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long, 13 mm. broad, linear or oblanceolate-linear, acute or subacute, 

 narrowed and free at the base, flat or when very narrow almost terete 

 and club-shaped, whitish woolly pubescent within the base for about 

 3 mm., otherwise glabrous. Heads about 5-7-flowered, subcylindric, 

 subacute when young, 2 cm. long. /// volucral bracts few, about 3-seriate. 

 closely imbricate, lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, concave within, 

 glabrous. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Corolla white, pubescent ; 

 lobes lanceolate, subobtuse, 2'5 mm. long, glabrous. Style-branch es 

 2 mm. long, linear, subacute, papillous on the uppermost third. 

 Achenes long-pilose from the lower part and pubescent on the remaining 

 portion. Pappus setae unequal, up to 7 mm. long, reddish. — Drege, 

 Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 68, 90, 95, 214 ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. iii. 107. 



Distrib. — Little Bushmanland to Little Namaqualand : 

 Bushmanland; Ivweekfontein, January, Pearson, 3815! Little 

 Namaqualand ; between Pedros Kloof and Lelie Fontein, 3,000- 

 4,000 ft., November, Drege a ! Dry hills near Spektakel, September, 

 Bolus, 420 ! 6542 ! Springbokfontein, 3000 ft., September, Schlechter^ 

 11312! Poort Mountain, December, Pearson, 2974! Spektakel, 

 Morris ! without locality, American Rubber Co., 2686 ! 



55. P. gymnocline, DC. Prodr. v. 359. 



Branchlets slender, pale, slightly ribbed, glabrous. Peaces some- 

 times in clusters or the lower ones opposite and the upper alternate, 

 free from each other at the base, linear or subspatkulate-linear, obtuse, 

 keeled 05-1 cm. long, up to 2 mm. broad, thick and fleshy, minutely 

 punctate. Heads solitary, terminal, sessile, acutely acuminate in bud, 

 at length cylindric, P5-2 cm. long, about 6 mm. in diameter. In- 

 volucral bracts straw-coloured, about 6-seriate ; the outermost passing 

 gradually into the leaves, oblong-lanceolate, about 2 mm. long; the 

 innermost linear or oblong-linear, about L4 cm. long ; all chaffy and 

 rounded at the apex or obtuse, with a very small mucro slightly below 

 the actual apex, quite glabrous. Receptacle flat, about 25 mm. in 

 diameter, deeply honeycombed. Corolla-tube cylindric, ribbed towards 

 the base, 7 mm. long, glabrous ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 

 1*5 mm. long. Achenes 45 mm. long, densely villous with appressed 

 yellow hairs. Pappus as long as the corolla, straw-coloured. — Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 101. P. calvescens, Drege, Zwei Pflanzen- 

 geogr. Docum. 93, name only. 



Disteib. — Little Namaqualand; on stony and rocky hills near 

 Verleptpram, below 1000 ft., September, Drege I 



