Tab. 5715. 



STOBiEA SPMROCEPHALA. 



Mound-headed Stobcea. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Synge:ntesia Supekflea. 



Gen. Char. Capitula multiflora, v. discoidea floribus omnibus tubulosis 

 et hermaphroditis, v. radiata floribus radii neutris. Involucri squamae 

 multiseriata?, basi concretae dein spinescentes, marginibus spinulosis. Ee- 

 ceptaculum profunde alveolatum, alveolis fimbrilliferis v. setiferis. Fila- 

 menta lzevia. Pappi seta? aequales v. insequales v. in coronam concreta?. 

 Achania turbinata v. obpyramidata, sulcata, sa?pe alveolis receptacuh 1m- 

 mersa. — Herba? habitu Carduaceae, Gapenses, glabra araneosa v. lanatcs. 

 Folia alterna, scepissime pinnatifido-lobata. Capitula ramos terminantia, 

 Jlava, rarius purpurea. 



SfOB.EA sphcerocepJiala; herbacea, erecta, ramosa, laxe araneosa, caule alato, 

 alis spinulosis, foliis radicalibus lanceolatis pinnatifidis spinuloso-den- 

 tatis ciliatisve, demum glabratis lobis rotundatis, caulims longe decur- 

 rentibus, capitulis corymbosis globosis discoideis, mvolucro disco 

 multo breviore, squamis angustis marginibus 1-2 spiuulosis, recep- 

 tacuh squamis acicularibus, pappi squamis brevibus in coronam char- 

 taceam irregulariter fissam connatis, achaeniis glabernmis. 



Stob^a sphferocephala. DC. Prodr. v. 6. p. 518. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 v. 8. p. 490. 



The Cape genus Stobcea consists of no less than forty-three 

 species of for the most part handsome golden-flowered thistle- 

 like plants, well adapted for the open border, but of which 

 the present is the first that has ever been cultivated and 

 figured in this country. It was raised from seeds sent by 

 our excellent correspondent Henry Hutton, Esq., of Bedford, 

 South Africa, and flowered in the open air in September, 

 1864. 



Descr. A stout, erect, branching herb, two to three teet 

 high, loosely covered with cobwebby down. Branches 

 broadly winged, with the green, spinous, decurrent bases ot 

 the leaves and bracts. Badical leaves eight to ten inches 

 long, lanceolate, narrowed to the base, deeply sinuato-pinna- 

 tifid, the lobes broad, rounded, spinous-toothed cobwebby 

 below, glabrous above, and often spinulose on the surface : 



June 1st, 1868. 



