318 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Kleinia. 
leaves. Leaves 2-23 inches long, 2-3 lines thick, quite glabrous. Pedunc. 6-8 
inches long, slender, annual, terminal. Invol. 4-5 lines long. This comes near £. 
repens, but the leaves (in a dry state) seem different. 
7. K. pinguifolia (DC. 1. c. 336); “stem very short, fleshy-fruticose, 
villous; leaves subterete, acute, glabrescent, quite entire; pedunec. 3-4 
times longer than the leaves, glabrous, remotely forked, leafless ; pedi- 
cels nude, much longer than the heads; invol. scarcely calyculate, of 
about 12 acute scales; fl. about 20; achenes terete, downy.” DC. l.c¢. 
Has. Cape, Drege. (Unknown to us.) 
‘‘ Leaves 14 inch long, 2 lines wide. Inv. 4 lines long, equalling the pappus,” 
DC. It seems to come very near K. crassulefolia, 
8. K. breviscapa (DC. 1. c. 337); “stem very short, fleshy-fruticose, 
irregularly terete, somewhat villous; leaves subterete, with a subspinous 
mucro, entire, glabrous ; pedunc. subdichotomous, 4-headed, scarcely 
equalling the leaves, scaly ; inv. calyculate, of about 12 leaves, as long 
as the disc; fl. 25-30; achenes glabrous, subvillous on the angles.” 
DG. t, 6 
Has. Ebenezar, Oliphant River, Drege. (Unknown to us.) 
“ Leaves 14-2 inches long, often incurved. Heads 5 lines long and broad.” DC. 
9. K. Ecklonis (Harv.); rhizome creeping subhorizontally under 
ground ; stem short, ascending, fleshy, rough with broken leaf-bases ; 
leaves crowded on the upper half of the stem, linear-terete, elongate, 
channelled above, attenuated, acute, glabrous ; scapes shorter than the 
leaves, slender, distantly scaly, one-headed ; inv. scales ro—12, acumi- 
nate, with broad margins equalling the disc; fl. all perfect (no female 
marginal fi.), 40-50; achenes (young), subglabrous, with a wide, epigy- 
nous disc. K. acaulis, 8. Ecklonis, DC. l. c. 
Has. On dry hills at Adow, Uit., £. Z., Zey.! 2981. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Rhizome several inches long ; stem rising 2~3 inches above the soil, 4-5 lines 
diameter. Lvs. 21-31 inches long, 11-2 lines diameter. Scapes about 3 inches long. 
10. K. talinoides (DC. 1. c. 337); quite glabrous, fleshy-fruticose, 
erect; stem terete; leaves fleshy, elongate, ‘ terete-compressed’ (?), quite 
entire, acute or acuminate; pedunc. much longer than the leaves, terete, 
nude, ending in a much-branched, many-headed, close, corymbose 
panicle; pedicels shorter than the invol. or about equalling it; invol. 
1-3 bracteolate at base, of 5-7 scales, 5—7-flowered, shorter than the 
flowers; achenes glabrous, 
Has. Haazenkraal’s River, near Uitkomst, Drege! (Herb. Sd., D.) 
T have not seen the stem. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, much com- 
pressed in drying. Pedunc. 6-9 inches long; corymb 2 inches across, 40-50-headed 
or more. Inv. 3-4 lines long, 2 lines wide. 
11. K. Haworthii (DC. 1 c. 338); “in all parts clothed with dense, 
white woolliness; stem fleshy-fruticose ; leaves terete, tapering to each 
end.” Cacalia tomentosa, Haw. Mise. p. 189, non Linn. C, Haworthii, Sw. 
Has. Cape. 
i in Europe (at least formerly); fi. undescribed. 
