54 comeosiT#& (Harv.) [ Platycarpha. 
equally 5-cleft, the lobes linear. Filaments smooth. Anthers linear, 
sagittate. Stigmata 2, filiform, very long, bristly throughout. Achenes 
thick, subtrigonous, densely hairy, slightly contracted under the pap- 
pus. Pappus in many rows, persistent, scabrous, the outer pales bris- 
tle-shaped, the inner subulate-acuminate. DC. Prodr. 5, p. 73. 
Rigid shrubs, with pungent, linear or subulate leaves, Heads sessile, axillary or 
terminal.—_Name compounded of éAov, a dart, and @vAdAor, a leaf; from the sharp 
pointed leaves. 
Leaves semiterete, entire; heads crowded; invol. scales glabrous.., (1) spinosum. 
Leaves flat, with spinous, marginal teeth ; heads solitary ; invol. sc. 
powdery Su, x ec eee te eke eed ose ses gee ove, (2) BERGE: 
1. H. spinosum (DC. 1. c. p. 73) ; glabrous; leaves horizontally spread- 
ing, subulate, semiterete, furrowed, quite entire; invol. scales broadly ob- 
long, very obtuse, shortly mucronate, quite glabrous ; heads sessile in 
the upper axils and several-crowded at the ends of the branches. 
Has. Olifants R., and Bokkeland, Thunb.; Clanwilliam, £.Z./ Gariep, Drege! 
(Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
A much-branched, rigid suffrutex: branches and leaves divaricate. Leaves 1-2 
inches long, pungent, 1~2 lines wide. Invol. 4 inch long, of many close-pressed, 
horny, wide-margined scales. Pappus fulvous. Corolla pale. 
2. H. ferox (Sond.) ; subglabrous ; leaves spreading, linear-mucron- 
ate, flat, armed with 1-2 pairs of spinous, marginal teeth, furrowed ; 
invol. scales ovate, strongly mucronate, ‘Loewy glauco-pulverulent ; 
heads terminal, solitary sessile. 
Has. Gamke R., Burke § Zeyher; Krails R. Beaufort, Zeyh. ! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Very rigid, much branched, and spiny as the last, but with flat leaves, margined, 
with a few spinous teeth, and solitary, terminal heads. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 1 
line wide. Pappus fulvous. 
V. PLATYCARPHA, Less. 
Heads densely crowded, sessile, many-flowered, homogamous. Jnvol. 
scales in many rows, lanceolate, entire, scarious, pungent-mucronate, 
the inner narrow, resembling palee. Cor. with a long, slender, hispid 
tube, and equally 5-parted limb, the lobes linear, with recurved, gland- 
bearing points. /i/. smooth. Anthers linear, obtuse, subequally sagit- 
tate at base. St:gmata 2, filiform, diverging, equally papillate through- 
out. Achenes glabrous, oblong, bluntly 5-angled. Pappus persistent, 
of 7-9, white, linear-acuminate, entire, spreading scales. DC. Prodr. 5,71- 
Only one species. The name is compounded of mAatus, flat, and xapqos, a scale ; 
relereing totes fi sohles Gb the puppies Las sla 
1, P. glomerata (Less. in Linn. 6,p.688); DC.1.c. Cynara glomerata, 
Th.! Cap. 141. Stobea glomerata, Spr. Syst. 3, p. 394. 
Has. In saline spots, Zwartkops R., Z. Z.! Drege. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk. 
A stemless perennial. Radical leaves numerous, spreading like a star on 
ground, petiolate, pinnately divided, albo-tomentose beneath, cobwebby, but becom- 
ing glabrate above, the lobes coarsely toothed, the teeth pungent ; the lower lobes 
short and distant, the upper close together and larger. Flower-heads numerous, 
crowded in a sessile tuft, covering the crown of the root. sorek ware 
very shar ed, rigi ing. Cor, e. Much white woo! uw 
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