Raoulia m'kayi, Buch., n.s.

A slender open-foliaged plant. Stems 2–3 inches long, prostrate. Branches ½–1 inch long, erect or depressed. Leaves membraneous, spreading, ½–¾ inch long, narrow, linear-oblong, round on the tip, apiculate, covered on the upper third on both sides with white, loose, silky wool, veins reticulate. Heads small, ⅛ inch across, involucral scales ¼ inch long, in 3 series of 8–9 each series, linear, or narrow-oblong, acuminate or obtuse, scarcely radiating at tip, inner series very narrow, the whole shining, pale-yellow, florets numerous, 50–60, receptacle flat, pappus hairs few, slender, pilose, not thickened at the tips. Achene glabrous, with a thickened areole at the base.

The silvery open foliage and scattered golden-coloured flowers of this small swamp-plant, as it is usually found on dark peaty bottoms, is very attractive. It is evidently in its general features, and in the pappus hairs not being swollen at the tips, allied to Raoulia tenuicaulis, Hook. fil., but the large reticulate leaves and numerous florets determine its claim as a new species of Raoulia, if the large foliage does not ally it more closely to Gnaphalium.