Sphenogyne. | COMPOSITA (Harv.) 141 
Stems 2-4 inches high, in pulvinate tufts. Leaves 14-2 inches long, the lobes 
not 4 line wide, sometimes all short and simple, sometimes 3 inch long and bifid or 
trifid. Pedune. reddish, at length glossy and glabrous. 
10. 8. macropoda (DC. 1. c.683); stems numerous, suffruticose, short, 
tufted, subsimple, appressedly silky-canescent ; leaves crowded, the 
younger appressedly silky, the older glabrescent, petiolate, pinnate- 
parted above the middle, the lobes few (2-3 pair), linear, elongate, 
thickish, mucronulate, simple; pedune. very long, glabrous; outer iny.- 
scales linear-lanceolate, thinly silky or glabrate, acuminate ; rays con- 
colourous ; pales subdenticulate. 
Has. On the Giftberg, 1500-2500 f.; on the Kandeberg, 3-4000 f. and Ezelbank, 
Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stems 2-6 inches high, closely leafy, ending in a one-headed peduncle, 10-15 inches 
long. Leaves 2-3 inches long, more than half the rachis petiolar ; pinne 2-3 pair, 
3-1 inch long, erecto-patent. Membranous tops of the inner inv.-scales fewer and 
less expanded than usual. Rays pale yellow. With the habit of S. Dregeana this 
differs in pubescence, foliage, and the much narrower and longer invol.-scales. 
11. §. sericea (Less. Syn. 243); suffruticose, erect, branched, densely 
clothed with short, soft, close-lying, silky and silvery tomentum ; 
branches densely leafy ; leaves on longish petioles, pinnatisect or bi- 
pinnatisect above the middle, the lobes long or short, narrow, blunt or 
acute, simple or divided ; peduncles elongate, tomentose, one-headed ; 
invol. thinly tomentose, the outer scales ovate-oblong, obtuse or sub- 
acute ; rays concolourous ; pales denticulate. DC. U. c. 683. Arctotis 
sericea, Thunb.! Cap. p. 713. 
Has, Cape, Thunberg! Cederberg, Drege! Tulbagh, Eckl./ 24 Rivers, Zey./ 
= 5- os gle Kloof, Dr. Wailich! Winterhoeksberg, Pappe! (Herb. D., Sd., 
Stems diffuse at base, or erect, simple or much-branched, 6-12 incheslong. Leaves 
either simply or doubly pinnati-parted, always with the lower half bare of lobes or 
petiolar. Pubescence very soft and close, pale or white. Pedune. 6-15 inches long. 
‘The inv.-scales vary in being acute or obtuse. 
12. S. abrotanifolia (R. Br.); shrubby, erect, branched, clothed with 
soft, short, curled, pale, woolly hairs; branches elongate, densely leafy ; 
leaves bi-tri-pinnatisect, the segments narrow-linear, divergent, acute, 
the lowest short and subsimple ; peduncles elongate, tomentose, one-— 
headed; outer inv.-scales densely tomentose, acute; rays concolourous ; 
pale toothed at the apex. Less. Syn. p. 243. DC. l. c. 683. 
Has. Paarl-berg, Drege/ Dr. Alexander Prior! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A shrub, 1-2 f. high ; the erect, curved, leafy branches 10-12 inches long, exclu- 
sive of peduncle. Leaves 14-2 inches long, about an inch wide, the multifid lobes 
3 line wide, flat and thinnish. Pubescence greyish, villous on the leaves, shorter on 
stem and pedunc. Pedunc. 6-10 inches long. 
13. S. subhirsuta (DC. 1. c. 683); shrubby, flexuous, branched, 
thinly clothed with soft, curled, woolly hairs; leaves sub-bi-pinnatisect, 
the lowest 4—5 pair of segments short, simple, the upper 3-4 pair longer, 
and pinnati-partite, lobes and lobules linear, acute ; pedunc. villous, 
2~3 times as long as the leaves, one-headed ; invol. glabrescent, outer 
invol.-scales oblong, obtuse, membrane-tipped, brown ; rays concolour- 
ous ; paleze truncate. 
