474 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
27. M. dumosa, DC. 1. c, n. 32. E. Meyer, in pl. Drége.— 
Ad latera mont. Tygerberg (III. D, a.) M. Jul. 1838. Krauss 
n. 818.—Rami stricti, minutissime puberuli, demum glabri. 
Foliorum fasciculi 3-(rarius 5-) phylli, demum remotiusculi, 
patentes; foliis rigidulis, linearibus, basi attenuatis, planis, 
apice obtuso v. acuto recurvo minute mucronulatis, dorso 
l-nerviis, 2-3 lin. longis, 3 lin. latis, scabriusculis; axillis 
(superioribus) 1-2-floris. Flores magnitudine formá et 
colore fere omnino precedentis. Capsula desideratur. 
28. M. brevifolia, DC. 1. c. n. 3.—1In arenosis planitiei 
Capensis (IJI. E, b.) Jul. 1833. Krauss n. 813.— M. ser- 
pylloides, Eckl. et Zeyh. enum. p. 25, fide specim. Un. 
itin. n. 540. 
29. M. diffusa, Burch. DC. 1. c.n. 15. E. Mey. in pl. Droge, 
—Inter frutices prope Constantiam (III. D, b.) Sept. 
1838. Krauss n. 814. In monte Tafelberg, alt. III., Ecklon. 
Un. itin. n. 52. 
30. M. tenuifolia, DC.1. c. n. 13?—In summitate montium 
Tafelberg prope Port Natal, alt. 2,000-3,000 (V, c.) Sept. 
1839, Krauss n. 253.—We refer our plant to this species, 
because it is distinguished from all others we have seen by 
much thinnerleaves; besides, it agrees tolerably well with 
De Candolle's Baton and Poiret's short description (dict. 
5, p. 497). From M. conferta DC., (which it resembles in its 
leaves being scabrous on the margin and midrib, with minute 
setule, scarcely visible to the naked eye), it differs in the 
minute (not hirsute) pubescence of the branches, and by 
the narrow lanceolate or linear leaves, 3-4 lines in length, and 
1-2 lin. in breadth. We have not seen the capsule. 
31. M. heterophylla, E. Mey. in pl. E. Drége.—Ramis sim- 
plicibus, gracilibus, superne puberulis ; foliis subtrigono-linea- [ 
ribus, acuminato-mucronatis, semipatentibus, glabris, summis — 
ciliatis, aliis solitariis, aliis fasciculatis (foliis axillaribus — 
parvulis) ; sepalis ovato-oblongis, acutis, submuticis, corollà | 
vix dimidio brevioribus. 1 
In arenosis planitiei Capensis prope Constantiam (II. D, — 
b. Sept. 1838. Krauss n. 816. (Un. itin. n. 544). 1 
