204 * COMPOSITE (Harv.) _ [Rhynea. 
spinescent ; leaves alternate and opposite, crowded, linear-filiform, ob- 
tuse, entire, closely pubescent or silky ; heads on slender pedicels, 2-3 
times as long as the leaves, either axillary or sub-umbellate or solitary 
at the ends of the twigs; outer inv.-scales silky with a narrow mem- 
branous margin ; ray-fl. very minute. . aspalathoides, Drege! ex pte. 
5 uL > oat Kl. Namaqualand, Drege / Gamke R., Zey.! 859. (Herb. 
Very like ce last, but with longer leaves and different inflorescence. Leaves 3-5 
lines long, slender. Pedicels nearly 3-1 inch long. In Hb. Sond. a specimen of 
this species from Drege is marked aspalathoides. Zeyher’s plant (859) is more robust, 
with solitary pedicels, nearly 1 inch long, densely silky. 
16. E. glaber (Th.! Cap. 724); leaves opposite and alternate, very 
short, linear, sub-trigonous, patent, obtuse, glabrous or puberulous, punc- 
tate; heads at the ends of minute twigs solitary or few together, but form- 
ing leafy racemes or spikes toward the ends of the branches, sub-sessile or 
pedicellate ; outer inv.-scales (mostly purple) glabrescent, with a narrow 
membranous border; ray-fl. very minute. Less. Syn. 269. Tarcho- 
nanthus ericoides, Linn. f. 
Var. a. glaber; adult leaves quite glabrous, or nearly so; pedicels short. Z. 
glaber, DO.! 1, ¢. 148. 
Var. 8. pubescens; leaves puberulous ; pedicels 1-2 together, scarcely }-uncial. 
E. microphyllus, DC./ 1. ¢. : 
Var. y. laricinus; leaves gland-dotted, glabrescent; pedicels scarcely longer than 
leaf. £. laricinus, DC.! 
Var. 6. sessilifiorus (Sond.); heads sub-sessile, in terminal spikes. JZ. sessiliflorus, 
Sond. MS. Si 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Little Namaqualand, and near the Gariep, Burchell, 
Drege! Wyley! Var. y. near the Fish River, Drege! Albany, Bowker! Var. 6., 
Cc. E. dé Z.! Zn. N. n. E. 23. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
ves very minute, commonly 1-2 lines long, with occasional subtending leaves 
3-4 lines long, the young ones and twigs minutely puberulous ; the older either gla- 
brate or retaining their downy surface, all more or less dotted. Pedicels 1-6 lines 
long. I cannot keep the above varieties specifically apart. The aspect of all is the 
same, and the pubescence most inconstant ; the length of pedicel partly depends on 
the advanced or nascent state of flowering. 
17, E. microcephalus (DC.! 1. c. 148); leaves opposite, tufted on 
the sterile twigs, linear-filiform, slender, glabrous or puberulous; pedi- 
cels solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, longer than the leaf, form- 
ing a leafy raceme ; heads very small, 5—8-fi, ; outer inv.-scales oblong, 
glabrescent (purple) with a narrow border ; ray-fl. minute. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege? (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
: More slender than &. glaber, with much smaller fl,-heads, but otherwise very 
similar, and perhaps a mere starved variety. Leaves 2-3 lines long, on the fertile 
twigs in sub-distant pairs. Heads 1 line long. 
Sub-Tribe 4, GNaPHaLIE®. (Gen. 76-106.) 
LXXVI. RHYNEA, DC. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous, discoid ; the disc-fl. (about 15) perfect, 
5-toothed ; the marginal (about 5) filiform, female. Recept. bearing 
linear, deciduous pales: between the flowers. Jnv. imbricate, the outer 
scales downy, obtuse, the inner produced into an oblong, spreading, 
