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tosae, 0*15 cm. longa3, interiores lineari-unguiculatae, appendice ovata 

 patente vel radiante, citrina, usque ad 0*5 cm. longae ; receptaculum 

 foveolatum ; corolla vix matura 0*3 cm. longa ; pappi setae paucae 

 scaberulae, apice barbellatae ; achaenia minutissime glandulosa. 



Var. /3 parvifolia; folia saepius recurva, e basi ampliata sub- 

 auriculata subulato-linearia acuminata, margine crispulato revoluto, 

 ad 1-1 cm. longa, 0*l-0-2 cm. lata, paucis expansis latioribus 

 oblanceolatis hinc inde intermixtis. 



Hab. : Cape Colony ; in sandy fields round Clanwilliam, approx. 

 alt. 120 meters, Oct., also on Eam's Kop near Clanwilliam, Aug., 

 C. L. Leipoldt, 510! var. /3, in rocky places, Wupperthal, Clanwilliam 

 distr., alt. 580 meters, Oct., Bolus, 9022. 



This has the habit and aspect of H. fastigiatum Harv., next before 

 which I would place it ; the differential characters are given above. 

 The heads are very like those of H. excisum Less., except that the 

 involucral scales of this are not quite so squarrose. The foliage of 

 our var. /3 looks very different from that of the type, but having 

 found a few expanded leaves, like those of the type, but smaller, 

 amongst the others, I concluded that, as the locality would suggest, 

 it is but a form of the type adapted to more severe life-conditions. 

 It has more the aspect of H. fastigiatum than has the type itself. 



H. ZwARTBEEGENSE Bolus, n. sp. (Euhelichrysum § Imbricata). 



H. prostratum ; foliis oblongo-obovatis, utrinque lanatis; capitulis 

 in apicibus ramulorum sessilibus, solitariis vel interdum, ramulis 

 aggregatis, 2-3 ; involucri sguamis erectis testaceis. 



Fruticulus humilis perennis prostratus subcaespitosus ; ramuli 

 numerosi breves adscendentes graciles foliosi lanati ; folia erecto- 

 patentia sessilia oblongo-obovata obtusissima, utrinque lana grisea 

 laxissime intertexta vestita, 0"5-0*6 cm. longa, 0*3 cm. lata, floralia 

 parum minora capitula arete involucrantia; capitula sessilia solitaria 

 ad apices ramulorum vel interdum, ramulis aggregatis, 2-3, sub- 

 cylindrica homogama, circa 23-fl., 0*5 cm. longa, 0*35 cm. lata ; 

 involucri squamae 3-seriatae, erectae, subacutae, dorso + lanatae, 

 testaceae, apiculo fusco, exteriores ovatae, 0*2 cm. longae, interiores 

 lineares, O'S cm. longae, floribus parum longiores; receptaculum 

 nudum; corollae, 0-3 cm. longae; pappi setae serrulatae, copiosae; 

 achaenia papillata, 0-05 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Cape Colony ; district Prince Albert, rocky places on the 

 'summit of the Zwartberg Eange near the Pass, approx. alt., 1,675 

 meters, Dec, Bolus, 11532 (in herb. Kew^). 



The place of this species in the genus is difficult to determine. 



