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rubicundi glabriusculi. Folia imbricata, conferta, vix un- 

 guicularia, ramulorum recentiorum sericea. Spica sessilis. 

 Bracteee foliacese. Involucri foliola subulata, demum 

 glabriuscula. Calyx densissime barbatus, villis brevibus 

 sericeis ; lamina interiori duplo majori, villis marginalibus 

 arete inflexis. Stigma planiusculum, papilla centrali. 

 Squamulce liypogynce quatuor, lineari-subulatse. 



*9. S.j5i^?"(2mfife&, involucre tetraphyllo : foliolis acumi- 

 natis pedicellos subsequantibus, spica erecta solitaria sessili 

 oblongo-pyramidali foliis semuncialibus duplo longiore. 



Hab. In Africse Australis montibus, prope Zwellendam. 

 Gul. Bowburyh, M.D. (v. s. in Herb. Lambert, et Soc. 

 Linn.) 



Desc. Frutew erectus, ramosissimus, ramis ramulisque 

 umbellatis, pubescentibus. Folia confertissima, modice 

 patentia, stricta v. pariim incurva, villosiuscula, callo acuto, 

 mucroniformi. Spica densa, subuncialis. Bracteee foliacese, 

 involucra sequantes. Involucra pubescentia, foliolis e 

 latiore basi subulatis, apice patulis, exterior! pariim an- 

 gustiore. Calyx lamina interiori pariim majori, villis 

 marginalibus simplicibus. Stigma concavum, papilla 

 centrali. Squamulce hypogynce lineari-subulatse. Becepta- 

 culum barbatum. 



*10. S. joo/ysfocy^ya, involucro tetraphyllo: foliolis apice 

 patulis, spicis nutantibus aggregatis pedunculatis, foliis 

 uncialibus curvatis. 



Hab. In Africse Australis montibus. G-ul. Boxburgh, [i« 

 M.D. (v. s. in Herb. Lambert, et Soc. Linn.) 



Desc. Frutex erectus, ramosissimus. Bami ramulique 

 umbeUati, rubicundi, ultimi pubescentes. Folia conferta, 

 patula, subsigraoideo-curvata, villosa, mucrone acutissimo, 

 novella sericea. Spicce 4 — 6, refiexse, sesquiunciales, brevi- 

 ter pedunculatse, ramulis umbellatis longioribus stipatse. 

 Bracteee pedicellis ter longiores. Involucra foliolis sub- 

 sequalibus, concavis, lanceolato-subulatis, acuminatis. Calyx 

 subsequalis. Stigma planiusculum, papilla centrali. Nux 

 brevissime pedicellata, tenuissime pubescens. 



