44 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
congesto, involucri squamis hirtellis.”’—DC. Prod., vol. v. p. 89.  £. 
Mey. ! in Pl. Drege. : 
— 2-300 feet, Drege! Worcester, Ecklon & Zeyher! (Herb. 
ee Ged. 
Descr.— Collum barbed with long, silky hairs. Stem 2 feet high, 
rigid, rufescent, slightly flexuous, rough with minute, gland-tipped, 
slightly viscous hairs. Ladical-leaves 5-6 inches long, 1-14 inch wide 
in the middle, elliptico-lanceolate, acute or subacuminate, tapering at 
base into an imperfect petiole, 5—7 ribbed, glandularly-hispidulous on 
both sides ; cauline leaves clasping at base, shorter, narrower, and more 
acuminate than the radical, the uppermost small, and reduced to lanceo- 
late and subulate scales. Inflorescence racemoso-paniculate, each branch 
ending in a dense, few-flowered, little-divided corymb. Jnvolucres 
2 inch long, or rather more, glandularly-pubescent, and viscidulous. 
Corolla purple ; its lobes lanceolate. 
This species is readily known from all others of its genus by the 
broader, more membranous and less rigid leaves, resembling in form and 
venation those of Plantago lanceolata, The genus Corymbium, exclu- 
sively a South African type, is remarkable for its straight-veined leaves, 
simulating those of an Endogen ; some of the species having leaves like 
those of grasses, others like those of some Irideous plant. It is also an 
instance of a Composite plant, whose ‘‘ capitulum’’ contains but a single 
flower; but several other South African genera share in this peculiarity. 
It belongs to the sub-order Vernoniacea. 
Fig. 1, Corymbium congestum ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a capitulum, containing 
a solitary flower; the two involucral leaves pulled apart; 3, scales of the pappus; 4, 
stigmata ; magnified. 
LXX. EUMORPHIA DREGEANA, DC. ( Composite.) 
E. Dregeana: DC. Prod., vol. vi. p. 3. 
Haps.—Sneeuwbergen, between Compasberg and Rhinosterberg, 5000-6000 feet, 
Drege! Africa’s Hoogte, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A small shrub, 1—2 feet high, much branched and ramuli- 
ferous, glabrous. Leaves minute, 1-14 line long, opposite, decussating, 
imbricating, linear, obtuse, fleshy, with strongly revolute margins, co- 
vering the whole lower surface, and leaving a mere medial furrow. 
Heads terminating the branches and ramuli, solitary or corymbulose, 2 
lines in diameter, the rays spreading half an inch. Jnvolucre imbricat- 
ing in several rows, the scales obtuse, round-backed, appressed, the outer 
ones gland-tipped. Receptacle convex, covered with leafy scales, which 
subtend and partly enwrap each flower, Ray flowers in a single row, 
female, white. Dzse-fl. longer than the involucre, perfect, obtusely 5- 
lobed. <Anthers not tailed. Style of the disc-fl. with divergent, trun- 
eate branches; of the ray with filiform, recurved, subacute branches. 
Pappus none. Achenia glabrous, 4-5 angled. 
With a generic character very closely agreeing with that of Anthe- 
mis, this elegant little shrub has a very distinct general habit, entitling 
