“quite glabrous; stem very short, shrubby; leaves crowded on the crown, compressed, quite entire, callous-mucronate, acute; pedunc. twice as long as the leaves, nude, striate, bifid, 2–4-headed; pedicels elongate, scarcely scaly under the head; inv. sc. about 12, scarious edged, equalling the flowers; fl. 25–30; achenes terete, densely hairy.” DC. l. c. Said to be allied to K. ficoides, but “scarcely glaucous, much smaller, with fewer fl. heads. Leaves 3–3 1/2 inches long, 3 lines wide. Heads 6 lines long, and nearly as wide.” DC. I give this on DC.'s authority; a specimen in Hb. Sond., with the fl. in bad condition, looks to me more like a Doria. Specimens collected by Dr. Pappe, at the Waterfall, Tulbagh (in Herb. Cap.) agree better with DC.'s character. Their leaves vary from 1 1/2–4 1/2 inches long, 2–3 lines wide. The scape, sometimes one-headed, is 6–12 inches long, in the larger plant forked and 2–3-headed; pedicels 2 inches long. Achenes densely and softly villous.