2 
as defined in the Flora Capensis contains 21 species, but as understood 
by the earlier authorities, such as R. Brown and Meisner, it embraced 
5 others, two of which occur in the Karroo. These ive species eee 
been made by Phillips the types of a separate genus, Spatallopsis, 
on account of their strictly actinomorphic as opposed to slightly 
zygomorphic perianth, and of slight differences in the ovary and 
stigmatic disk. The species here figured, S. squamata, Meisn., is 
remarkable in the genus Spatalla in having conspicuous, more or less 
membranous, glabrescent involucres, which are provided with a 
curious line of hairs inside below the middle lobe; another distinct 
feature is the spirally coiled and reflexed anticous (abaxial) = 
segments with their long-appendaged limbs J. Hurc 
1, leaf ; 2, bract subtending the involucre ; 3, involucre and flower in bud ; 
as swe ight x appt as the line of hairs below the middle lo be ; 5, perianth ; 
upper part 
id 
limb; 7, anther; 8, pistil; 9, longitudinal section of 
ovary. All ‘iastied. 
