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Allied to M. quinqueflora , DC., which it closely resembles in the set and 
shape of the 1-seriate petaloid involucral scales, but the leaves are very 
different; the heads are more loosely clustered and their indument is more 
woolly ; and the pappus-bristles are not broadened upwards. By reason 
of the heads being completely sessile it seems best placed in the § Capitatae. 
Metalasia Schlechteri, L. Bolus (Eu-Metalasia. § Capitatae). Fruticulus 
rigidus, ut videtur ca. 20 cm. altus vel ultra, ramis ramulisque adscenden- 
tibus vel erectis, ad 3 mm. diam., junioribus tenuiter cano-araneosis ; 
folia patentia vel reflexa torta oblongo-linearia obtusa, minute mucronata, 
dorsaliter mox glaberrima, saturate viridia, saepius 2 mm. longa vel 
minora, axillis saepissime gemmiferis; capitula 3 — 4-fl., sessilia gracillima 
cylindracea, ad 1 cm. longa, medio 1-5 mm. diam., ca. 4 — 16 capitato- 
aggregata, arete conferta; involucri squamae erectae, 5 — 6-seriatae, acute 
acuminatae vel rarius acutae, series 3 — 4 inferiores in albo tomento 
absconditae, apicibus brunneis exceptis, series 2 — 3 superiores petaloideae 
albae vel pallidissime roseae, 8 mm. longae, vix ad 1-5 mm. latae; pappi 
setae barbellatae, corollis longiores; corolla gracillima, 5 mm. longa, 
segmentis lanceolatis, vix 1 mm. longis; antherae filamentis duplo 
longiores vel ultra. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Paarl Div., mountains near 
Bain’s Kloof, alt. 1000 ft., fl. Feb. 1897, R. Schlechter, 10243. 
This species is readily distinguished from all the others in the subgenus 
Eu-Metalasia by the long slender heads and the acuminate involucral 
scales. 
Metalasia Phillipsii, L. Bolus (Eu-Metalasia. § Capitatae). Fruticulus 25 cm. 
altus vel ultra, ramis erectis vel adscendentibus, glaberrimis, ad 3 mm. 
diam. ; folia patentia vel reflexa torta, oblonga vel lineari-oblonga, mucro- 
nata, dorsaliter glaberrima, ad 3 mm., saepissime 2 mm., longa, axillis 
gemmiferis, fasciculo stellam formante; capitula 3-fl., 5 — 6 mm. longa, 
sessilia, in glomerulas basi parcissime tomentosas aggregata, glomerulis 
saepe 6-capitatis, foliis paucis coloratis involucratis, breviter peduncu- 
latis, umbellatim dispositis, “umbella” 0-8 — 1-5 cm. diam.; involucri 
squamae ca. 4-seriatae, acutae vel subacutae, inferiores oblongae rubi- 
cundae, inferiores 3-seriatae, laete roseae, intimae ca. 1 mm. latae ; pappi 
setae serrulatae, superne inconspicue incrassatae. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Ceres Div., Matroosberg, near 
Laaken Vlei, alt. 5500 ft., Nov. 1917, E. P. Phillips, 1892 (South African 
Museum Herb., No. 11692). 
This appears to be closely allied to the little-known M. capitata, Less., 
from which, however, it differs in having the upper involucrating leaves 
well developed, and the petaloid involucral scales in three series. More- 
over, in M. capitata the branches are described as being tomentose while 
