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Sonder). After a careful examination, however, I am unable to 

 satisfy myself that, excepting the different shape of the leaves and 

 the stronger, more luxuriant grov^th of the whole plant, due, as it 

 appears to me, to a more favourable situation, there is really any 

 difference which can be regarded as of specific value. 



H. HOMiLOCHRYSUM S. Moore (Lepicline § Plantaginea), Journ. Bot., 

 xxxvii. (1899), p. 371. 



This species has been described from small poorly-grown speci- 

 mens. Those of McLea, apparently the first discovered (in 1874), 

 show a plant at least 21 cm. high, with branches 13 cm. long, leaves 

 distinctly petiolate, the largest, including the petiole, 4-8 cm. long, 

 3-3 cm. wide, the panicles up to 6 cm. in spread, the heads about 

 the same size as in the type. The species is unlike any other known 

 to me, but I venture to suggest it would be more fitly placed in the 

 § Aptera, next to H. petiolatum DC. The following additional 

 stations may be added : Transvaal ; district Lydenburg, in crevices 

 of dry quartzose rocks, Drakensbergen near Mac-a-Mac, July, McLea 

 (3013 in herbb. Kew and Bolus). Natal; Great Noodsberg, April, 

 Wood, 933 ! and 4141 ! — the latter quite immature and smaller in all 

 parts (in herb. Kew). 



H. AUREO-NiTENS Schultz Bip. — Note : in the Herb. Norm. 

 Aust-Afr. MacOiuan d Bolus No. 460 were distributed plants of the 

 above species wrongly marked " H. psilolepis DC. var.," which 

 should be corrected. 



Amphiglossa Kolbei Bolus, n. sp. (Inuloidese-Eelhanieae). 



A. foliis erectis appressis nee imhricatis ; capitulis 5-6-fl., $ 2, 

 ligitlis exsertis, ^ 3-4. 



Fruticulus erectus diffusus griseo-tomentosus, 20 cm. altus vel 

 ultra ; rami divaricati subflexuosi graciles rigidi foliosi, 0-l-0'15 cm. 

 diam. ; folia erecta incurvo-appressa sessilia ericoidea, nee imbricata 

 nee gemmifera, late linearia vel oblonga subobtusa crassa, marginibus 

 inflexis, supra dense tomentosa, subtus tenuiter tomentosa demum 

 glabrescentia, 0-25-0'32 cm. longa; capitula ad apices ramulorum 

 breviorum sessiha, 2-3 glomerata, rarius solitaria, cylindrica demum 

 crateriformia, foliis floralibus minoribus congestis arete suffulta, 

 0-4-0*5 cm. longa; involucri squamae erectge 2-3-seriat8e oblongae 

 vel lineares acutse scariosae fusese, extimee basi tomentosae reliquis 

 glabris ; flores $ 2, ^ 3-4, ligulis fll. 2 ereeto-patentibus purpureis, 

 0-3 cm. longis, 012 cm. latis, corollis fll. ^ 0*3 em. longis; achaenia 

 glabra, 0*07 cm. longa. 



