372 ALABASTRA DIVERSA. 
» Lege a Paniculus usque 4:0 cm. diam. Capitula 0°6 cm. 
ee -, Vix 0°5 em. lat. intact enetts ae 0:45 cm. long., 
ans intima ti 5 cm. long., 0-1 lat. Achienia Vix 
0- : st ay pappi s SE Aéecolis paullo peariaes 0-3 cm 
Distributed as U Hickey affin. crassifolio Less.,”’ bat ‘this, 
on investigation, turns out not to be the true affinity. The plant 
here described seems to come nearest H. mas Sl and its allies, 
from all a which, however, it is eee di 
sum (Lepiciine § § Aprera) Mi fata, sp.nov. Hre 
simis, receptaculo paleis lanceolatis sordide albidis onusto, acheniis 
glabris, pappi setis albis. 
ab. Ly a district, Transvaal; Dr. F. Wilms (No. 727 
in Herb. Mus. Brit 
Planta ultra 20. em. alt, ore onete eetate See ce et in 
longitudinem striatus. Folia 1-5 em. long., 0:8-1:2 em. lat. 
(pauca superiora vero minora Ca a petioli usque 0°7 cm. 
long., plerumque vero breviores. Paniculus rami principalis usque 
3°0 cm. dia: di 
m.,ramulorum 1-0-1:5 cm. diam. vel etiam minor. 
Bractee conspicue, usque 0-4 cm. long. Capitula 0-4 cm. long., 
0°3 cm. lat. Achenia 0-07 em. et pappi sete 0°25 em 
. long. 
This has been distributed as H. petiolatum DC., a plant greatly 
resembling it in foliage, but with quite different capitula. H. Mimetes 
should be placed next H. revolutum Less., from which its peculiar 
eaves and fewer- led capitula serve at once to distinguish it. 
Massoni, sp. nov. Caule erecto ramulos breves 
. : : ya 
capitulatis adjectis aliis ad apicem caulis agaregntiel capitulis 
triseriatis appendicibus petaloideis oblongis acutis lacteis onustis, 
pappi setis obscurissime clavellatis. 
Hab. Cape Colony; Francis Masson (Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
Caulis circa 0-2 cm. diam., appresse pubescens. Ramuli capitu- 
em. long. orti 
0:3-0°5 em 
puberula, Capitula 0-7 ¢ em. long., medio vix 0-2 em. lat. proud 
5 em. long.; intermedia oe 0°5 cm. long. ; 
intima MAES erecto-patcitin, 0°6-0°7 cm. long. Floseulorum 
cirea 0-3 cm. long. limbus roseus. Achenia nondum matura 
. long. 
€ arrangement of the cymes all up the m 
stem: is « ~~ whereby this species can at once be told mig We 
congeners 
