404 ALABASTRA DIVERSA. 
ad 2-0 cm. miniata. oe squame rarissime, usque ad 0-3 cm. 
reducte. Capitula a@ 1-0 cm. diam. Involucri phylla deinde 
libera, 0-6 cm. ht 0150-23 cm. lat., anguste albo-marginata. 
Flosculi (acheniis — 08 cm. long., purpurei. Styli rami 
penicillati. Achznia 0-4-0-5 cm. long., circa 10-costata, cylin- 
dracea vel lineata eeabiienra ovata, utrinque levissime attenuata. 
Pappi se - 0-6 cm. long., scabride. 
A somewhat remarkable plant with the appearance of an : hanes 
but weit the central sterile florets characteristic of t 
In this respect it is a Senecio, but the usually unequally a ad in- 
volucral leaves are a character of Othonna. e compressed achenes 
show a tendency ghia Cineraria, but as they are never ovate, 
while some indeed may be subterete, and as, moreover, the habit is 
not that of Otheraita the preferable course seems to be description 
of this as an abnormal Othonna, for I cannot bring myself to pro- 
pose still another genus in this already much subdivided group. 
ullumia Massoni, sp. nov. Copiose ramulosa, foliis pro 
genere parvis imbricatis erecto-appressis eis apice pungenti- 
bus in marginem cartilaginem reflexum bifarie ciliatis, involucri 
parvi campanulati phyllis exterioribus foliis consimilibus, recep- 
taculi alveolis in marginem denticulatis, achzeniis clavatis deorsum 
8-costatis calvis 
Hab. Cape Colony ; Francis Masson (Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
Ramuli attenuati, O-lem.diam. Fo cae modo 0:2-0°3 cm. long., 
cauli plus minus appressa. Involucrum = sib 
lat. ; phylla extima 0-25 em., intima iencoac, acuminata: ‘ciliolata 
rarius spinoso-ciliata, extus strigosa, usque ad 0-6cm. long. Flos- 
culi desunt. Achenia 0-6 cm. long., eleganter polita, sursum 
obscurissime costata. 
The delimitation of species in this genus eat ae amps 
entirely upon the leaves, the absence of florets from Masson’s 
mens is not a matter for regret. The leaves ‘of the eas a 
described are most like those of C. sulca , although still 
markedly dissimilar to them as the vile po gtd ger ows. 
But the comparison ends here, since C. sul s quite different 
involucres. The position of C. Massoni my the e genus is near 
C. pectinata Less. and C, ciliaris R. Br., but it can be at once told 
from both of them, the greatly reduced leaves being more closely 
imbricate than are those of C, pectinata, a: without the long 
reflexed spine of (. ciliate: ; its capitula also are smaller than those 
of ve fraross pat 
mall unnamed Specimen in the Kew Herberinm collected by 
Mande woukt — to be referable to this spec 
Sonshus ,8p.noy. Nana, diffusa, ais — 
solummodo iret ‘caulibus racclibes glabris e rhizomate den 
fusco-lanato oriundis, foliig oblongis linearibusve integris vel since 
i i ia diffusa pauc 
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