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alfcerna, erecto-patentia, inferiora petiolata, petiolo semi-amplexicaule, 

 1*5-2 cm. longo, lanceolato-ovata, acuta, serrate- dentata, puberula, 

 nervis primariis tribus, adscendentibus, 5-6*5 cm. longa, 2*5-3 cm. 

 lata, folia superiora amplexicaulia, ssepe basi aurictilata, acuminata, 

 integra, 1-3 cm. longa ; capitula crateriformia, - 8 cm. longa, 1 cm. 

 lata, in corymbo laxo, 6-9 cephalo, bracteolato, disposita ; involucri 

 squama3 1-seriatae, lanceolatse, cuspidatse, marginibus membranaceis 

 0-6-0-8 cm. longae; flores radii 15-17, ligulis 2 cm. longis ; achaenia 

 florum radii dorso rugosa, 0*4 cm. longa, alis 0-1-0*15 cm. latis, disci? 

 (monstrosa ?) teretia, exalata, 0*8 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Little Nama'land ; between tort Nolloth and Oograbies, 

 approx. alt. 90 meters, Aug., Bolus, 9607; near Spektakel, approx. 

 alt. 460 meters, Sept., Bolus, 9608. 



The achenes in our specimens have fallen from the heads, and we 

 are unable to determine whether the terete exalate form belongs to 

 the disk or the ray flowers, although most probably to the former. 

 In either case they might be a monstrous form. 



Gazania linearifolia, Bolus, n. sp. (Compositae-Arctotideae). 



G. foliis caulinis, radicalib usque linearibus, setuloso-ciliatis; 

 involucri squamis quam tubus duplo longioribus. 



Ad G. armerioidem accedit. 



Herba perennis, 20-25 cm. alta; rhizoma reliquiis fibrosis foliorum 

 delapsorum interdum coronatum ; folia pleraque radicalia, adscen- 

 dentia, rigida, e basi dilatata linearia, acuta, setaceo-mucronata, 

 marginibus revolutis, distanter setuloso-ciliatis, subtus nervis 3-5, 

 prominentibus, 5-8 cm. longa, 0*1-0*2 cm. lata, caulina distantia 

 sensim minora in calyculum abeuntia; caulis simplex, erectus, 

 tomentosus ; capitulum solitarium, cyathiforme, basi rotundatum, 

 2*5 cm. longum, 2 cm. latum ; involucri squamas 2-3-seriatae, 

 lineares, acuminatae, intimis setaceis, corollae ligulas aequantibus, 

 exterioribus scabridis rigide ciliatis, duplo longiores quam tubus, 

 bracteolis squamis conformibus vestitus ; flores flavi, radii ligulaa 

 ca. 17, subtus discolores ; achaenia dense sericeo-villosa, pappi 

 squamis biseriatis, lanceolatis, setaceo-acuminatis. 



Hab.: Transvaal; grassy places, near Belfast, approx. alt. 1,700- 

 1,850 meters, Dec, H. Bolus, 12067. 



This approaches to the genus Berkheyopsis O. Hoffmann, and 

 perhaps would be regarded as such by some writers. But I have 

 been unable to find any valid characters by which to separate it from 

 Gazania. 



