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araneoso-tomentoso intertexto undique vestitus ; rami abbreviati, 

 decumbentes, dense foliosi, ad 6 cm. longi ; folia patentia conferta 

 obovato-spathulata acuta, basi sensim angustata quasi petiolata, 

 semi-amplexicaulia, pleraque 0-6-1 cm. longa, majoribus ad 1-5 cm. 

 longis, 0*2-0"4 cm. lata ; capitula solitaria heterogama, immatura 

 €ylindracea demum campanulata, 0-5 cm. longa, 0-4-0-5 cm. lata, 

 in pedunculis gracilibus nudis vel minute bracteatis ad 2*2 cm. 

 longis; involucri squamae S-seriatae laxse erecto-patentes, apice 

 niveae, infra tomentosae, 0'4-0*5 cm. longae, exteriores ovatae acutae 

 sub tomento intertexto fere absconditae, interiores lanceolatae intimis 

 linearibus obtusis subaequilongae ; receptaculum foveolatum ; flores 

 2 ad 8, ^ ad 18, corollis 0*25 cm. longis ; pappi setae fere leves ; 

 achaenia papillosa 0-06 cm. longa. 



Hab.: Cape Colony, near Hanover, Jan., approx. alt. 1,441 meters, 

 T. B. Sim, 2863 ! (in herb. Galpin). 



A very distinct species, nearest to H. declinatum Less., next to 

 which it may be placed ; but easily distinguished by its prostrate 

 habit, more copious snow-white indument, proportionately broader 

 leaves, and more especially by its solitary heads. 



H. LiTORALE Bolus, n. sp. (Buhelichrysum § Declinata). 



H. prcecincto Klatt affine subsimileque, sed foliis multo majorihus 

 ohovatis remotiorihusque, involucri squamis hyalinis, clistinctum. 



Herba biennis (?) late diffusa, ad 13 cm. alta ; rami procumbentes 

 vel laxe adscendentes graciles araneosi, parce foliati, ad 30 cm. longi, 

 ramulis floriferis erectis ; folia patentia remota spathulato-obovata, 

 apice rotundata, semi-amplexicaulia, utrinque cano-tomentosa, vetu- 

 stiora saepe nigrescentia, 1-2*5 cm. longa, 0-5-1-1 cm. lata ; capitula 

 in glomerulis 2-3-cephalis ad apices ramulorum brevium aggre- 

 gata, foliis floralibus involucrata, homogama campanulata, 10-16-fl., 

 0-45 cm. longa ; involucri squamae 3-seriatae erectae, oblongae vel 

 lineares obtusae, minute apiculatae, vel saepe demum emarginatae, 

 hyalinge, supra medium fuscae, 1-nerviae, 0-3-0'4 cm. longae; recepta- 

 culum alveolatum ; corollee 0*3 cm. longae ; pappi setae copiosse 

 scaberulae; achaenia glabra 0-07 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Cape Colony ; distr. East London, on the beach near 

 Oooda E. mouth, Dec, Galpin, 7342 ! sandhills, Kwenqura R. 

 mouth, Dec, Galpin, 5786! (in. herbb. Galpin and Bolus). 



Allied to H. prcecinctum Klatt, of which we have seen and 

 examined the type, but is a more robust plant, with fewer, larger 

 obovate leaves, larger clusters of heads, and hyaline involucral 

 scales, not opaque as in H. prcecinctum. In spite of the difference 



