346 Annals of the South African Museum. 



A bush 13 in. high. Branches densely leafy, densely pubescent or 

 subtomentose above, soon becoming almost glabrous. Leaves -9-2-5 cm. 

 long, deeply 3-5-sect ; the younger leaves softly pilose, becoming 

 glabrous with age ; the lower undivided portion of the leaf 5-8 mm. 

 long, 1-5-2 mm. broad, linear; segments -3-1-5 cm. long, -75 mm. 

 broad, linear, acutely mucronate. Heads peduncled, massed in a dense 

 globose corymb at the ends of the branches, 45-6 mm. long, 4"5 mm. 

 in diameter, urceolate or subglobose, between 50-60-flowered. 

 Peduncles up to 1*5 cm. long, terete, subtomentose. Receptacle palea- 

 ceous ; paleae 2 mm. long, -75 mm. ln-oad, oblong, shortly jaggered 

 towards the apex. Involucral bracts 3-seriate, 35-4 mm. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, membranous round the apex, with a brown spot 

 near the tip, scantily pilose, almost glabrous, ciliate. Corolla-tube 

 2 mm. long, terete, glabrous ; lobes 1 mm. long, ovate, subobtuse, 

 glabrous. Filaments 15 mm. long, linear, glabrous ; anthers 125 mm. 

 long, linear, with a small ovate gland at the apex. Pappus a series 

 of very narrow linear scales 1 mm. long. Ovary 125 mm. long, 

 *75 mm. broad, oblong in outline, ribbed, glabrous ; style 2 mm. long, 

 terete, glabrous ; lobes -75 mm. long, linear, truncate. 



I at first determined this plant as A. palmatifida, DC, from the 

 description in the ' Flora Capensis,' but as we had no specimen, 

 material was forwarded to Kew. The Director of Kew very kin.Uv 

 sent one of the specimens to Dr. C. Lindman, of Stockholm, who 

 compared it with Sonder's plant. Dr. Lindman reported fully on the 

 specimen, and there seems to be considerable doubt as to the plant 

 being A. palmatifida, DC, and as the type of the species is so 

 imperfect it was considered advisable to describe my plant as a new 

 species. It differs from the type of A. palmatifida, DC, in the 

 following respects : the young leaves are pilose, not " densely 

 tomentose with a fine short tomentum " ; the involucral bracts are 

 scantily pilose, sometimes almost glabrous, not " so densely tomentose 

 that their shape and form can hardly be seen." 



1 take the opportunity of naming this plant in compliment to Mr. 

 A. Handel Hamer, who has done so much to arouse public interest 

 in the j^rotection of the Cape flora. 



EURYOPS, Cass. 



E. Pearsonii, Phillips, sp. nov. Rami supra foliosi, infra nudi, 

 glabri. Folia m 7-l'6 cm. longa, 3-6 mm. lata, elliptica vel elliptico- 

 oblonga, apice obtusa, basi angustata, rugosa, glabra. Capitula 



