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7. P. microlopha (Burch. DC. 1. c. n. 15.)J—Inter frutices 
prope Uitenhage (IV. C. c.) Apr. 1839. Krauss n. 1229. 
ct 1231.—As to habit and form of the leaves this species is 
intermediate between P. Burmanni (DC.) and P. virgata 
Thunb. (Fl. Cap. p. 555.) From the latter, which it 
resembles in the want of pubescence, and in the blunt, sub- 
coriaceous leaves, itis readily distinguished by its shorter 
racemes and pedicels, its flowers of scarcely half the size, its 
short crista carinalis, and its shorter and not so manifestly 
cuneate leaves. From P. Burmanni, with which it agrees in 
the length of the racemes and pedicels, and whose flowers are 
but a trifle larger, it differs especially in the absence of 
pubescence, in the stronger consistence and generally blunt 
termination of the leaves, and in the shortness of its crista 
carinalis. Our plant agrees pretty well with De Candolle's 
but too insufficient diagnose. The leaves, however, are more 
frequently lanceolate than “linear,” varying from 6 to 10 
lines in length, and from 1 to 1-1 line in breadth ; they are 
attenuated at both ends (not broadest at the top, like P. vir- 
gata), and usually quite obtuse, with a more or less visible, 
but always minute, mucro; sometimes, however, they are 
merely acute, as they commonly are in P. Burmanni. Racemes 
6-10-flowered (their summit remaining undeveloped), pedicels 
about as long as the outer sepals; ale four lines long and 
almost as broad, quite obtuse, white, faintly tinged with 
Tose, and marked with their green, pinnate and confluent 
veins, the pale purple crest of the carina scarcely 17 1. long. 
8. P. bracteolata (Linn. DC. 1. c. n. 10. excl. var. é et y) 
Ad latera mont. Duyvelsberg et Tafelberg, (III. A. e.) Sept. 
1838. Krauss n. 907 et 1232. 
9. P. wmbellata (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 555, E. Meyer, in 
pl. Drége. Burm. Afr. t. 73. f. 5; optima.) P. bracteolata 6 et 
forsan y? (DC. 1. c.—In planitie Capensi (III. E. b.) 
Nov. 1838. Krauss n. 988 (ex parte).—We entirely agree 
With our friend E. Meyer, in considering this species as suf- 
ficiently distinct from the foregoing; an opinion towards 
which De Candolle himself had inclined. 
