PLATE 363. 
EuKYops i'EDUNcrLATUS, X. ]']. l)H()\v\ ( Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 147). 
Natural (Jrder, ( 'nAii'osiTj;. 
All erect }jlaiit bearing ^-ellow Hoovers on long peduncles. Stems 6 inches to 
3 feet long, sonietinies branched, densely leafy, glabrous or sparingly Avoolly near 
the apex. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, linear, subcarnose, mostly trilobed, 1)ut 
sometimes bilobed or simple, glal>roiis, l i to o inches long, to h line wide. 
Peduncles terminal, 1-headed, naked, glabrous, (> to 10 inches long. Heads 
radiate, many flowered, 7 to 10 lines diameter, iiivolucral scales 10 to 12, ovate to 
oyate-oblong, acute, minutely fringed at apex, connate at base for about one third 
of their length, 3 to 3^ lines long, 1 to 1:1 line wide. Receptacle toothed; ray 
florets ligulate, minutely tiidentate at apex, o lines long, 1 line wide ; disk florets 
tubiilar, narrowed at Ijase, ;j-toothed, li- to 2 lines long. Pappus bristles short, 
deciduous. Styles glabrous, style-arms minutely glandular at apex. Ovary 
thickly covered with short white hairs. Ripe achenes not seen. 
Habitat : Natai. : Oliver's Wook Rass, danuary, Woofi No. ^601 ; Hlatikulu 
Hill, 0,000 to 7,000 feet alt., January, Evans, 397; Van Reenen's Pass, 5,000 to 
6,000 feet alt., Wood, 8715. .\lso in Transvaal, Rehmann, 6133; and in O.R. 
Colony, Cooper, 2522. 
The genus Eunjupf; includes about 3U species, one of which is found in 
Abyssinia and Arabia, the remainder are South African, and of these 4 or 5 are 
found in Natal, l)ut only one of the Natal species attains the size of a small 
shrul3. The plant here described does not appear to be very common, and has 
only been met with at high altitudes, where it is sometimes found in rather large 
patches. 
Fig. 1, involucre;^ 2, an involucral scale; 3, disk floret; 4, two stamens; 
5, style and stigmas ; 6, pappus bristle ; nil enlarged. 
