ALABASTRA DIVERSA 187 
lineari-subulatis minute papillosis, acheniis immaturis compressi- 
c asi pilosis, pappi paleis 12 lanceolatis vel lanceolato- 
linearibus minute denticulatis 
Hab. Wolmaransstad district, Western Transvaal. 
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0-7 cm. long., 0°5 em. diam. ; phylla 0-7 cm. long., latiora 0-15 em. 
angustiora 0-1 cm. lat. Receptaculi pale 0°03 cm. lat. Corolle 
0-8 cm. long. ; tubus sursum gradatim dilatatus, extus papillosus, 
inferne As cm. faucibus 0°12 em. diam. ; lobi 0°3 em. long. Styli 
ami O-lcm. long. Achenia 0-2 cm., pappi paler 0:22—0-25 cm. 
earn oa dilate stramines 
nus has hitherto been represented by only two species, 
nei both be which the plant here described differs signally 
of, among several other characters, its minute leaves, its 
nites pismeviles of heads, its at most eae spinulose-acuminate 
involucral leaves, and its pappus of twelve s 
gustissimum, nov. Suffrutex e caulibus 
foliis sepe approximatis et pseudoverticillatis angustissime lineari- 
bus sursum parum dilatatis sessilibus obtusis apice haud recurvis 
slabs, floribus sessilibus ad apices ramulorum approximatis, 
bractea foliis consimili bracteolas bene excedente, hiracteblig me 
lobos subequantibus glanduloso-pubescentibus angustissimis, caly- 
cis lobis 4, corolla calycem breviter excedente extus glanduloso- 
pubescente ‘tubo brevi labio postico oblongo-ovato emarginato labii 
antici lobis ovatis obtusissimis interme dio o quam laterales latiore, 
ovarii loculis 2-ovulatis ovulis inferioribus solummodo fertilibus, 
capsula calycem — utrinque angustata sursum glanduloso 
pubescente 2-sperm 
Hab. Between ‘Schmidt’ s Drift, Bod River, and Griqua Town. 
Radix e nee multis rigidis con s. Caules primarii circa 
0-5 cm. diam., cortice aiquanitelaia’ sation obducti; ramuli de- 
cbratioey se imine 20-0-80'0 em. long., 0°015 cm. diam. ; ram 
ultim ppt bear long., longiores deorsum demum nudi. Folia 
circa 0: hee m. long ., raro 1°5 cm. attingentia, 0: 1-0: 15 cm. lat., 
una cum beiboesie bracteolisque wetate decoloria. —— ole modice 
circa 0°6 cm. et calycis lobi 0°55 cm. long. Corolle verisimiliter 
‘07 cm 
long. Discus 0-05 cm. alt. Ovarium fere 0-2 cm. long. Stylus 
0-6 cm. long., puberulns: Capsula 0-65 cm. long. Semina levia, 
fusca, vix 0°2 cm. diam 
Neare st M, fama 0: B. Clarke and M. nepetoides C. B. Clarke, 
from which it differs by its very narrow leaves and several details 
of floral structure, 
