ICONES PLANTARUM. 49 
This species, allied in some sae to C, oligoclada, F. Muell., was un- 
fortunately overlooked at a me of making up the second volume of the 
uF. ustraliensis,’ Cunn Se am’s specimen, the only one then known, 
having been accidentally mislaid i in a wrong 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, back view. 3. Stamens,—ai/ magnified. 4, Young 
fruit, Sure Size. 
Pirate 1062. 
MACOWANIA REVOLUTA, Oliv. 
CoMPOSIT#. 
Macow: Wwania, Oliv. gen. nov.—Capitulum multifloram, heterogamum ; 
floribus radii uniseriatis Froulatis femineis, disci tubulosis abortu masculis. 
Involucrum hemisphzericum ; squame multiseriate, imbricata, ovatee v. lan- 
ceolate, ineequales, rigidiuscule, subscariose, intus glabra, interiores longiores 
lineari- vel oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse. Receptaculum leviter conve 
epaleaceum. Corolle radii rd Jigula late oblonga v. elliptica apice 
3-denticulata; disci tubulose, 5-dentate. -Anthere ” corolla equi a 
u 
papillosus, brevissime et obtuse bilobulatus. <Achenium sti ulatum, 
leviter arcuatum, subteres, aie oe valide 14—15-costatum, obsolete 
puberulum. Pappus uniserialis, setaceus, setis liberis rigidis scabridis i ineequa- 
libus caducissimis.—Frutex landuloo-hirtus, ramis aise mae zr im 
ramulosis. Folia alterna, sessilia, patentia v. 7 a, limearia, 
marginibus revolutis glendalososeidos, Capitula terminalia, solitaria evi, 
breviter pedunculata v. subsessilia 
M. revoluta, Oliv. sp. unica. 
Has. Collected on the Mountains of the ee River, British Kaffraria, 
y P. M‘Owan, Esq. Distributed under No. ae 3 by the “ South African 
Lichiags Club, ” conducted by Be same gentlem. 
Folia sepius conferta, 4-1 poll. longa. mils erecti, foliis superioribus 
breviores, van ulo: so-hirti v. oho 1 poll. longi, v. interdum capitula sub- 
sessilia. nvolucrum 3 poll. diam., glanduloso-hirtum, squamulis indefinitis 
marginibus apicem versus unokribin exterioribus minutis ovatis, interioribus 
gradatim longioribus lanceolatis oblongisve appresse Se res radit 
circiter 7-12, ligula subplana; disci tubulosi, involucro equilongi. 
I cannot, with any confidence, suggest the affinity of this Hee, ee 
In habit it approaches Gymnostephium (G. rv.), In W 
genus, ssi: the disk-florets are barren and the pappws is caducous. T 
