88 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Vidorella. 
lateral lobes 2-4, lanceolate, acute ; corymb compound, many-headed. 
Var. §. glabriuscula ; thinly-pubescent ; the leaves sub-glabrous, narrow, with 
involute margins and channelled lobes. 
Has. Between the Zwartkey and Basche, Drege! Caledon, Dr. Pappe/ 8. Cape, 
Bowie! in Hb. Hk. (Herb. Hk., Cap.) ‘ 
Two feet high or more, rather robust, the tall, simple stem ending in many leafy 
flower-branches, nearly of equal height. Leaves 1-14 inch long. Invol. scales 
linear, subacute. Rays very short, obovate. 
3. N. resedeefolia (DC. 1. c. 322); herbaceous, erect, the stem and 
petioles sparsely bristly ; leaves scabrido-pubescent, amplexicaul, taper- 
‘ing at base into a petiole, the uppermost entire, the lower pinnate- 
parted, lobes in 1-2 pairs, oblong, blunt, mucronulate, the terminal 
broader, obovate-oblong ; corymb compound ; invol.-scales oblong, 
glabrous, ciliolate. Zey./ 804. 
Var. £. rapunculoides ; all the leaves entire, or the lowest inciso-lobulate. . 
rapunculoides, DC. p. 323. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, near the Gariep, Drege/ Caledon R., Burke and 
Zeyher! Zulu land, Miss Owen/ Natal, Sanderson! B. Neuweveld, Beaufort, and 
Zondag and Koega Rs., Drege! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
2 to 3 feet high, simple or branched ; the branches spreading, somewhat corym- 
bose. Leaves from a broad base, 14-24 inches long, the terminal lobe 3-5 lines 
wide. All the lobes suddenly mucronulate. Fl.-heads crowded. Drege’s specimen 
of N. rapunculoides, DC., in Hb. Hook. has the lower leaves inciso-lobulate. 
4. N, hirta (DC. 1. c. 322); “herbaceous, subsimple, erect; stem 
roughly hairy; leaves hairy-scabrid, the lower oblong, tapering at base 
into a long petiole, entire or here and there lobulate, the rest dilated 
at base and semiamplexicaul, pinnate-partite, the pinne in 1-2 pairs, 
oblong linear ; corymb compound, crowded; invol,-scales linear, acute, 
omewhat hairy at back.” DC... 
Has, On the Stormberg, 5-600 feet. Drege. (Unknown to me), 
“* Allied to N. resedeefolia. Cor. of ray deep yellow. Ligule very small. Lvs. 
often fascicled.” DC. ; de 
5..N. auriculata (DC. |. c. 322); herbaceous, erect, subsimple or 
corymbose, the whole plant shortly and closely pubescent or scabrous- 
pubescent ; leaves more or less distinctly eared at base, oblong or ob- 
ovate, the upper subsessile and entire or nearly so, the rest tapering at 
base into a long or short petiole and coarsely toothed, veiny beneath ; 
corymb compound, dense ; invol.-scales obtuse, thin, glabrescent and 
ciliolate. Erigeron Kraussi, Sch. B. 
Var. B. obovata; ears small; lvs. shortly petiolate, obovate. N. obovata, DC. tl. ¢. 
Var. y. Semecionidea; ears small; lower leaves on 1 io} blong. NV. sene- 
cionidea, DC.1.c. Zey.! 2768. ee ee 
Has. Districts of Uitenhage and Albany ; Kaffraria and Natal, common. (Hb. 
Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A coarse plant, 2 f. high, variable in the breadth and toothing, shape and pubes- 
cence of the leaves, sometimes with a large, rounded, earlike lobe at the base of 
the leaf, sometimes with a small and angular, or with an obsolete ear. Pubescence 
rigid, though short. I find it impossible to separate, by persistent characters, the 
3 species of De Candolle here united. One of the folia of “Inula fatida” in 
Herb. Th. belongs to this. 
