Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions. 393 



Caulis basi lignosus, durus, crassus ; rami erecti vel ascendentes, 

 dense albo-lanati, teretes. Folia pinnatipartita vel biphmatipartita, 

 usque ad 1-5 cm. longa, vix 1 cm. expansa, segmentis linearibus, 

 breviter pubescentibus subacutis. Capitula terminalia, solitaria, longe 

 pedunculata, discoidea ; pedunculi ad 7 cm. longi, superne nudi, 

 iuferne parce foliati, apicem versus glabrescentes. Involucri bracteae 

 circiter 4-seriatae, exteriores lineares, 2 mm. longae, iuteriores 3 mm. 

 longae, oblanceolato-ellipticae, margine late hyalinae, fere glabrae. 

 Flores numerosi ; corollae tubus 15 mm. longus, medio parce glandu- 



Fig 6 —A, Pentzia pinnatisecta, Hutchinson, n.sp., nat. size ; B, leaf of 

 same, x2k; C, flower of Pentzia lanata, Hutchinson, n.sp.; D, mvo- 

 luoral bracts of same, x 5 ; E, pappus, enlarged. 



losus; lobi 5, ovati. Achaenia 1'25 mm. longa, glabra. Pappus 

 auriculaeformis, 1-5 mm. longus, tenuiter membranaceus, margine 



crenulatus. 



Great Namaqualand : Dry stream-bed of sandy plain west of Ganus, 

 Pearson, 4488 ; sandy plains at Schakalskuppe, 4500 ft., fls. yellow, 

 Pearson, 4781 ; [also collected by Schlechter (No. 8153) on the Knechts 

 Vlagte (Little Namaqualand)]. 



8. Pentzia pinnatisecta, Hutchinson, sp. nov. (fig. 6 a-b) ; affinis 

 P. lanatae, Hutchinson, sed foliis graciliter longe pinnatisectis, bracteis 

 haud memliranaceis differt. 



Caules ramiciue ut in P. lanato sed usque ad 30 cm. longi et rami 



