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top, upper gradually shorter ; meee about 6, ovato-lanceolate, about 
bs lines long. en ea ee 
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Dianthus.} CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) 123 
and at Klipplaat River, Drege/ Gt. Fish River, Burke, Sandfontein and Zeekoe 
Valley, Zeyher, 80. Springbokkeel and Kamos, Boschjesman’s land, Zey. No. 26. 
e River and in Ceded Territory, Z. & Z. B. at Graham's Town, Zey. 82. and 
Dutoit’s Kloof, Drege. (Herb. Thunb., Vind., Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) 
Herbaceous, many-stemmed, 6-12 inches high. Stems filiform, simple, rarely 
with a single branchlet. Rad. leaves rigid, uncial ; upper cauline, 2-3 lines long. 
Bracts acute, glabrous, pale-edged. Lamina of petals about 2 lines long, broadly 
obovate, sometimes shortly toothed, sometimes fimbriate. Best known from the 
preceding by its much shorter calyx tube. 
** Stems paniculately branched. Petals entire or toothed. (Sp. 3-6.) 
3. D. incurvus (Thunb. ah ae D. cg Norra curved, suber oki 
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branched above, glabrous ; linear setaceous, sub- 
trigonous, glabrous, upper ete bracts 4, ovate-acute, mucronu- 
late, 2-3 times shorter than the (4-3 inch long) tube ; calyx teeth 
ovate, acute, ciliolate ; petals entire or sub-denticulate, the lamina 
obovate. E.&Z.! 242. D. albens, Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 1. vol, 2. 
Pp. 99. Willd. Sp. 2. 677. Lindl. Bot. Reg. ITT. 256. in not. D. Bur- 
chellu, Ser., DO. Prod. 1. p. 359. D. albens, H. Mey. ! 
Has. On the hills below the east side of Table Mt., in the Cape Flats, and near 
Simon’s Bay. Also at the Zondag and Zwartkops Rivers. (Herb. Thunb. Hook., 
T.C.D., Vind., Lehm., Sond.) 
Root. long, branching, many-stemmed. Stems 6-12 inches high. Lower leaves 
crowded, 1-2 inches long. 4 line wide. Flowers white or pale rosy, flesh-coloured, 
or purple : according to Thunberg cernuous. Bracts short and broad, membrane- 
- Lamina of the petals 4 lines long, 2 lines wide. 
4. D. holopetalus(Turcz, Animadv. 1. p. 99. excl. syn. D, albens E.& 
Z.) ; stems erect, branched, glabrous or minutely downy ; leaves serrulato- 
scabrid, sub—s—nerved, flat, the lower ones linear-elongate, the cauline 
gradually shorter ; bracts 4-6, lanceolate-acuminate, membrane-edged, 
twice shorter than the (half-inch long) tube ; petals oblong, entire. D, 
crenatus, E. & Z. | col. postr. = 
Has. Skurfdeberg and Rie’ Zey. No. 78! Vv: and at Tul 
Crm eee 
14-2 feet high, Lower leaves 3-4 inches 
aristato-acuminate, wi a wide margin subciliate at base. 
5. D. crenatns (Thunb. Prod. p. . 81); ‘ens ek ak branched, 
terete, glabrous ; branches co y angular, one-flowered ; lower 
—— linear. Tears sereed glabrous or roughish sear.the 
og as aT aie as the (inch-long Nisies : calyx teeth lanceolate, cilio- 
late ; petals crenato-dentate, the a broadly ovate. Thunb. Cap. Pp 
392. DC. lc. D. cespitosus, pn Pee a or, 8 2! a ee 
D. prostratus, Hochst.! D. inequalis, E. Mey! Zey. 1958. he 
pe ‘Us between Swellendam and Howhoek, Thunb. Zwartkop’ river and 
E.&Z.t R., Drege. Port Natal, Krauss. Nov: Deo. (Herb 
— ee T.C. Dai: id.) 
1-14 feet high. “Lower leaves 2-3 inches long, 14-2 lines wide ; 
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