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rentia. Stainiuodia sqnamulaeformia, linearia, obtiistuscula, 

 integerrima, laevissima. 



Sericocoma trichiuioides Fenzl in Drege coli, pl, 

 cap. n. 4680. Patria: Afric^ extima austro - Orientalis. Ha- 

 bitat: iti gramiiiosis ad littora inaris prope Port Natal Caf- 

 frariae. iDrege.') 



Herbae, verosimillime aniinae, caules video fere ses- 

 quipedales, adscciidenles, simplicissimos, inferius ramnlo nuo 

 alterove iuevointo, pollicari v. sesquipoUicari auetos, crassitie 

 fili emporelici inediocris, angulato-striatos aDgulis albicanti- 

 biis, basi iraa teretiiisculos, iaevissitnos^ ad tertiain partem lon- 

 gitudiüis tantnm foliatos, nltcrius scapiformes, squamolis 2 — 

 5, herbaceis, laxiuscuTs, unam alteraniTe lineam loDgis, 

 linearibus, obtusis v. acutis, glabris obsessos. Folia caa- 

 ÜDa ac rainulornm infima opposita, reliqua subopposita, pol- 

 licem diraidiura ad diios per paria dissila, supreraa alterna, 

 erecto-patiila, lauceolata, basim versus in petiolum, cana- 

 licnlatuin, unam alleramve lineam longum, angustissimum, 

 seHsim atteunala^ integerrima, acuta subcartiiagineo-mncro- 

 iiata, nuiuervia, glaberrima-, iufiraa ac ramulorum fasciculi- 

 formium infcriorum 1/2 — ^ poUicem longa, reliqua ac ramu- 

 lorum superiornm explicatorum biuacialia ac parnm longiora, 

 IY2 — 5 lineas lata, laete riridia. Inflorescentia ter- 

 minalis, spicam cjlindricam, deusissimam, triuucialcm, digi- 

 tam raiuimura crassam , apice rotundatam, villosam, strami- 

 aearo, nitidam exhibens. Fl res hermaphroditi , ternati, 

 laterales bibracteolali, glomerati, glomcrulis tribracteatis 

 in rachide recia, angulata^ villosa, sessilibns, confertissimis, 

 demum ex axiila bracteae infimae, persisteritis delabentibus. 

 Bracteae, scarlosae, nitidae viridi-cariuatae; Crium ex- 

 teriorum infima, ovata, acuminata, aristato-mucronn- 

 lata, carina validiere ima basi tautom sabvillosa percorsa^ 



