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crossing the Zwartberg Pass from Prince Albert. It grows in some 

 abundance on the left side of the road about 2 or 2-§- miles from the 

 summit of the Pass, on the Prince Albert side of the mountain. The 

 bush is of straggling habit, 2-3 ft. high, with its branches nude 

 below, flowers yellow, with the aspect of an Athanasia. The redis- 

 covery of the species after a lapse of 130 years appears sufficiently 

 interesting to be worthy of record. 



Athanasia Thodei, Bolus, n. sp. (Compositae-Anthemideae). 



A. foliis linearibus scepius indivisis rarius 2-3-ftdis intermixtis, 

 corymbis polycephalis dense confer Pis, capitulis hemisphericis, 35- 

 ^.0-floris ; involucri squamis subbiseriatis, achceniis pappo minuto 

 denticuliformi coronatis. 



Suffrutex 4-5-pedalis, subviscidus, odore aromatico. Eami erecti 

 vel patentes, ad 20 cm. longi, 0-5 cm. crassi, nudi, asperi, cinerei ; 

 ramuli 8-10 cm. longi, albo-tomentosi, usque ad apicem foliosi, 

 inferne nudi ; folia juniora erecta, demum recurvo-patentia linearia 

 indivisa vel interdum supra medium 2-3-fida, obtusa, superne glabra, 

 aspera, subtus tomentosa prominenter 1-nerva, 2-3 cm. longa 

 0-1-0-15 cm. lata; capitula hemispherica, 03-04 cm. longa, 35-50- 

 flora, in corymbo dense polycephalo, 2-3 cm. lato, conferta, pedicellis 

 bracteatis ; involucri squamae subbiseriatae appressae lanceolatae, 

 acuminatae, scariosae, saepe laceratae, extus tomentosae exterioribus 

 longioribus fibres aequantibus ; receptaculi paleae lanceolatae 

 acuminatae apicem versus serrulatae, floribus paullo brevioribus ; 

 corolla 0'25 cm. longa; achaenia tenuia striata glabra, pappo ,e 

 squamis 5 denticuliformibus acutis minutissimis coronata. 



Hab. : Natal ; stony places near the summit of the Mont-aux- 

 Sources, alt. 2.800 meters, Jan. (1896), Justus Thode, 23 ! Cape 

 Colony; district Barkly East, Doodman's-Krantz-Mt., 2,800 meters, 

 March, Galpin, 6707 ! (in herb. Kew, my own, &c). 



Thode's plant has longer undivided leaves, larger corymbs and 

 smaller heads ; those of Galpin show several bifid and trifid leaves, 

 intermixed with undivided and mostly shorter leaves, smaller 

 corymbs with fewer and larger heads; the measurements given 

 above represent the extremes of size. The species does not greatly 

 resemble any other known to me. 



Eumoephia Davyi, Bolus, n. sp. (Compositae-Anthemideae). 



E. foliis linearibus integris glabris, viridibas ; involucri squamis 

 intimis apice ovatis membranaceo-dilatatis. 



Tota glabra ; rami lignosi adscendentes dense foliosi, 18 cm. longi; 



