Nestlera.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 297 
Has. Sneeuweberg, 3-4000 f., Drege! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Branches trailing, 3-6 inches long, leafy throughout; emitting short, erect, densely 
leafy ramuli. Leaves 2-3 lines long, not 3 a line diam. Heads 4 lines long. Inv. 
glabrous, pale horn-colour. Fimbrils subulate, rather longer than the achenes. 
Achenes of the ray pilose ; of the dise glabrous; pappus in both of many, narrow, 
toothed, acute, white, short scales. Style-branches truncate, bearded at the apex. 
Sect. 2. NusrLera (Less.) Pappus coroniform, toothed. (Sp. 6-11.) 
6. N. tricephala (Harv.); stem slender, shrubby, dichotomous, nude, 
the twigs canescent; leaves alternate, linear, obtuse, spreading, above 
concave and tomentose-canescent, beneath green, viscidulous, subpu- 
bescent ; heads 3 together at the ends of the branches, sessile, oblong ; 
inv. scales appressed, obtuse, brown-margined ; pappus (fide DC.) crown- 
like, toothed. Relhania triflora, E. Mey. Polychetia tricephala, DC. 
l. c. 285. : 
Has. Roodezand, betw. Nieuwekloof and Slargenteuvel, Drege! (Hb. Sond.) 
A small, slender shrub. Leaves 4-5 lines long, nearly 1 line wide. Heads 3 lines 
long. I have seen but a small specimen, and have not had an opportunity of 
examining the generic character. The foliage is not unlike that of NV. prostrata. 
7. N. humilis (Less. Syn. 372); shrubby, much-branched, subdicho- 
tomous; branches and twigs cobwebbed, becoming nude; leaves opposite 
or scattered, sessile, linear or spathulate, channelled, obtuse or subacute, 
more or less villoso-tomentose or woolly, at length nearly nude; heads 
ovate, terminal, and in the forks sessile, subtended by several closely- 
applied leaves; inv. scales close-lying, very obtuse, the inner spreading ; 
achenes short, furrowed; pappus crown-like, toothed. WV. humilis, NV. 
minuta, and N. rigida, DC. 1. c. 283, 284. Relhania dichotoma, Willd. 
Pteronia minuta, Linn.? Sieb.! Fl. Cap. 117. Polycheetia relhanioides, 
Less. ! Syn. 371. 
Has. Uitenhage and Graafreynet, Z. §: Z./ Lichtenstein, Mdt. § Maire, Zey./ 2929. 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A rigid, much-branched, scrubby bush, a foot or more high ; twigs flexuous, 
Leaves 4-3 inch long, 3-1 line wide. Heads 4 lines long; inv. sc. very rigid. 
Pappus minutely denticulate, A specimen (in Hb. Sond.) of ‘ Polycheetia relhani- 
oides,” Less. marked by Lessing himself, has the coroniform pappus and all other 
characters of VN. humilis! Lessing has therefore either confounded two plants 
together, or, more probably, erroneously given two names and characters to the same 
plant. 
8. N. conferta (DC.! 1. c. 284); stem shrubby, depressed, or pro- 
strate, dichotomous, the branches very short, crowded; leaves linear, 
glabrous, subobtuse, channelled, crowded ; heads sessile in the forks 
and terminal, subtended by leaves ; heads oval, the scales close-lying, 
very obtuse, pale, the inner membranous at the point and spreading ; 
achenes short, furrowed ; pappus crown-like, toothed. 
Has. In very dry, stony places. Betw. the Sack and Gariep R., Burchell, No. 
1588. On the Karroo, and the Sneeuweberg, Dreye/ (Herb. D., Hk.) 
Root deeply descending, woody. Stems very dwarf, 2-3 inches high, densely 
branched and leafy, Leaves 4-6 lines long, } line wide. Invol. pale straw-colour ; 
by See character and its dwarf habit and quite glabrous leaves it is known from 
N. humilis. 
9. N. muriculata (DC. 1. c. 284); stem shrubby, much-branched, 
