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A handsome plant, remarkable for its dense heads of flowers, large 
persistent bracts, and very shaggy calyx, with setaceous teeth. 
74. Petalactella, N. E. Brown Deponi Ser Vii genus 
novum]. Capit tula heterogama, disciformia; floribus in ambitu 
9 2-4 fertilibus, in disco sterilibus. - acl um campanulatum, 
bracteis sub 3-seriatis, eiie flores feemineos subtendentibus, 
interioribus breviter radiantibus. eceptaculum parvum in disco 
nudum. Corolle fl. 9 Ai reas: tubulose, minute dentate, fl. 
regulares, tubulosz, limbo anguste campanulato 5-fido. Anthere basi 
brevissime caudato sagittate. Stylus fl. d indivisus, fl. 9 bifidus, 
ramis linearibus obtusis vel subtruncatis. Achenia fl. 9 subtrigona ; 
d subnulla. Pappi sete fl. g pauce, l-seriatz, libere, apice 
incrassato-penicilatz ; fl. 9 nulle vel interdum 1-2. Fruticulus 
ericoideus. Folia alterna, parva. Capitula parva ad apices ramorum 
gregata. 
P.Woodii, V. E. Brown; nana, lignosa, prostrata, ramis brevibus 
confertis, foliis confertis imbricatis vel subpatentibus linearibus sub- 
trigonis rigidis supra albo-canalieulatis obtusis vel minnte apiculatis 
circa 5—4 s ibtendentibus, squamis interioribus biseriatis oblongis basi 
orem apice obtusis vel subacutis bbdetiticntatie breviter radian- 
tibas idis glabris vel dorso parce lanatis marginibus ad medium 
iMt bri teHa, disci floribus 10-12 sterilibus, pappi setis 4-6 apice 
pulchre plumosis, acheniis fl. radii obovatis subtr rigonis vel plano- 
convexis papillato-seabris, 1—£-setosis vel ealvis. 
Habitat.—RWocky v cum Harrismith, Orange Free State, at about 
5,000 ft. alt. Wood, 
Planta 2~3 poll. ip Folia 11-21 € longa, 4 lin. lata.  /nffores- 
centia i ae diam. Capitulum 1 poll. diam. 
ral appearance this t en little composite bears some 
riers to Helichrysum ericefolium, Less, but seems to be æ 
dwarfer and more woody plant, and in the structure of its tlowerheads 
is totally different, being quite unique in the group Gnaphaliee, and 
perhaps in the whole order, in having the female filiform florets in the 
axils of the outermost involuere scales, and separated from the male or. 
disk florets by the two inner rows of involucral scales, which merely 
surround the disk florets. The nearest allied genus is Petalacte, im 
which the female florets are subtended by the inner involucral bracts- 
and placed i in the same series as the outer male florets, and the male 
florets in the centre of the disk are surrounded by 3 or 4 scales like 
those of the involucre, but there are no florets in the axils of the outer 
involucral scales. Another difference is the form of the scales of the 
involucre; in Petalacte they are all alike, with a densely woolly, 
linear claw, and a broadly ‘spathulate or orbicular, radiating tip; 
woolly, and with erect (not radiating), acute tips, and the inner vend 
oblong, narrowed at the base, nearly glabrous, with shortly radiating 
obtuse or subacute ti 
75. Ceropegia Rendallii, V. E. Brown [Ae volubilis 
gracilis glabra, foliis ovatis acutis vel lineari-oblongis subobtusis vel 
abrupte acutis mucronulatis petiolatis, pedunculis arb bracteis 
subulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, sepalis subulatis, coroll tubo 
