. 
Doria.] — coMPosIT (Harv.) 323 
Leaves 1-1} inch long, 4-5 lines wide, with a deltoid extremity ; in the specimens 
seen turning quite black in drying. Pedicel shorter than the leayes. Inv. sc. 4~5 
lines long, 2 1. wide. 
8. D. Kraussii (Sch. Bip. in Bot. Zeit. xxvii. p. 769); half-shrubby, 
erect or diffuse, much-branched, glabrous; branches terete, flexuous; 
leaves obovate, obtuse, decurrent at base into a narrow, vanishing stem- 
wing, coriaceous, faintly 3-nerved, some quite entire, some few-toothed, 
callous-margined ; pedicels sub-terminal, solitary or 2~3-together, one- 
headed, 2-8 times as long as the leaves ; inv. scales 6-8, oblong, con- 
crete at base, membrane-edged, subacute; achenes silky-villous. D-alata, 
DC. 1. c. ex pte. Drege! litt. a. &b. Othonna frutescens, Eckl. (non L.) 
Has. Aasvogelberg and Kopie, near mouth of Zwartkops R., Drege! Zey.! 3032. 
Uitenhage and Kaffirland, Ecklon / (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) ; 
Very similar in habit and foliage to D. alata, with which it was associated by 
De Candolle; but from which it differs in inflorescence, larger fl. heads, longer pedi- 
cels, more numerous and less connate inv. scales, and narrower stem-wings. Inyol. 
scales 4 lines long. D0C.’s description refers to both plants. 
9. D. alata (Thunb. Cap. 673); half-shrubby, erect or diffuse, much 
branched, glabrous; branches terete, flexuous; leaves obovate, obtuse, 
strongly decurrent at base into a vanishing stem-wing, coriaceous, vein- 
less, entire, callous-margined ; heads in subsessile, branching corymbs, 
the pedicels swollen upwards ; inv. scales about 5, oblong, concrete to 
their middle, subacute; achenes densely hairy. Less. Syn. p. 69. DC. 
l.c. (ex pte.), p. 470. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Hills about Eland’s R., Uitenhage, Zey.! 3033. (Herb. 
Th., D.,Sd., Hk.) 
Scrubby, divaricately branched, ligneous below, half-ligneous above ; the bark 
dark-coloured. Leaves } inch long, 3-6 lines wide, undulate, decurrent for 4-5 lines 
below the base as a broadish wing. Heads on short clavate pedicels, in a branching 
10-20-headed corymb. Inv. sc. 3 lineslong. Zeyher’s specimens quite agree with 
Thunberg’s. 
10. D. nana (DC.1.c. 470); “glabrous; stem shrubby-carnose, dwarf, 
branched ; branches terete, thick, leafy at the summit only; leaves 
somewhat tufted, sessile, obovate, tapering at base, obtuse, thickish, 
nerveless, serrulate or sublobulate at the margin; pedicels terminal, 
solitary, 4 as long as leaves ; inv. sc. 5, ovate, concrete at base.” DC. l. c. 
(Achenes not seen.) 
Has. Karroo, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
11, D. Ceradia (Harv.); shrubby-carnose, glabrous ; branches repeat- 
edly forked, leafy at the tips; leaves tufted, oblongo-spathulate, obtuse 
or retuse, coriaceous, rigid, tapering at base into a 3-nerved petiole, 
obsoletely veiny ; ped. 1 or several, terminal, 1-headed, equalling the 
leaves; invol. scales 5-6, oblong, acute, concrete at base only; achenes 
silky. Ceradia furcata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, Pl. misc. p.12. Walp. 
Rep. 6, p. 727. 
Has. On the island of Ichaboe. (Herb. Hk., sp. cult. % 
A fleshy shrub, with the general aspect and foliage of Othonna arborescens. In 
gen. char. it precisely agrees with other species of Doria. 
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