100 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [ Pteronia 
Much branched, the old branches glabrate. Leaves 4-5 lines long, 1} wide, 
often with axillary tufts. Heads 4-% inch long, 4 inch diam., the inv.-scales horn- 
coloured at the edge, dark-centred. Pappus rufescent. 
8. P. incana (Less.! in Hb. Thunb.); divaricate ; twigs and leaves 
thinly tomentose-canescent ; leaves opposite, crowded, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, sessile ; heads terminal, solitary, sessile, 6-9-fl. ; invol.-scales 
glabrous, oblong, subobtuse, entire, with a very narrow membranous 
margin ; achenes topshaped, densely and rigidly hairy. Zey.! 2771. 
DC. 1. ¢. 358. Pt. xantholepis, DO. 1.c. Eupatorium cinereum, Thunb.! 
Cap. 627. Chrysocoma incana, Burm. 
Has. Caledon, Mundt! Attaqua’s Kloof, Dr. Gill/ Swellendam and Uitenhage, 
E. 2.1 Albany, T. W. Tulbagh, Pappe/ Kaus, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A scrubby, much-branched, canescent bush, the short ramuli tipped with sessile, 
shining fl.-heads. Tnvol.-scales at first greenish-yellow, then fulvous and finally 
brown in centre. Pappus foxy. Lys. 3-6 lines long, 1-14 line wide. 
9. P. cinerea (Linn. f. Supp. 356); young twigs and leaves tomen- 
tose-canescent ; leaves opposite, oblong-linear, sessile, flat, thickish, 
obtuse or subacute, crowded, somewhat nerve-keeled ; heads oval, 
pluri-flowered, terminal, solitary, sessile ; invol.-scales dorsally cobweb- 
tomentose, ovate-oblong or ovate, obtuse, membrane-edged and ciliolate- 
lacerate ; achenes silky-villous. Thunb.! Cap. 632. DC.l.c.; also Pt. 
canescens, DC.! l.c. 358. 
Has. Cape, Thb.! Onderbockeveld and Zeederberge, Drege/ (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A small, scrubby, hairy bush ; the older branches becomi brous. Lys. 4-5 
lines long, 1-2 1. wide. Heads 3 in. long, 3-4 1. in diam. . 8 P. canescens quite 
agrees with the original specimens of Pt. cinerea, in Hb, Thunb. 
10. P. lucilioides (DC. 1. c. 358); slender, the twigs and leaves 
canescent with very short, close, powdery (swollen) scabrid hairs ; lvs.’ 
opposite, linear or spathulate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, entire, 
nerveless ; heads terminal, solitary, sessile, 7—9-fl.; inv. oblong; its scales 
oblong, obtuse, dry, glabrous, entire, closepressed ; achenes densely 
silky-villous. 
Var. 8. sparsifolia; rameal leaves often alternate or imperfectly opposite. 
Has. Near the Gariep in Little Namaqualand, Drege! 6. Namaqualand, A. 
Wyley/ (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A slender, much-branched, pale shrub ; the twigs at length glabrescent. ‘Leaves 
3-6 lines long, }-1 line wide, subdistant or close, the rameal often bearing leaf-tufts. 
Pubescence scabrous, composed of minute, conical, vertical hairs. Invol. glossy, 
pale straw-colour. Specimens of this plant, from Drege, in Hb. Hk. and Sd. are 
marked “‘ P, gymnocline.” - 
11, P. erythrocheta (DC. 1. c. 358); divaricate, nearly glabrous (the 
young parts minutely pubescent); leaves opposite, crowded, sessile, 
ovate or oblong, obtuse, glaucous, thick and nerveless; heads terminal, 
solitary, sessile, 4~5-flowered ; invol.-scales shorter than the disc, ovate- 
oblong, acute, glabrous, dorsally lined, membrane-edged ; pappus bright 
red ; ach. rigidly hairy. 
Has. Sack R., Burch. Zw. Ruggens, Dreye! George, Pappe / (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A very rigid, robust, SRE, oe cestian Seabee aimee Twigs densely 
> 1-2 inches long. Lys, 3~4 lines long, 2 1. wide, the upper imbricating. 
