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Var. 8, crassifolium (E, Meyer, Comm. 250); leaves quite entire, somewhat 
eg agg at the base. #, Meyer, in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
ib ET. 
Sourn AFRICA: without precise locality, Alewander! Miss Cole! Forster! 
Mund! Nelson! Oldenburg ! Sieber, 147! Thom! Wallich! Wright, 509, 515! 
Zeyher, 3586! and cultivated specimens! 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div.; Darling, Bachmann, 429! Zwartland, 
Zeyher, 3585! Cape Div. ; Wynberg, 200-600 ft., Drege! in shady places on the 
Cape Downs, Bowie / Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 626! Camps Bay, Burchell, 
303! hill at Muizenberg, Wallich! foot of Table Mountain, Pappe! Ecklon, 
739! Wallich! Table Mountain, above Camps Bay, 800 ft., Galpin, 4399! near 
Cape Town, Harvey, 514! in stony grassy places on Lion Mountain, near Cape 
Town, 800 ft., MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 934! Devils Peak, 
Wilms, 3522! Wolley Dod, 639! Flats near Rondebosch, Zeyher, 3584! Wolley 
Dod, 640! Flats near Doornhoogde, Wolley Dod, 638! Paarl Div. ; Paarl, 
Elliott! rivers on Paarl Berg, Drége. Tulbagh Div. ; at Steendal, Pappe! near 
Tulbagh Waterfall, 1000-2000 ft., Ecklon §° Zeyher! mountains near New 
Kloof, 1000 ft., Drege ; Mitchells Pass, 1300 ft., Sch/echter, 8943! Caledon Div. ; 
mountains near Genadendal, 1000-1500 ft., Drége! Zonder Hinde River, 600 ft., 
Drége! at Caledons Institution, Bowie / Riversdale Div. ; Riversdale, Rust, 446! 
Mossel Bay Div. ; in a dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 
6501! on the road between Hartenbosch and Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6225! 
Knysna Div,; on the sands at Plettenberg Bay, Bowie! Port Elizabeth Div. ; 
at Port Elizabeth, Hewitson, 140! 
Western Reoion: Var. 8: Little Namaqualand ; between Silver Fontein and 
Kousies (Buffels) River, 1000-2000 ft., Drege. 
The variety crassifolium is only known to me from the description. 
9. D. fruticosum (Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 351); perennial, 
stout, erect, much branched, 1-2 ft. or more high; branches glabrous ; 
leaves sessile, somewhat crowded near the base of the branches, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, with 3-5 pairs of small 
teeth above the middle, glabrous, 4—9 lin. long; spikes elongated, 
dense, up to 3 in. long in fruit; bracts lanceolate or ovate, acute, 
glabrous, 11-2 lin. long; ecalyx-lobes lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 
apiculate, 1-11 lin. long; corolla 3-4 lin. long; tube slender ; lobes 
oblong, nearly 1 lin. long; fruit ovoid, by lin. long. Hebenstreitia 
fruticosa, Linn. fil. Suppl. 287; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 570; Poir. 
Eneyel. iii. 78; Thunb. Prodr. 103 ; and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 478, excl. 
syn, Berg.; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 331; Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 754 3 not 
of Sims, E, Meyer, Walpers, or Choisy. Selago ramulosa, Choisy in 
DC. Prod. xii. 20, not of Link or E. Meyer. 
SourH AFRICA: without precise locality, Masson ! 
Coast Rearon: Clanwilliam Div. ; Lamberts or A 
Piquetberg Div. ; Piquetberg Mountain, Thunberg ! 
This species has been much confused by authors. 
10. D. squarrosum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 188) ; 
perennial, much branched, 1-2 ft. high ; branches minutely puberu- 
lous; leaves sessile, squarrose, broadly ovate, subacute, entire or 
denticulate, 12-2 lin. long; spikes oblong, very dense, {—1} in. long ; 
bracts elliptie-ovate, acute, ciliate at the base, apex recurved, 22 lin. 
long ; calyx-lobes linear-oblong, = keeled, ciliate, 14 lin. long ; 
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lexanders Kloof, Wallich! 
