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Suffrutex viscidulo-hispidulus pilis crispulis ; rami diffusi elongati 
foliosi, ad 20 cm. longi, internodiis 0 - 4 — 1‘5 cm. longis; folia patentia 
demum reflexa, oblonga vel rarius late linearia, basi vix angustata, 
subamplexicaulia, rarius bre viter decurrentia, obtusissima subpungenti- 
mucronata, marginibus saepe undulatis, glandulis sessilibus nitentibus 
sparsa, P5 — 3 cm. longa, 0 - 5 — 1 cm. lata; capitula solitaria apicibus 
ramorum et brevium ramulorum, folio supremo approximato, P3 cm. 
longa ; involucrum, parte globoso, 0’8 — 1 cm. diam., squamis exteriori- 
bus foliaceis, linearibus vel lineari-oblongis, saepe paullo angustatis 
infra medium, basi dilatatis, interioribus chartaceis discoloratis, ovatis 
vel lanceolatis setaceo-acuminatis ciliatis, ad 11 cm. longis; recepta- 
culum subconvexum dense setosum ; achaenia villosa, 0T5 cm. longa; 
pappi squamae 10, interiores aristatae, aristis squamis ipsis brevioribus. 
Kalahari Region: Orange Free State; Sinitskraal 809, Boshof Dist., 
fi. April, J. Burtt Davy (Colonial Herbarium, No. 10,118). Bechuana- 
land, near Mafeking, fl. March, F. Bolus (Bolus Herbarium, No. 6427). 
Very closely allied to G. pectidea, Harv., but differs in having 
broader, usually oblong, very obtuse leaves, always solitary much 
larger heads which terminate the branches and short branchlets. 
Plate XIV, B. 
Pro tea Tugwelliae 1 , Phillips (Proteaceae-Proteeae § Pinifoliae ) a P. pityphylla, 
et P. witzenbergiana, foliis et bracteis involucri distincte pubescentibus 
differt. 
Rami glabri; ramuli glabri vel paullo pilosi. Folia 4'5 — 8 cm. 
longa, supra 1 — 2 mm. lata, linearia, apice mucronata, subobtusa, basi 
attenuata, glabra. Capitulum solitaria, terminalia, 3'7 cm. longum, 
circa 4 5 cm. latum ; receptaculum convexum. Involucri bracteae 
5-seriatae, pubescentes ; extimae in aciem foliosum longum productae ; 
interiores lineari-spathulatae, concavae, calyce longiores. Calycis tubus 
1-8 cm. longus, supra glaber, membranaceus, trinervosus ; infra dilatatus, 
5-nervosus, supra villosus, infra glaber ; laminae 1 cm. longae, aliquando 
glabrae aliquando paullo pilosae, apice triaristatae barbataeque ; aristae 
laterales 2'5 mm. longae, villosae ; media P5 mm. longa, filiformis, 
villosa. Stamina omnia fertilia, subsessilia ; antherae 5'5 mm. longae, 
lineares, apice glandibus 6 mm. longis ovatis obtusis instructae. 
Ovarium 2 mm. longum, pilis longis vestitum; stylus 1'8 cm. longus, 
subfalcatus, supra semiteres, infra compressus, basi planus crassusque ; 
stigma 5 mm. longum, apice obtusum. 
Cape Province: Prince Albert Division, Zwartberg Pass, June, 
Anna M. Tugwell (Bolus Herbarium, No. 13382). 
This species resembles P. pityphylla, Phill. and P. witzenbergiana, 
i By permission of the Trustees of the South African Museum. 
