14 AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACE^ [Nebelia 



III. NEBELIA 



Neck. Elem. i. 113 (1790); 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. 233 

 (1891) (in part). Berardia Brongn. op. cit. 380; Hooker, op. cit. 

 672; Sender, op. cit. 318 (in part). Diberara Baillon in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. Linn. Par. i. 279 (1881) ; Niedenzu, op. cit. 135. Heterodon 

 Meissner, Gen. 72 (1837) ? 



Key to Species. 



'!'Flower-heads broadly obconic. 



Interspersed bracts exceeding the flowers (2) Icevis. 



Interspersed bracts scarcely exceeding the flowers... (1) paleacea 

 '^•-i^Flower-heads globose or ovoid. 



f Leaves glabrous, 2-3 mm. long; flower-heads ovoid, 



7-8 mm. long (4) tulbaghensis. 



ff Leaves hairy, 4-6 mm. long. 



a. Interspersed bracts much longer than the flowers. 



Flower-heads globose, 12-13 mm. in diameter ; 



leaves 6 mm. long (5) fragarioides. 



Flower-heads globose, 18-25 mm. in diameter ; 



leaves 4 mm. long (6) globosa. 



b. Interspersed bracts scarcely exceeding the flowers. 



Flower-heads broadly ovoid, 2 cm. in diameter 



(3) splicerocephala. 



1. Nebelia paleacea Sweet, Horfc. Brit. 116 (1830). Berardia 

 paleacea Brongn. op. cit. 381, t. 37, f. 2 ; Sonder, op. cit. 319. 

 Brunia paleacea Berg. Cap. 56; Linn. Mant. 559 ; Thunb. Prod. 

 41 ; Fl. Cap. 206 ; Willd. I. c. t. 3, f. 1. B. Thunbergiana D. 

 Dietr. Syn. PI. i. 849. Diberara paleacea Niedenzu, op. cit. 136 ; 

 Colozza, op. cit. pp. 21, 33. 



Coast Eegion. — Stellenbosch Div. : Hottentot's Holland 

 Mountains, Pappe ! Sir Lowry's Pass, 1000 ft., Bolus, 4179 ! 

 MacOtuan, 1458 ! Stellenbosch, Harvey ! Worcester Div. : Du- 

 toit's Kloof, 2000-4:000 it., Drege, a\ and Drege, aa\ Caledon 

 Div. : On hills near Grabouv^, Palmiet Eiver, 900 ft.. Bolus, 4179 ! 

 EcJclon d Zeyher, 1080 ! tops of mountains near Baviaan's Kloof, 

 near Genadendal, Bitrckell, 7680 ! Zwartberg, Pappe ! slopes of 

 mountains near Houw Hoek, Boioie ! MacOioan, Herb. Norm. 

 Austr.-Afric. 137 ! Villiersdorp, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 9919! George 

 Div. : Mountains of George, Boioie ! 



Without Locality. — Thorn, 702 ! Masson ! Zeyher, 2649 ! 

 Oldenburg, 1264 ! Harvey ! in Herb. Forsyth ! 



The size of the flower-heads varies ; specimens collected by 

 Bolus, 4179, at Sir Lowry's Pass, and Boioie at Houw Hoek, 

 scarcely exceed 7 mm. in diameter, while the majority of speci- 

 mens at Kew, collected in the vicinity of the locality cited and 

 elsewhere, have flower-heads averaging 12 mm. across. 



2. N. L^vis O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. 233 (1891). Berardia IcBvis 

 E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc. 168 ; Sonder, op. cit. 319. 

 Diberara IcBvis Niedenzu, I. c, i. 75, q. 



Coast Eegion. — Caledon Div. : Eocky and stony mountain 

 places, 3000-4000 ft. ; Genadendal, Drege ! tops of mountains near 



