GNAPHALIUM AND XEKANTHEMUM. 559 
11. M. uniflora, foliis ovatis mucronatis laxe quadrifa- 
riam imbricatis, floribus subsolitariis, involucri radiis lan- 
ceolatis mucronatis, pappo setaceo colorato basi coalito. 
Hab. ad Caput Bonse Spei. Labillardiere. (v. s. sp. 
in Herb. Lamb.) 
Frutex erectus, rigidus, Diosmce imhricatce facie, Flores 
5-pl6 omnibus majores, radio niveo. 
\% M. phylicoides^ foliis ovali-oblongis obtuse mucronu- 
latis villosis 4-fariam imbricatis subtus concavis, capitulis 
globosis, involucri radiis ovalibus obtusis, pappo capillari 
basi soluto. 
Gnaphalium phylicoides, Niven MSS. 
Hob. ad Promoiitorium Bonae Spei, in locis siccis elevatis. 
Niven. V^. (v. s. sp. in Herb. Lamb.) 
Frutex pedalis, erectus, rigid us, Phylicde facie. Flores 
capitati, radio niveo. 
The genus Metalasia was separated by Mr Brown* from 
Anteimaria, in which it had been included by Gaertner. 
Its habit and character are so widely different from Anten- 
7iaria, as limited by Mr Brown, that we are surprised so 
distinguished a botanist as Gaertner should have united 
them. The leaves of most of the species of this genus are 
convex and smooth underneath, and concave and woolly on 
the upper surface, but by a peculiar twisting they become 
as if resupinate. That it is the upper surface which is con- 
cave and woolly, and not the under, will be at once seen, 
by examining the situation of the young leaves. In M. pun- 
gens the leaves have no twisting, and there the natural po* 
sition of the leaves is evident. 
* Linn. Trans, vol. 12, p. 122, 
