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243!; Puspas Valley Ecklon & Zeyher 246% (No. 247 at Kew !); 
George Div.?, George Mts. Bowie !; Tulbagh Div., mountains 
above Tulbagh Waterfall, 350 m. alt. Bolus 5126! type in 
herb. Kew.; Nieuwe Kloof 500 m. alt. Schlechter 9033 A 
Tulbagh Pappe!; Ceres Div., Michels Pass Rehmann 2332 i: 
Malmesbury and Piquetberg Divisions, Skurfdeberg, Twenty-four 
Rivers and Riebeeks-Kasteel Drége a !, (sub nom. D. scaber, 
Thunb.), Zeyher 76!, 77! : 
var. luteus, Burtt Davy, var. nov., a forma typica petalis 
minoribus luteo-viridisque, differt. : 
Care Province: Paarl Div., Groot Drakenstein Rogers 
17329 ! type. 
Petals exserted 4 mm., greenish-yellow, fimbriate: calyx 
2-5 cm. long. Plant approaching D. Burchellii, Ser., in length 
of petals, but these are more fimbriate, and the leaves are much 
longer. 
10. D. junceus, Burtt Davy, sp. nov., D. caespitoso, Thunb., 
affinis sed bracteis acutis vel minute apiculatis, marginibus 
apicibusque late scariosis, differt. 
Stems tufted, much branched below from a woody crown. 
Flowering stems 30-35 cm. high, 1 mm. diam., very numerous, 
erect, simple, wiry. Leaves mostly basal, 2-3 cm. long; cauline 
leaves about 1 cm. long, appressed, not rigid, the uppermost 
scale-like, 5 mm. long. Calycine bracts about 4 pairs, 0°6- 
1-2 cm. long, with a very broad, scarious margin to the apex, 
acute or with a minute apiculus. Calyx 4.cm. long, the teeth 
with broad scarious margins. Petals exserted about 2 cm. 
beyond the calyx, dentate (or laciniate ?) “ pale lilac.” 
Rance: Little Namaqualand. 
Carpe Province: Little Namaqualand: Khamiesberg, sum- 
mit of kopje South-west of Leliefontein Pearson 6312 ! type ; 
lower South-east slope of Vogelklip, among bushes in dry 
stream-bed Pearson & Pillans 5904!; roadside and cornlands, 
Brakdam Pearson & Pillans 5604 !. 
11. D. caespitosus, Thunb., Prod. 81 (1794) ! 
Stems 12-38 em. high, simple. Basal leaves 2-6 cm. long, 
setaceous to flat and up to 1 mm. broad; cauline leaves 0° 5- 
15 cm. long, the uppermost scale-like and approaching or over- 
lapping the calycine bracts. Calycine bracts 3-4 pairs, up Y 
1-7 cm. long, long-acuminate, setaceous pointed, not or scarcely 
scarious-margined. Calyx very long (4-5 em.). Petals exceeding 
t —~2 om., deeply lacerate. 
pees Keown ate Diem the Caledon and Riversdale 
Carr Province: “e. Cap. b. Spei,” without precise locality 
Thunberg! type; Caledon Div., Genadendal, ho m. alt. 
Schlechter 9803 !; Riversdale Div., Gauritz River Pappe! 
the numerous specimens so named, only these two Kew 
sheets can be considered conspecific wth the Thunberg type. 
