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ee tips. a meet inspection one might suppose the new 
plant to be a (ran hich in general appearance it greatly re- 
seni but Saartian reveals important structural differences. 
Its place would seem to be next to Denekia, 
Nicolasia, 
Compositarum e tribu Inuloidearum genus novum (tab. 416 B). 
Capitula St pero disciformia, multiflosculosa, flosculis 
serierum exteriorum fcemineis, interiorum hermaphroditis, omni- 
Lae fertilibus. Pigiunit, late campanulati phylla pauciseriata, 
mbricata, angusta, membranacea, extima quam reliqua breviora 
oa a ie planum, nudum. Flosculorum fom. corolle fili- 
formes, stylo suo breviores, apice minute denticulate; floscu- 
lorum hermaph. tubulose, apice 5-fide. Anthere breviter apicu- 
late, basi caudate, caudis sejunctis. Flosculorum hermaph. styli 
filiformes hirtelli, indivisi. Achenia parva COMpreaes Om- 
nium acheniorum pappi sete 3, attenuate, caduciss me.—Sufir 
tices humiles. Folia alterna, integra vel dentic ulata, ieee hies inte 
ramorum florigerorum = agaala Capitula parva, ad apicem ra- 
morum solitaria vel pauc 
his appears to be a well rds Series and one near to that 
already described in this In many respects it resembles 
Pluchea, but the habit, the fee tails to the anthers, the compressed 
achenes, and, above all, the pappus with its three cadueous sete, 
Hatch aac ‘points of distinction. Peg oally. | the affinity is closer 
with Epaltes, Denekia, and Delamerea ; but, a g other characters, 
the absence of a distinct pappus from the Nahiands of Epaltes and 
om the circumferential ones of Denekia and Delamerea, and the 
different pappus of the interior achenes of the two latter genera, 
furnish ample grounds for establishing this as a new genus. 
saree Cr3avis. 
sa ater Folia juniora maxime abbreviata 
vata. Capitula sabsoailia. Stiri 
ekyllé lanceolata, spinuloso-acuminata. . 1. N. heterophylla. 
Albo- -pubescens. Folia juniora obit cies . Capit 
ula pedunculata. Involucri aye ie 
cians . a Rag sicass 
juxta apicem ramulorum oriundis, involucro 3-seriali hujus phyllis 
lanceolatis spinuloso- Sacieeres at 22 -marginatis ciliolatis. 
Hab. Damaraland, 1879; 7. G. Ke in rb. Mus. Brit.). 
0'1 
alia vero 0°5-0°8 cm. long. exstant. Pe eae circa 0-2 cm. long. 
Capitula 0°6 om. diam. Involucri phylla extima 0-2 cm. long. et 
