Nidorella.} COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 91 
Has. Wolvekop, Caledon R., and Magalisberg, Burke §: Zey.! Mohlamba Range, 
Natal, Dr. Sutherland! 5-6000f. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) . 
Stem 1-2f, high, either quite simple, or split into many very erect appressed 
branches. Lowest leaves (including the long, tapering petiole) 2—3 inches long, 
spathulate ; upper ones }, 1, 14 inch long, 1-2 lines wide ; those of the corymb 
4-2 in. long, ovato-lanceolate. All parts rough to the touch, exuding gummy 
matter. Heads minute. The bilabiate corollas of the ray-fl., and few scales of 
pappus are irregular in the genus, but the habit and other characters are those of 
Nidorella. Disc-fl. sterile, their anthers scale-tipped, broad ; stigmata perfect.— 
Dr. Sutherland’s specimen has rather broader and more acute leaves, but does not 
otherwise differ. 
15. N. exilis (DC. 1. c. 324); “stem herbaceous, lignescent at base, 
erect, depauperated, naked above ; branches few, long, one-headed ; 
leaves linear, subacute, quite entire, all, as well as the branches, covered 
with minute, glandular pubescence, the lower longer, and pilose with 
long, scattered, white bristles; heads solitary, on long peduncles; inv.- 
scales subimbricate, flat, linear, acute, as long as the dise ; rays 8~1o, 
in the dry state revolute ; achenes villous.” DC. 
-Has. Clanwilliam, #. § Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
Of this I have only seen a specimen from which the fi.-heads have disappeared. 
Stem 6-12 inches high, slender. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 1 line wide, thickish, 
rigid, one-nerved. 
16. N.? Gariepina (DC. 1. c. 324); suffruticose, divaricately much- 
branched, terete, hispid with spreading bristles ; leaves linear, obtuse, 
one-nerved, on both sides hispid and setose ; fl.-branches shortly naked 
at the summit ; inv.-scales linear, acuminate, pluriseriate, hispid, scari- 
ous and ciliate at the margin ; achenes slightly downy ; rays minute. 
Has. Dry places near the Gariep, Drege! (Hb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Very diverse in habit from others of this genus, resembling an Aster of the sub. 
gen. Felicia, except in its ray-flowers. Leaves spreading, 5-7 lines long, 1 line wide. 
Recept. quite naked. Invol. at length reflexed. Pappus copious. 
Doubtful Species. 
N. floribunda (Lehm. Hort. Hamb. 1851. Linn. XXV. p. 310); 
“stem shrubby, erect, much-branched, pubescent ; leaves short-petiol- 
ed, oblong-lanceolate, serrulato-dentate, veiny, glabrescent, beneath and 
en the margins rough with short pubescence; cormyb many-headed, 
fastigiate ; rays equalling the disc, bluntly 3-toothed ; young achenes 
silky.” Walp. Ann. 5. p. 192. 
Cult. at Hamburg, from Cape seeds. A garden var. of NV. auriculata? 
N. Sprengelii (Sch. B. in Walp. Rep. 2. 958); half-shrubby, roughly 
pubescent ; stem corymbose, densely leafy ; lvs. oblong-linear-cuneate, 
3-nerved, the lower toothed, upper entire, with axillary leaf-tufts ; 
heads numerous ; inv.-scales oblong. 
Has. Near Melkout-Kraal, Hb. Zeyher. 
N. Kraussii (Sch. B. 1. c.); corymb many-headed, compound ; stem 
suffruticose ; lvs. ovate-elliptical, very entire or rarely toothed; the 
whole plant canescent with short hairs. 
Has. Cape, Krauss. 
