Nidorella.] COMPOSIT& ( Harv.) 89 
6. N. linifolia (DC. 1. ¢. 322); herbaceous, erect, simple, nearly 
glabrous, stem scaberulous ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, am- 
plexicaul, the upper sessile, entire, the lower tapering to the base, 
distantly callous-toothed above the middle; corymb compound, dense; 
inv.-scales linear-oblong, subacute, glabrous, ciliolate. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Drege! (Herb. Sond., Hk.) 
A slender, virgate herb, with long, narrow leaves. Lower leaves 3-4 inches 
long, 3-4 lines wide ; upper 1-14 inch long, 1-2 lines wide. Rays very minute. 
7. N. solidaginea (DC. 1. c. 322); root woody ; stems herbaceous, 
erect, subsimple, below sparingly setose, above closely and minutely 
scabrid-pubescent; leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, entire, acute, 
scabrid-pubescent, the upper ones broad-based, the lower tapering at 
base, setose beneath and more or less ciliate; corymb compound; the 
pedicels and acute, 1-nerved invol.-scales scabrid-pubescent ; rays nar- 
row, sharply 3-toothed, longer than the involucre. 
Has. Witbergen and Stormberg, Drege! (Herb. Hook.) 
Stems 2 feet high, rodlike, rib-striate. Lvs. 14-2 inches long, 2 lines wide. 
8. N. polycephala (DC. 1. c. 323) ; “herbaceous, erect, paniculately 
much branched, the whole plant covered with short, greyish pubescence ; 
cauline-leaves half-clasping, elongate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3- 
nerved; rameal linear, 1-nerved, all quite entire, or 1-2 toothed ; 
corymb of each branch compound, dense ; invol.-scales acute, puberu- 
lous.” DC. l. 
Has. Betw.Omtendoand Omsamceulo, Drege! Orange State, Cooper, 1035. (Hb. D.) 
‘Two f. high. Cauline leaves 3 inches long, 3 lines wide ; rameal 1 inch long, 
1 line wide. Rays small, obtusely 3-toothed, paler than the disc.” DC. Mr. Cooper's 
specimen agrees very well with the above description of DC. save that the leaves are 
now and then unidentate. 
9. N. foetida (DC. 1. c. 323); stem erect, herbaceous, simple, hispid ; 
leaves densely crowded, linear-cuneate, tapering to the base, obtuse or 
subacute, very entire, scabrid on both sides; axils mostly leaf-tufted ; 
corymbs panicled, dense ; invol. scales linear, puberulous or glabrate ; 
rays very minute, obtuse. Hrigeron factidum, Linn. Inula foetida, Th.! 
Cap. 667. Nid. foliosa, Cass. 
Var. 8, hyssopifolia ; more slender, with less crowded leaves and smaller heads. 
N. hyssopifolia, DC. l. e. ‘ 
Has. Dry hills round Capetown and Kamp’s Bay ; Verloren Vlay, Wallich. 8, 
ae ke) and in Uitenhage, Albany, and Kaffraria, Z. Z. (Herb. Thunb., 
1-2 ft. high, simple, or divided from the base, the lower part of the stems densely 
covered with patent, tufted leaves; the upper part rather bare. Leaves 1-14 inch 
long, 2 lines wide, pale green, thick, with an immersed nerve. Pubescence rough 
and short. Rays paler than the disc, and scarcely so long. Var. 8, which I have 
seen in Herb. Sond. and received from Gerr. § M’K. 261, does not materially differ 
from the normal form. 
10. N. Hottentotica (DC. 1. c. 323); stem lignescent at base, erect, 
villous or woolly ; leaves entire, thinly or densely woolly, above some- 
times becoming glabrate, the lowest obovate, tapering into a petiole ; 
the medial oblong-cuneate, obtuse, narrow at base, the uppermost broad- 
