374 ALABASTRA DIVERSA. 
ferens. Folia summa 5:0-6-0 cm. long., 0-2-0°4 em. lat. (rarissime 
usque 8°5 x 0°7 cm.), inferiora pleraque 2:0-8-0 cm. pleraque 0:5- 
1:0 long., omnia coriaceo-membranacea, in sicco viridia, aia 
glandulis impressis crebro innotata. Capitula circa 0-7 em. diam. 
Tnvolucri 0°8 em. long. et 0:5 cm. lat. phylla exteriora coriacea, 
nacea 
The very aed branches which spring from the lower part of 
the stem and are crowned each by a solitary phe give this 
plant a curious appearance. It differs fro . Luederitziana 
O. Hoffm. (known to me by description a in the habit, the 
massed capitula at the top of the stem, those of (. Luederiteiana 
eing always solitary, in the differently shaped capitula, in the 
outer involucral leaves being Ses a aeons appendage. 
) 
are penninerved, its involucres are described as being globose and 
their outer leaves as having a foliaceous appendage, the receptacle i ned 
ae and the awns of the five inner pappus-palee are shorter 
an the pales themselves 
-noy. Suffrutex erectus, ramosus, rari- 
natis omnibus araneosis deinde g eiie re ee eaa convexo, >, pappi 
paleis exterioribus 5 muticis interioribus 5 arista quam se ips 
breviore terminatis. 
Hab. aT Rhodesia; Dr. R. Frank Rand, May, 1898 
ie Mus. Brit 
oS ae ay Sob lucri 0°8 cm. a 0°5-0°6 cm. lat. phyla 
etn to the iat, but quite oo in habit and leaf. The 
anaceous outer involucral leaves and inner palew of the 
pappus Apes than their awns are a0 sears worthy rf mention. - 
Geigeria pubescens, sp. nov. Suffruticosa, ascendens, ra- 
mosa, crebro Sees pubescen 5, foliis sessilibus alternis saboppo- 
sitisve planis linearlaneeolatis mucronatis integris vel breviter 
b : 
ageregatis, involueri ovoidei plus minus araneosi phyllis exterioribus 
late oblongis brevissime foliaceo-appendiculatis intermediis oblongis 
a ee intimis lanceolatis acutis obtusisve, receptaculo con- 
vexo, pappi paleis exterioribus 5 muticis rarius breviter aristulatis 
iiesiatinas 5 arista sibi ipsis equilonga munitis, 
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