56 COMPOSIT ( Harv.) [ Corymbium. 
nerves readily distinguish it. Drege and £. § Z.’s specimens are indiscriminately 
named. Lvs. 6-8 inches long, 3~4 lines wide, often falcate; the narrower one-nerved, 
the broader faintly 3-nerved. Invol. 4 lines long. 
4, C. cymosum (E. Mey.); glabrous ; stem bluntly angular, smooth, 
mostly shorter than the leaves; leaves very long, linear, acute, with 
many, scarcely prominent nerves, and a roughish margin; corymb 
very dense, fasciculate ; the glabrous involucres subsessile. DC. J. ¢. p. 89. 
(excl. sp. ex Drege). 
Has. Hottentotsholland, Mundt! Eastern Districts, Burchell, fide DO. Stellen- 
bosch and Swellendam, £. ¢ Z./ Stellenbosch, W. H.H. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Readily known from C. glabrum by its densely crowded inflorescence. Leaves 
8-16 inches long, 3-4 lines wide. Scales of calyculus pointed. Drege’s specimens 
marked “C. cymosum,” so far as I have seen, belong to C. scabrum, B. 
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: wee 5. C. scabrum (Linn. f. Suppl. 392); stem terete, densely muricated ; 
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leaves linear or filiform, flattish or convolute, glabrous, minutely sha- 
grined ; corymb dense ; invol. scales scabrous and glandular, viscidulous. 
DC. 1.¢.89. Thunb. Cap. 729. Lam. ill. t. 723, f.1. Burm. Afr. t.70,f. 1. 
V.Ak. 8. filiforme (Th.); leaves very narrow, filiform, semi-terete. C. filiforme, 
Linn. f. DC. 1. c. C. cymosum, Drege! in Herb. Hk., D., Sd. Zey.f 2739. 
Var. y. luteum; corolla (said to be) yellow. C. luteum, FE. M./ DC. 1. c. p. 89. 
Has. Round Capetown and Stellenbosch; at the Paarl, Drege; Worcester, E. Z.; 
Caledon, Pappe, &c.; Uit., Zey./ Var. y. at the Paarl, Drege! (Hb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Leaves 4-12 inches long, 4 line to 2-3 lines wide, variable in the same tuft. Stems 
mostly taller than the lvs. very rough. Flowers pink or pale; in var. y “ yellow” 
(perhaps primrose colour’). find Dreges specimens of C. luteum quite as scabrid 
as those of our var. 8, and in the dry state undistinguishable. 
6. C. villosum (Less. in Linn. 1831, p. 691); stem terete, villous and 
glandularly muricated ; leaves linear, acute, flat, sub-falcate, on both 
sides pilose and glandularly muricated; invol. scales glandularly muri- 
cated, bearded and pilose. DC.l.c.89. C. villosum and C. hirtum, Th. 
Cap. 729, 730. C. hirsutum, Eck. 
Has. Cape, Thunb., E.§ Z.! Dutoitskloof and Piquetberg, Drege! Stellenbosch, 
W. H. H. Bamskloof, Hutton! Zwartberg, Caledon, Pappe/ (Hb. D., Sd., Hk., &e.) 
Leaves 4-6 inches long, 3-4 lines wide ; cauline long or short, but always linear. 
Corymb dense, Exterior scales of the invol. nearly half as long as the inner ones. 
7. C. congestum e Mey.); stem somewhat angular, hispid and glan- 
dularly muricated ; leaves broadly-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, acute, 
on both sides glandularly pubescent ; corymb dense ; invol. scales 
densely glandular, sharply 3-toothed. DC. 1. c.89. Harv. Thes, t. 69. 
Has. Drakeensteinberg, 2~300 ft. Drege! Worcester, E. § Z./ (Hb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Leaves broader and more membranous than in other species, 5-6 inches long, 
7-1 inch wide. Cauline leaves clasping, oblongo-lanceolate. Division of the corymb 
few-flowered. 
TRIBE I.—EUPATORIACEE. 
Flower-heads discoid, all the flowers tubular. Style-branches long, 
exserted, terete, obtuse, or thickened at the point, minutely granulated on 
the outer surface,—Leayes mostly o ite, rarely alternate. (Gen. 
vilX) ee : Y opposite, rarely ( 
