PLATE 363. 



EUUYOPS PEDUNXJULATUS, JSl. K. I3K<>\\\ ( I\e\v Bulletin, 1895, p. 117). 



Natural Order, 



Au erect plant bearing yellow flowers on long peduncles. Stems 6 inches to 

 3 feet long, sometimes branched, densely leafy, glabrous or sparingly woolly near 

 the apex. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, linear, snhcarnose, mostly trilobed, but 

 sometimes bilobed or simple, glabrous, 1 i to 3 inches long, ^ to | line wide. 

 Peduncles terminal, 1-headed, naked, glabrous, li to 10 inches long. Heads 

 radiate, many flowered, 7 to 10 lines diameter, involucral scales 10 to 12, ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, acute, minutely fringed at apex, connate at base for about one third 

 of their length, 3 to 3J lines long, 1 to 1 ] line wide. Receptacle toothed ; rny 

 florets ligulate, minutely tridentate at apex, 5 lines long, 1 line wide ; disk florets 

 tubular, narrowed at base, 5-toothed, 1J to 2 lines long. Pappus bristles short, 

 deciduous. Styles glabrous, style-arms minutely glandular at apex. Ovary 

 thickly covered with short white hairs. Ripe achenes not seen. 



Habitat: NATAL: Oliver's Hook Pass, -January, Wood No. 3601; Hlatikulu 

 Hill, 6,000 to 7,000 feet alt., January, Evans, 397 ;' Van Keenen's Pass, 0,0(30 to 

 6,000 feet alt., Wood, 8715. Also in Transvaal, Rehmann, 6133; and in O.K. 

 Colony, Cooper, 2522. 



The genus Euryop6 includes about 30 species, one of which is found in 

 Abyssinia and Arabia, the remainder are South African, and of these 4 or 5 are 

 found in Natal, but only one of the Natal species attains the size of a small 

 shrub. The plant here described does not appear to be very common, and has 

 only been met with at high altitudes, where it is sometimes found in rather large 

 patches. 



Fig. 1, involucre ; 2, an involucral scale ; 3, disk floret ; 4, two stamens ; 

 5, style and stigmas ; 6, pappus bristle ; nil enlarged. 



