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truncatis apice erosulis carinatis carina juxta apicem levissime 
cristulata, corollis fil. 9 ae orum exstant pro capitulo 3-5) cylin- 
dricis — atis fil. ¥ 2 leviter infundibuliformibus (sc. tuk 
: ce athe Salisbury; R. F. Rand, 527. Mazoe, on bank 
of stream flowing from granite; F’. Eyles, 405. 
Folia vulgo 3-0-5-0 em. long., 0:15-0- 3 om. lat., glandulis im- 
mersis copiose induta. Pedunceuli circa 1:0-2:0 cm. long. Glome- 
ruli rite evoluti 0-8 cm. diam. Bractew exteriores 0:3 x 0-2 em.; 
involucrorum interiorum bractexe 0:3 x 0-12cem. Involueri Me 
egre 0:3 cm. long. Flosculi dilute purpurei. orolle fil. 
2cm. fil. 3 0-15em. long. Achenia valde cruda circa 0-075 a 
ng. 
To be compared with S. gomphrenoides O. Hoffm., a species I 
have not seen, which is described as possessing shorter leaves, 
biseriate bracts of the glocadrides the outer series differing in shape 
from the inner, bracts of the three-leaved inyolucres with a long 
ares and corollas of the female florets widened at base and 
De “Ran d’s specimen, gathered in 1898, was not described, 
-“ it was undesirable to dissect the only glomerule the specimen 
ars. 
Helichrysum (CHRYSOLEPIDEA § aan Rogersii, sp. 
nov. Planta ses denso albo-araneoso vestita, caule sat 
cili lignoso sursum ramoso races folioso, tokiin' parvis sessilibus 
grac 
lineari-oblongis apice a6 Gbtusis haud mucronatis nequaquam decur- 
erate margine revolutis ramulorum apicem attingentibus, 
capitulis parvis subsessilibus campanulato-cylindricis Lon 
15-17- onculeaaer in glomerulum densiusculum ramulos 
nantem necnon a foliis ultimis aliquanto imminutis plea etoe 
digestis, involucri 4-serialis glabri my llis is eh ob- 
tusis vel acutiusculis haud radiantibus um citrinis interioribus 
uam reliqua paullo brevioribus, anther sande: simplicibus, 
achzeniis earn cylindricis glabris, pappi ee scabridis albis. 
Hab. Port Alfred, Cape Colony; Rev. F. A. Rogers, 944. 
Planta saltem spithamea, Folia + 1- ic cm. Sy oa ios 0-3 cm. 
lat., summa cirea 0-5 em. eee: Glomeruli circa 1 . 
Capitula 0°5 cm. long., 0°35 em. lat. Involueri ainle extima 
°35 cm. long., interiora 0-4 cm. long. olla em. long. 
Achenia pe 0-1 em. long ; pappus 0-35 cm. long. 
Near H. rutilans Nees, from which it differs among other 
points in the ines aad i leaves. ! 
pon stenopterw od. vi. 201, v: 
var. noy. A typo discrepat Yeidacnanadle ob Slit Bll pen 
nec aurea. 
Hab. Mazoe; F. Eyles, 363. 
“A lax straggling herb amongst dense undergrowth on the 
edge of marsh jungle.” | validis 
a rhodesiana, sp. nov. Herbacea ramis v: 
crebro ai scabriuscule puberulis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
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