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simplices vel semel terve divisi, subtetragoni, graciles, glabri vel 

 apices versus pilosi ; folia opposita erecta imbricata subulata acumina- 

 tissima gracilia, marginibus incurvis, dorso rotundata, junioribus 

 pilosis apice barbatis demum glabrescentibus, 0"9-l*3 cm. longa, 

 O'06-O'l cm. lata; flores 4-meri saepius (an semper?) in capitulis 

 5-fl., solitariis, vel capifculis in glomerulis 2-3 aggregatis ; bracteae 

 involucrantes 5, e basi lata lanceolatae acuminatissimae parce pilosae 

 substriatas, pallidae, 0-35-0*4 cm. longse ; receptaculum tubulosum 

 apice parum ampliatum, 1-1*3, vel, post anthesin, usque ad 1*7 cm. 

 longum ; sepala ovata vel oblonga 0*4 cm. longa, extus sericeo-villosa, 

 intus subglabra ; petala bipartita, segmentis oblongis circ. 0*15 cm. 

 longis ; fructus ovatus sericeo-villosus subsessilis, 0*4 cm. longus. 



Hab. : Cape Colony, Oudtshoorn district, on the summit of the 

 Zwartbergen, near the Pass, approx. alt. 1,725 meters, in rocky 

 places, Dec, Frank Bolus (No. 11631 of herb. Bolus) (in herb. 

 Kew, &c). 



The habit resembles that of G. linoides, Wikstr., but is otherwise 

 very different ; the flowers are cream-coloured. 



