A revision of the genus Pteronia (Compositae). 319 



January, MacOwan, 1072! Port Elizabeth; between Krakakamma 

 and the upper part of Leadmine River, February. Burchell, 4577 1 

 Albany ; tops of mountains at Howison's Poort, 23u0 ft., MacOwan ! 



49. P. Bangei, Muschler in Engler. Jahrb. xlvi. 96. 



A shrub 2 ft. high ; branch lets whitish, glabrous. Leaves crowded, 

 probably alternate, subterete, obtuse, about 1 cm. long' and P25 mm. 

 thick-, strongly warted when dry, otherwise glabrous. Heads solitary, 

 terminal subeampanulate, 1"4 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. across the top, 

 Involucral bracts 5-seriate ; the outer mostly oblong -lanceolate ; the 

 innermost linear-lanceolate, 1 cm. long; all with recurved apices, and 

 with a thick glandular midrib, glabrous. Corolla yellow, 8 mm. long ; 

 tube pubescent, strongly ribbed in the lower two-thirds, contracted at 

 the apex ; lobes linear-lanceolate, subacute, 15 mm. long. Achenes 

 oblong, appressed- villous, 3 mm. long. Pappus white, 8 mm. Long. 



Distrib.— Great Namaqualand ; Tafelberg, October, 4800 ft., Range,. 

 a 26! 



50. P. ten ni folia, DC. Prodr. v. 363 



Stem, simple or subsimple, arising from a rhizome, up to 1 ft. high, 

 slender, angular, glabrous, straw-coloured when dry. Leaves opposite, 

 free and articulating at the base, acicular, acute or subacute, 2-35 cm. 

 long, about 1 mm. thick, warted, otherwise glabrous, the warts giving 

 a crenulate appearance to the surface. Heads solitary, terminal. 

 pedunculate, or subsessile, oblong-ellipsoid, 2-2-5 cm. long, scarcely 

 2 cm. in diameter across the top of the flowers. Involucral 

 bracts about 6-seriate, gradually increasing upwards; the outer- 

 most ovate-oblong, about 4 mm. long and 2"5 mm. broad; the inner- 

 most broadly linear, 1'5 cm. long and about 5 mm. broad ; all rounded 

 at the apex, coriaceous, with a broad fleshy keel on the back towards 

 the apex, very narrowly membranous and finely serrulate on the margin, 

 glabrous. Receptacle flat, honeycombed, not fimbriate. Corolla 

 1-3 cm. long, glabrous: lobes linear, acute, 5 mm. long. Anthers 

 5 mm. long. Achenes 5 mm. long, silky-villous with appressed hairs. 

 Pappus 1 cm. long.— Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 107. P. 

 elegans, Sch. Bip. ex Walp. Rep. ii. 970. 



Distrib.— Caledon ; near Caledon, Echlon and Zeyher, 142! 244! 

 between Cenadendal and Donker Hoek, March, Burchell, 7932! 

 Vogelgat, November, Schlechter, 9525 ! near Hemel en Aarde, without 

 collector (ex Schultz Bip. I.e.), near Hermanus, December, Kensil in 

 Herb. Bolus, 13467 ! Bredasdorp ; near Elim, December, Bolus, 8546 L 



