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frequently ascending or laxly spreading ; leaves subsessile or borne 

 on ^4 inches long, white or cream-coloured hirsute petioles which 

 merge into a broadened and sheathing densely white-cobwebby base ; 

 blade narrowly or broadly eUiptic-oblong, obovate, or obovate-oblong,- 

 1-7 inches long, |-3 inches broad, subacute, obtuse, apiculate 

 or rounded at the apex, regularly or obliquely attenuate at the base 

 (rarely subcordate), thin-textured, with scattered deciduous appressed 

 soft whitish hairs on the dark dull upper surface, more hairy beneath, 

 especially at the midrib and its three to seven pairs of lateral nerves, but 

 not felted ; margin entire or obscurely and irregularly denticulate, closely 

 and either long or short and softly setose. Scapes sohtary, or in 

 twos to sixes, ebracteate, closely and shortly white or cream 

 shaggy-haired, stout or slender, somewhat thickened at the apex, 

 3 inches to over i foot long. Involucral bracts 2-4-seriate, 

 narrowly acuminate, shaggy and silky haired. Flower-head small, 

 J-iJ inch across, the ray-florets erect, narrow, yellow or pinkish, 

 shorter or equalling or slightly exceeding the longest involucral bracts. 

 Pappus rufous. 



Distrihution. Coast Region. Cape Div. ; Cape Peninsula ; Devil's 

 Peak, July 20, 1815, Burchell, 8477 ! 600 feet, May 1908, Dummer, 

 1379 • vicinity of Cape Town, Jan. 3, 1811, Burchell, 504 ! Cape Flats, 

 between Cape Town and Simon's Bay, July 25, 1815, Burchell, 8562 ! 

 Table Mountain; eastern slopes, near Kirstenbosch, Feb. 3, 1896, 

 Wolley Dod, 818 ! western and other slopes, Sieher ! Pappe ! hills 

 west of Simon's Town, April 4, 1896, Wolley Dod, 1022 i Uniondale 

 Div. ; Long Kloof, eastern end, between the sources of the Kromme 

 River and Wagenbooms River, March 10, 1814, Burchell, 4893 ! 

 Long Kloof, between Avontuur and the sources of the Keurbooms 

 River, March 18, 1814, Burchell, 5054 ! Uitenhage Div. ; on the 

 Vanstaadensberg nearest to Galgebosch, Feb. 14, 1814, Burchell, 

 4731 ! on the sand-hills by the Zwartkops River, and on the hills of 

 Adow, Aug., Zeyher, 9 ! Port Ehzabeth Div. ; between Drostly Farm 

 and the Lead Mine (near Maitland River), Jan. 27, 1814, Burchell, 

 4480 ! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, Sept., MacOwan, 287 ! Stocken- 

 stroom Div. ; Katberg, 4000-5000 feet, Nov., Drege ! Queenstown 

 Div. ; Hangklip Mountain, Queenstown, 5500 feet^ Nov. 1893, 

 Galpin, 1637! Komgha Div. ; Bazeia, 2000-2500 feet, Nov., Baur, 

 374 ! British Kaffraria (i860), Cooper, 172 ! 



Eastern Region. Tembuland; between Morley and the Umtata 

 River, 1000-2000 feet. May, Drege ! Natal, Gerrard, 1042 ! grassy 

 slopes near Inanda, 1800 feet, Oct. and Nov. 1883, Wood, 179 ! 474 ! 

 1133 ! Van Reenen, 5000-6000 feet, Nov. 15, 1892, Wood, 4772 ! 

 Pietermaritzburg, Oct. 1883, Wilms, 2077 ! Lourenzo Marques, 100 

 feet, Nov. 30, 1897, Schlechter, 11533 ! 



Kalahari Region. Transvaal. Gold Fields, 1870, Baines \ 

 Modderfontein, Oct. 1900, Conrath, 538 ! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 

 6112 ! stony mountain slopes near the town Lydenburg, Sept. 1895,. | 

 Wilms, 778! Orange River Colony, 1862, Cooper, 2569! 



