122 composiT& (Harv ) [ Pegolettia. 
Van. A. erigeroides; stem and foliage thinly pubescent, or glabrescent ; invol.- 
scales scabrous-pubescent ; achenes puberulous. P. erigeroides, DC. 1. ¢. p. 480. 
Has. Both varieties throughout the Colony, and on to Port Natal, Mundt! E. Z.! 
Drege! Gerr. and M‘K.! 275, Pappe! &c. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
One to 2 ft. high, robust, the villosity sometimes much less copious. Leaves 1-2 
inches long, }-} inch wide. Corymbs few or many-headed, Except in being more 
slender and less hairy 8. does not differ. 
XXXV. PEGOLETTIA, Cass. 
Heads many-fl., homogamous. ecept. naked, dotted, fiat. nvol. 
imbricate in 2-3 rows, shorter than the flowers ; scales acute. Corolla 
tubular 5-fid, regular (or sub-ringent). Anthers 2-tailed at base. Achenes 
cylindrical, rib-striate, beakless. Pappus in two or three rows, the 
inner of long, rigid, straight, serrato-ciliate (rarely plumose) bristles ; 
the outer much shorter, either of flat, entire or lacerate, unequal scales, 
or of bristles nearly similar to those of the inner pappus. DC. Prod. 5, 
p. 481. Pegolettia and Carphopappus, Sch. Bip. 
Small, rather rigid African half-shrubs or herbs, with something the aspect of 
Pteronie. Leaves alternate, dotted, elliptical or linear. Heads solitary at the end 
of the branches, yellow. In the few species of which this genus consists the pappus 
varies so much, from species to species, that if strictly insisted on as of generic value, 
the genus might be broken up into almost as many genera as there are species. In 
P. Senegalensis the inner bristles are quite plumose; in all the 8S. African species on 
the contrary, they are simply ciliate-barbellate: but the outer pappus presents even 
wider discrepancies. Nevertheless, I do not think it advisable to follow Schultz 
Bip. in breaking up the genus. The name is in honour of some botanist? 
ceolate, acuminate. 6.0... Se ae. (1) “Oxyodonta. 
Shrubby, nearly glabrous ; lys. petioled, oval or oblong, 
subacute, thick... ... ... .....-. -. .«- ... (5) baccharidifolia. 
Leaves quite entire : 
—. much-branched ; lvs. petioled, oval or obovate, 
WOOO ee a a a hes lygalifolia, 
Suffruticose ; lvs. oblong, tapering to both ends, glan- ice 
dularly pubescent... (2) acuminata. 
Subherbaceous, scabrous; lvs. linear-lanceolate, hispid; 
achenes pubescent... ... 11. sss +2. «0. oes (3) Lancoolata. 
Herbaceous, slender, hispid; lvs. elliptic-oblong, taper- 
iny ty Dow) OMGe c0. 2 es as a, a ee eee 
1. P. oxyodonta (DC. 1. c. 481) ; herbaceous, stem glabrous below, 
glandular and viscidulous above ; leaves sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, 
acuminate, sub-pungent, sharply few-toothed at the sides, glanduloso- 
pubescent and viscid; invol.-scales pluriseriate, acuminate, the inner 
broader and ciliate, the outer glandular-pubescent ; heads many-fl. ; 
pappus biseriate, the outer of many short, flat, obtuse, unequal scales. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, near the Gariep, Drege! A. Wyley! . D., Hk., Sd. 
Stems several from a woody base, 6-9 mad high, madara ee neste 
erect. Leaves 1-2 inches long, 4-7 lines wide, the teeth subulate jecting. 
Heads 30-40-fl. Achenes sprinkled with gland-tipped hairs. ee 
2. P. acuminata (DC.1.c.); “suffruticose, glandular toward the 
apex ; leaves oblong, entire, acuminate at both ends ; inv.-scales much 
acuminate, loosely imbricate; pappus biserial, the outer shorter.” DC. 
