Berkheya. | LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 429 
1, B. (Stobea) Zeyheri, Sond. et Harv. ex Harv. et Sond. Fl. 
Cap, iii. p. 496; non Less. Branches ascending or erect, thinly cot- 
tony; the barren branches leafy throughout; flowering ones. leafy 
below, nearly naked above, 1-1} ft. high. Leaves narrow-linear, 
tapering towards the tip, sessile, bristle-pointed, setosely ciliate, white- 
tomentose beneath, 4-2 in. long, margins much revolute. Capitula 
solitary, terminal, subglobose, (including the rays) about 1} in. dia- 
meter. Involucral scales reflexed during flowering, linear-subulate, 
rather exceeding the ligules, setose-ciliate, cottony beneath. Achenes 
silky ; pappus twice as long as the achene of many biseriate fimbriate 
eR. 
Mozamb. Distr. Near Kankanje, Kirk / 
Occurs also south of the tropic. 
2, B. gorterioides, 0. § H. A scabrous-asperous diffuse 
perennial. Branches pale, hispid. Leaves spathulate or narrowly 
elliptical, very scabrous and hispid above, white-tomentose beneath, 
attenuate at the base, shortly or scarcely petiolate, 3-1? in. long, apex 
apiculate with a rigid bristle, margins revolute. Capitula solitary 
subsessile, subglobose, 3 in. long (exclusive of the rays). Involucral 
bracts linear-subulate bristly hispid setaceous-ciliate, terminating in a 
long serrulate bristle; outer ones filiform. Ligule of the ray-florets 
about 15, linear, 2-# in. long. Achenes densely pilose-villous. Pappus 
Paleaceous, hyaline, fimbriate. 
South Central?. “South Tropical Africa,” Baines ! 
3. B. Spekeana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 100, 
t. 66. A robust erect branched prickly herb, some feet high. Branches 
striate puberulous above, not angled, leafy to the top. Leaves linear- 
oblong, sessile, semiamplexicaul, remotely toothed, setosely apiculate 
at tip, Spinous-hispid above, white-tomentose beneath, 1-6 in. long ; 
th setosely apiculate. Capitula subglobose, solitary or a few near 
together, shortly pedunculate, about 1 in. diameter (exclusive of the 
rays). Involucral bracts numerous lax, linear or linear-subulate, spinous- 
acuminate, about # in. long. Ligule of the ray-florets about 1 in. long, 
linear. Achenes somewhat hairy. Palese of the pappus about 15-20, 
i several rows, denticulate-ciliolate at the obtuse round tip.—Oullu- 
ma, n. 2, T. Thoms, in Speke, Journ., App. p. 638. 
Wile Land. Unyoro, Speke and Grant! 
95, PLATYCARPHA, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 462. 
Capitula homogamous few (3 or more) -flowered, collected in a 
dense depressed-hemispherical head. Involucral scales gluma- 
®eous, about 12, nearl equal, oblong acuminate. Receptacle very 
ow naked (or with narrow pales between the outer florets). 
Corolla infundibuliform above, 5-lobed. Style-branches short ovate- 
oblong rather obtuse. Achene (very transversely rugulose) with 
2-seriate pales, linear-lanceolate or the inner -subulate.— 
