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0°15 cm. long., 0:06 cm. lat. Pappi sete exteriores pauce, interiores 
somewhat larger heads, with broader eee scales, and longer 
pec few-ribbed, nearly glabrous achenes. Dr. Hoffmann 
refers to his V. brachycaly iiflebranat’s No. 2466, a plant with 
its pis rg pappus of sete not of scales, and therefore not referable 
to § Lepidella. This is exceedingly near V. meiocalyx, but its leaves 
are much smaller and differently shaped, the involucral scales = 
aiierhat broader, and the turbinate achenes are more like thos 
of V. brachycalyx. i propose to distinguish this as V. Lisfoenetina. 
eronia decumbens Banks MSS., sp. nov. Suffruticosa?, 
undanter ramosa, glutinosa, foliis ee rigidis lineari-subu- 
latis obtusis erecto-patentibus basi antibus, capitulis ter- 
minalibus subsessilibus eolitarit le prea cylindricis 4- 
posters involucri phyllis circa 7-seriatis extimis abbreviatis una 
rmediis ovatis eens oblongis intimis vero lineari- 
iausclatia” omnibus obtusis arcte adpressis firmis nequaquam 
scariosis, acheeniis dense villos os 
Hab. Cape Colony; Francis Masson (Herb. Mus. Brit.): Touw 
River Railway Station, 1885, at 2500 ft. of elevation; Bolus (Herb. 
Folia 0: 7 cm. long. (summa vero breviora), basi vaginante 0- 15 
em. sursum 0-1 cm. lat., facie superiori plana vel pie: concava 
inferiori rotunda, sacee striata. Capitula 1-0 cm. long., 0°35 cm. 
lat. aaa phyla extima 0-3 cm. long., 0-2 cm. lat. ; "intermedia 
circa 0°6 ma 0°9 cm. long., omnia araneoso-ciliolata et in 
innlita vat talen siccitate) pluristriata. Achenia turbinata, 
in Pappi sete vix usque 0-6 cm. long., basi ipsa 
crete. 
Nearest P. apepere Linn, fil., but with many peculiar features, 
such as the much shorter and narrower leaves nec ciagh gil rower 
not-fascicled heads, the poste obtuse Savolauead scales, & 
Gnaphali sulatum, sp. Caule erecto ‘ciated 
humili vel elongato ‘ibid lanato, foliis ‘cadieaibad sessilibus arcte 
rosulatis late lineari-spathulatis obtusis supra glabris Et gr Sr 
u 
capitulorum be terminalibus subspheroideis, capitulis akionaa 
obtusis lanatis 80-fiose diosa flosculis 5 bisexualibus, involucri 
phyllis tatineolatiy interioribus lamina acuta alba coronatis, acheniis 
compressis. 
ab. Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, New Grenada; F. A. A. 
Simons, 1880 (Herb. Mus. 
Exempll. majorum aake: ibe ad 17-0 em., minorum nonnum- 
quam ad 15 em. miniatus. Folia radicalia 1-5-2- 0 cm. long., 0°3— 
0°5 cm. lat. Cyme 15 cm. diam. C os 0-6 cm. long., 0°25 
5 me Involucri enn a interiora 0-4 i 
Ache 
ong. nia 0-1 em. long., sabia bas Neweitas 
basbellaser, 0-3 cm. long. 8 pappi se 
