322 composiT® (Harv.) [ Doria. 
terete ; leaves linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, thick, quite entire, tapering 
at base, callous-tipped, subacute, faintly mid-nerved ; pedicels axillary 
toward the ends of the branches, subracemose, a little shorter than the 
leaves ; inv. sc. 5-6, concrete at base, acuminate, with broad, mem- 
branous edges ; marg. achenes hairy-villous. 
Has. Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
Leaves 2 inches long, 2-3 lines wide. _ 
4, D. longipes (Harv.) ; shrubby, glabrous, erect ; branches terete, 
ramulous; leaves linear-lanceolate, fleshy, quite entire, tapering at base, 
acute, almost nerveless ; pedicels terminal and subterminal, slender, 
2-3 times as long as the leaves; inv. scales 5-6, linear-oblong, sub- 
acute, with narrow, membr. edges; marg. achenes (immature) thinly 
silky ? 
Has. Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. D.) 
Apparently a much-branched shrub. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 2-3 lines wide, 
shrinking when dry. Pedicels 3-4 inches long, pale. Inv. sc. 7 lines long, 14 line 
wide. The young achenes are compressed, and scarcely silky. Nearly allied to 
D. cneorifolia, but with different inflorescence, &c. 
5. D. cluytiefolia (DC.! 1. c. 470); shrubby, glabrous, erect, much 
branched ; branches terete, fiexuous, pale ;. leaves sessile, half-clasping 
and subdecurrent, obovate or oblong, obtuse, quite entire, rigid, nerve- 
less, glaucous; pedicels terminal, as long or twice as long as the leaves ; 
inv. sc. 5-7, broadly oblong or ovate, acute, concrete at base; marg.- 
achenes thick, very hairy. 
Has. Sneeuweberg and Nieuweveld, near Uitvlugt, Drege) (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
A very rigid, pale, glaucous bush. Leaves } inches long, 4-6 l. wide, immersedly 
3-nerved. Pedicels 4-1 inch long. Inv. scales (fide DC.) sometimes 9 ; they are 
commonly. but 5, rarely 6 or 7.- 
6. D. rigida (Harv.); shrubby, glabrous, divaricately much branched, 
the branches terete, often spine-pointed ; leaves coriaceous, oblong-ob- 
ovate, obtuse or mucronulate, glaucous, nerveless, some entire, others 
with two or few small, acute, lateral teeth ; pedicels terminal, a little 
longer than the leaves; inv. scales 5, acute, concrete at base, with 
membranous edges; marg. achenes very hairy. Cacalia rigida, Thunb.! 
Cap.p. 624. Doria spinescens, DC. 1.¢. 470. Kleinia rigida, DC. 1. ¢. 338. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Sneeuweberg, Drege. (Herb. Thunb. 
A very rigid, scrubby bush, the old’ bolige slag in Soars fi 3 in. long, 
3-4 lines wide, frequently bidentate near the apex. I have not seen Drege’s plant. 
but DC.’s description agrees well with Thunberg's specimen. ees 
*%. D. ciliata (Harv.); rigidly suffruticose, spreading, much branched ; 
branches pale, angular; leaves sessile, half-clasping, cuneate-oblong, 
obsoletely 3—5-toothed at the extremity, cartilagineo-ciliolate, coriaceous, 
rigid, faintly three-nerved, glaucous (turning black when dry); pedicels 
short, one-headed, terminal or opposite the leaves ; imv. scales 4-5, 
broadly oblong, connate at base, with membr. edges, acute; marg. achenes 
glabrous or nearly so (ripe not seen). 
Has. Vet Rivier, Burke § Zeyher! Zey.! 993. (Herb., Hk., Sd. 
Closely much branched, leafy; the pile. Sein wep rigid, but Sraperfectly ligneous. 
