodr. v. 359; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 102. P. turbinata, 

 DC. I.e. 362; Harv. I.e. 106. P. ciliata, vars. Thunbergii and EcJclonis, 

 Harv. I.e. 102. 



Distrib. — Bushmanland and Little Kamaqualand to Clanwilliam : 

 Little Namaqualand ; Steinkopf, Schlechter, 43 ! Specktakel, Morris 

 in Herb. Bolus, 5674! ; between Steinkopf and the Orange River, October, 

 Phillips, 1596 ! between Kook Fontein and Holgat River, 1000 - 

 2000 ft., September-October, Dregel O'okiep, Scully in Herb. Norm. 

 Austro-Afric, 1167! near Nieuwfontein, December, Pearson, 3350! 



