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alt. 3,000 meters, Oct. (1897) Alfred Bolus (10682 ! in herb. Bolus) ; 

 same place and date, G. Mann (2866 ! in herb. Marloth) ; same place, 

 March (1898) M. S. Evans, 742 ! (in herbb. Kew and Bolus). 



A distinct species without, so far as I know, any near ally. I 

 should place it for the present next to H. subglomeratum Less. At 

 first sight the variety appears to be widely different. It is only 

 when the heads are carefully examined that the specific identity 

 seems unquestionable, and one is forced to the conclusion that it is 

 but a very stunted mountain-form of the type. 



H. LiNEATUM Bolus, n. sp. (EuheHchrysum § Stoechadina). 



H. caule lignoso prostrato (?) ; foliis confertis spathulatis obovatisve 

 apice rotnndatis ; involucri squamis S-i-seriatis sevii-pellucidis, dilute 

 fidvis, lijiea hrunnea notatis. 



Fruticulus prostratus (?) omnino tomento laxe griseo-araneoso 

 indutus ; rami abbreviati capitula adusque dense foliosi, 1*5-3 cm. 

 longi ; folia conferta sessilia patentia, infima rosulata, oblonga vel 

 oblongo-spathulata, obtusissime rotundata, basi parum attenuata, 

 membranacea 0*9-1 '5 cm. longa, 0*4-0*6 cm. lata ; capitula homo- 

 gama subcylindracea vel oblonga, demum turbinata, 0*6 cm. longa 

 0*4 cm. lata, in corymbos 1*5-2 cm. diam. dense conferta ; involucri 

 squamae ca. 25, 3-4-seriat8e, dilute fulvae semipellucidae brunneo- 

 apiculatse, nervo brunneo percursae, extimae variabiles ovatae, 

 oblongae vel lineares, lana absconditae 0*4 cm. longae, interiores 

 lanceolatae obtusae glabrae, 0*5 cm. longae, intimae lineares, apice 

 parum ampliatae flores aequantes ; receptaculum alveolatum ; flores 

 ca. 26, corollis 0*5 cm. longis ; pappi setae fere leves, albae; achaenia 

 glabra, 0*11 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Cape Colony ; district Barkly East, on the great Dra- 

 kensberg Eange, Doodman's Krans Mt., approx. alt. 2,740 

 meters, March, Galpin, 6669 ! (in herbb. Kew Bolus, &c.). 



A stunted little mountain plant, and from the specimens it is 

 scarcely possible to judge whether the very short branches are 

 prostrate or ascending. Its nearest affinity seems to be with 

 H. lucilioides Less. (§ Stoechadina), next to which it might be 

 placed, but the habit is very different and our plant has heads 

 with more than twice as many flowers. 



H. wiTBEBGENSE Bolus, n. sp. (Euhelichrysum § Stoechadina). 



H. fruticosum, foliis ovatis lanceolatisve acutis 7-9-nerviis ; capi- 

 tttlis in corymhos terminates polycephalos sessiles dense confertis, 

 involucri squamis Z-seriatis erectis fuscis, receptaculo foveolato. 



