216 
(nec scabris), bracteis aristatis, et petalis longioribus albidis, 
differt. 
Rhizome shortly branched above ground, ries several 
crowns. Leaves forming basal tufts, 5-10 cm. long, 0 
broad or less, filiform or channelled above, quite tne 
flowering stems 20-40 cm. high, slender, branched above ; cauline 
leaves 1-2 cm. long. Bracts 2 pairs, acute, with an awn up to 
2mm. long. Calyx 1-5-2°5 em. long. Petals exserted about 
1 cm., white, dentate. 
Rance: Transvaal High-veld. 
TRANSVAAL: Ermelo Burtt Davy 17387 ! type, in herb. 
Cantab.; Carolina Rogers 11553 !; Heidelberg Distr., Vereeniging, 
farm Burttholm Burtt Davy 15016 ! 
5. D. kamisbergensis, Sond. in Fl. Cap. i. 124 (1860)! 
RanGE: from the Tulbagh Div., to Little Namaqualand. 
Care Province: Without precise locality Mund! ; Little 
Namaqualand, Kamiesberg Ecklon & Zeyher 244! type; 
Calvinia Div., Roggeveld at the Blaauwkrantz Pass, 900.m. alt. 
Pearson 4984 1; Ceres Div., Leeuwfontein, common on burnt veld 
Pearson 3180 !, 3189 !; Tulbagh Div., Nieuwe Kloof 500 m. 
Schlechter 9026 !. 
6. D. namaensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v, App. 3, 84 
(1897) ! 
Rance: Great Namaqualand to Clanwilliam Div. 
South West Protectorate: Great Namaqualand, Tsirub 
Schinz 553!, type ; kopjes about 30 km. south of Griindoorn, 
between Dabaigabis and Griindoorn, 1250 m. alt., in fissures of 
granite rock on kopje Pearson 3151!; near Alewyn’s Fontein 
(15 miles north) Pearson 3486!; Great Karasberg at Naruda 
Nord, in crevices of sandstone in river bed Pearson 7855 ! 
Carr Province: Nardouw Kloof, in sand, in crevices of 
rock, Olifants River bed Pearson 5334 ! 
7. D. Burchellii, Ser. in DC Prod. i. 359 (1824) ! 
RANGE: British Bechuanaland. 
British BECHUANALAND: Kuruman Div., source of Kuruman 
River Burchell 2456! type in herb. Kew. ;. near the Pass in 
Kamhanin Mt. Burchell 2178 !. 
8. D. incurvus, Thunb., Prodr. 81 (1794)! ; D. albens, Ait., 
Hort. Kew. Ed. 1. ii. 90 (1789) ! ste 3 holopetalus, Turez. in Bull. 
Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxvii (1854) 369 
Rance: S.W. Cape from Clanwilliam Div. south to Table Mt. 
and east to the Semis River. 
APE Province: Without precise locality Roxburgh! , 
Admiral Sir F. Grey |, Harvey 234 !, 502!,*, Pappe! ; Malmesbury 
* These may be Zeyher’s numbers. 
