110 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) — [Pteronw. 
imbricate, scales ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, opaque, with spread- 
ing points, quite entire, scarcely or not at all margined; (flowers and 
achenes not seen). 
Has. Howhoek Pass, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) : 
Suffruticose or shrubby, erect, not much branched, the whole plant pale or greyish, 
and rough like a file to the touch. Leaves 7-8 lines long, 1 line wide. Heads 
(immature) about an inch long, and 4-5 lines wide at base, the scales with free points, 
though closely imbricated. This seems to be a distinctly marked plant, but unfor- 
tunately the only specimen I have seen is immature. 
Sect. 3. Pterophorus. Heads many fl. Recept. fimbrilliferous. Achenes beakless, 
plano-compressed, quite glabrous. Pappus concrete in a ring, sub-uniseriate. 
51. P. camphorata (Linn. Sp. 1176); stem mostly scabrous ; leaves 
scattered or tufted (rarely opposite), linear-filiform, acute, rigidly ciliate 
or glabrous; heads terminal, solitary or sub-corymbose, sessile or on 
nearly naked (very sparsely leafy) branches; invol. scales lanceolate, 
acuminate, keeled, serrulato-ciliate, shorter or longer than the disc ; 
recept. fimbriate and deeply pitted; achenes flattened, glabrous. 
Var. a, armata ; stem very rough with simple or jointed hairs, or rough points ; 
leaves rigidly ciliate and often bristly, 4-1 inch long; invol. shorter than disc. P. 
camphorata, Thunb. Cap, 629, DC... 364. Lam. Ill. t. 667. F. 1. Zey./ 809 (ex pte-) 
Var. 8. stricta; stem villous-hirsute ; leaves very densely crowded, uncial, ciliate 
at base; invol. scales much acuminate, often longer than the dise. P. stricta, Att. 
DC. tl. c. 364. 
Var. y. longifolia; branches minutely-scabrous ; leaves 1-2 inches long, remotely 
ciliate or glabrous, very densely crowded ; heads sessile, fl. branches corym) , leafy. 
P. aspera, DC.! l.c. 364. Zey.1 2776. 
Van. 8. aspera; branches minutely scabrous ; leaves 4—5 lines long, laxly scattered, 
glabrous; fl. branches long and nearly bare of leaves ; invol. scales recurved-squarrose, 
P. aspera, Thunb.! Cap. 631. 
Var. e. levigata; branches and leaves quite glabrous and glossy ; leaves mostly 
opposite! glabrous, 5-6 lines long. Zey.! 810, 
Has. About Capetown andin the Western districts generally. §.Caledon, Mundt! 
Zwarteberge, Drege! y. Stellenbosch and Swellendam, #.§7./ Paarl, Drege! 
Banks of Erste Riv., W.H.H. Riv. Zonderende, Zey.! 5, only seen in Hb. Thunb.! 
€, 24-rivers, Zey. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
A shrub, 1-3 feet high, much branched and twiggy, and usually closely covered 
with filiform leaves ; but very variable in pubescence, and in the length and eters 
of the leaves. Involucres constantly pale straw colour or horny, the scales rigid, 
with a more or less developed reddish gland along the keel. I find no clear limits 
between the four first varieties; var. e, by its opposite leaves and glabrous stems 
and branches, has more character; but even on it the upper leaves are occasionally 
scattered, and here and there may be seen a minute rough point. 
Doubtful Species. 
Pt. elegans (Sch. B, mss.); “glabrous; stem (in the only specimen 
seen) one-headed, a span long, densely leafy; leaves opposite connate, 
thick, linear trigonons, acute, sub-ensiform, 1-14 inch long, sometimes 
with leaf-tufts; head 25-fl.; invol. 8 lines long, ovate-oblong, scales 
5-seriate, appressed, ovate-oblong, rounded, viscid at back, obscurely 
greenish-brown, towards the edge paler, and lacero-ciliate.” Walp. Rep- 
2. P. 9]0- 
Haz. Near Hemelendarde, Zwell. 
Judging by the description this is probably only P. tenuifolia, DC. 
