140 composit& (Harv.) [ Sphenogyne. 
and slender; heads small ; outer inv. scales lanceolate, acute, minutely 
membrane-edged ; rays concolourous. DC. 1. ¢. p. 687. 
- Has. Draakensteenberg, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) : 
A straggling herb, possibly annual, 1-2 ft. high or more, branching above, pale. 
Leaves 1-14 inch long, the undivided portion 2-3 lines wide, the lateral teeth or 
lobes 2 lines long, spreading or recurved, acute. Pedunc. 4-8 inches long, curved, 
threadlike. Heads 3-4 lines wide. 
6. S. coronopifolia (Less. Syn. 244); suffruticose, erect, every part 
densely clothed with curled, woolly hairs ; leaves crowded, oblong- 
ligulate, subtruncate, sharply inciso-serrate along the sides and at the 
broad point, the serratures broadly subulate, mucronate ; uppermost 
leaves linear, acute, entire; peduncles elongate, terminal, one-headed ; 
outer invol.-seales densely woolly, acuminate ; rays concolourous; pales 
erose ; pappus sc. subdenticulate. DC. 1. ¢. p. 683. 
Has. Districts of Tulbagh and Worcester, Zeklon/ (Herb. Sond.) 
Stem a foot or more high, subsimple, with 2~3 short, erect, subterminal flowering 
branches. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 4 lines wide; the serratures spreading, with 
wide, rounded interspaces ; the summit of the lower leaves shortly 3-lobed, the 
middle lobe 3-toothed, the lateral 2-toothed. Pedunc. 5-6 inches long, densely 
woolly, Outer inyol,-sc. hidden in their copiously woolly covering. 
7. §. hispida (DC. 1. c. 683) ; suffruticulose, erect, softly hairy; 
leaves pinnatisect, the segments linear, mucronate-acute, entire ; heads 
nearly sessile above the uppermost leaves ; outer invol.-scales acute ; 
palez 3-toothed at apex ; rays concolourous, short. DC.l.c. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 6998 and 7035 (fide DC.) Cape, Bowie (in Hb. Hook). 
I have not seen Burchell’s specimens on which this species was founded. One 
from Bowie, in Hb. Hook, is a branch about 5-6 inches long, closely leafy to the 
summit. Leaves imbricated, ? inch long, with about 3 pair of shortly mucronate 
pinnz, densely villous. Heads small, terminal, sessile, the invol. densely villous ; 
inner scales with an oblong membranous apex of moderate size. 
8, 8. brachypoda (Harv.) ; suffruticose, erect, slender, much-branched, 
softly hairy ; leaves laxly set (short), pinnatisect, the segments 2-3 
pair, linear, mucronate, entire, the lowest short ; heads few-flowered, 
on peduncles scarcely longer than the leaves; invol. woolly, the outer 
scales blunt; paleze bluntly 3-toothed; rays coppery at back, short, 
bidentate. 
Has. Voormansbosch, Swellendam, Zey./ 2798. (Herb. Sond., Hook.) 
Twelve to 18 inches high, the young stems thinly villous, the older glabrate. 
Leaves 4 inch long, the upper lobes 3 lines, the lowest 4-1 line long. Heads 3-4 
lines.in diameter; the rays not twice as long as the involucre. The habit is that 
of S, dentata, save the very short, scarcely uncial peduncles, 
9. 8. Dregeana (DC. |. c. 683); stems numerous from a woody crown, 
short, tufted, subsimple, tomentose ; leaves densely crowded, clothed 
with long, soft hairs, pinnate-partite, the lobes linear, mucronate, entire 
(or the uppermost 2-3-fid), on each side several, the lowest shortest ; 
peduncles very long (8-12 inches), glabrescent, one-headed ; outer inv.- 
Rene — acuminate, thinly pilose; rays concolourous; pales bluntly 
Tun Soe eae 
Haz. On the Gift-berg, Drege! 1g00-2500f. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
