44 ‘COMPOSITE (Harv.) 
Magalisberg, Zey. 776; var. B. dist. of Cape, Swellendam, Uitenhage, and Albany ;. 
Walwekop, Zey. 775; var.y. Nieuweveldsbergen near Beaufort, 3-5000ft. Drege, v. 5, 
A very polymorphous plant. Flowers blue, violet or purplish, and white according 
“yy. to Thunberg. 
» 2, S, Africana (Lin. Spec. 145); whole plant wl/ous or pubescent; 
stem herbaceous, erect, terete or subangular at the base, branched; leaves 
obovate or obovate-oblong, eroso-dentate or lyrato-pinnatifid at the 
base ; upper leaves much smaller, undivided or pinnatifid ; peduncles 
elongated; heads of fruit globose; corollas radiant, 5-fid; crown 20-24- 
nerved ; bristles of calyx 5, twice longer than the crown. Zhunb.! L1. 
Cap. 145. Herrm. Parad, t.219. Herb. Un. Itin. 724. Coult. Dips. 37, t 
2,f:12. EB. Z.2335. S. indurata, Lin, Mant. 196. S. altissima, Jacq. Hort. 
Vind. t. 185. S. maritima, E. Mey. 
Has. Hills near Capetown, Capeflats, &c. Jul.-Oct. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
Remarkable for its large leaves, which are 4—6 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, and 
clothed with soft and short tomentum ; the lower ones aggregated, irregularly-toothed 
or incised at the narrowed base. Heads about the size of a walnut. Leaves of 
involucre lanceolate, silky, shorter than the pubescent corolla. Crown equalling the 
pubescent fruit, or a little shorter. 
3. §. Buekiana (E. Z.! 2336); whole plant clothed with appressed 
silky hairs; stem suffruticose, branched and leafy at the base; leaves 
sessile, lyrately- or cuneate-spathulate, serrato-dentate from the middle, 
quite entire at the base; peduncles elongated ; heads of fruit subglobose ; 
corollas radiant, 5-fid; crown about 20-nerved; bristles of calyx 5, 
2-3-times longer than the crown. S. tomentosa, L. Mey. ; 
Var. 8. virescens; tomentum greenish; heads often smaller. 
Var. y. angustiloba; leaves pinnatifid; lobes lanceolate. 
Has. Grassy hills near Olifantshoek on Bosjesmansriver, Uitenh., Sept., #. Z.; 
near Salomonstown, May, Zey. 2732; var. 8. in Caffraria, Eck. Herb., T’. Cooper, 
303; var. y. near Grahamstown and Glenfilling, Dec., Drege. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Stem short, but branches 1 foot and more high. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 6-8 lines 
broad, obovate-cuneated, bluntly-toothed or serrated, or in var. y. deeply-pinnatifid ; 
lobes about 4 lines long, 1 line broad. Heads nearly asin S. columbaria. Peduncles 
1 foot long. Leaves of involucre lanceolate, twice shorter than the radiant outer 
flowers. Lobes of the pubescent corolla twice shorter than the tube. Fruit and 
involucel as in S. columbaria; but the bristles are generally somewhat shorter. 
Orper LXXVI. COMPOSITA, Juss. 
(By W. H. Harvey). 
Flowers (of minute size) arranged in heads (capitula) on a general 
receptacle, surrounded by an involucre, composed of several, separate or 
cohering, dry and membranous or green and leaf-like, scales, The 
heads are either many- or few-flowered, or one-flowered ; separate, OF 
aggregated into compound clusters called glomerules, Flowers sessile 
on a disc-like, flat or convex, receptacle. Calyx-tube adhering to the 
ovary; limb (called pappus) either obsolete, annular or ring-like, coront- 
form, toothed, sealy, bristle-shaped or feathery, usually enlarged as the 
ovary swells, and more or less persistent. Corolla epigynous, tubular, 
