Sphenogyne. | COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 149 
ing glabrate ; leaves crowded, half-clasping, oblong or lanceol.-oblong, 
nerved, coarsely and sharply serrate; pedunc. terminal and axillary, nu- 
merous, long, sub-corymbose, with a few small, subulate Iéaf-scales ; 
theanvol. scales amply membrane tipped; rays concolourous; achenes 
quite glabrous. Arctotis serrata, Thunb.! Cap.705. Ursinia serrata, Poir. 
Sph. Sonneratii, Cass. 
Has. Cape, Thunb.! Burchell, 5965. Bowie! Swellendam, Mundt.! Grootvaders- 
bosch, Zey.! 2806. (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 2-3 ft. high, 3—4 lines in diameter, but full of pith, imbricated with leaves 
throughout. Leaves 1-14 inches long, 3-5 lines wide, obtuse, equally serrate 
throughout, the serratures obliquely deltoid. Invol. 4-3 inch diam., all the scales 
amply membranous and convex. Rays golden yellow. Thunberg’s specimens are 
more slender than the others cited above, with narrower and longer and more 
pubescent leaves, but otherwise the same. 
40. S. incisa (DC. 1.c. 688); “suffruticose, puberulous ; leaves elongate- 
oblong, dilated upwards, inciso-serrate, the serratures acuminate, thelower 
ones small and distant, the upper close and longer ; pedune. four times 
longer than the leaves; rays concolourous.” DC. 1. c. 
Has. Swellendam, Burchell, No. 7008 (fide DC.) 
‘* Leaves 1} inch long, 2-3 lines wide at base, 4—5 lines at apex.” DC, 
41, §. tridentata (Harv.); suffruticose, villoso-pubescent ; leaves 
sessile, oblong-tongue-shaped, one-nerved, inciso-pinnatifid, the marginal 
and terminal lobes sharply 2-3 toothed at the truncate apex, those of the 
upper leaves simple or bidentate ; pedunc. elongate, numerous, with a 
few small, subulate leaf-scales ; all the inv. scales amply membrane- 
tipped ; rays concolourous; achenes with a few basal hairs.—Sph. serrata, 
Herb. Eckl.! 
Has. Cape Ecklon! (Hb. Sond.) 
Much more villous than S. serrata, less robust, with differently cut leaves. Leaves 
« inch long, the undivided portion 1-2 lines wide, the lobes 1-2 lines long. Heads 
smaller than in S. serrata. ' 
42. S. odorata (R. Br.) ; “shrubby, glabrous ; leaves flat, inciso-pin- 
natifid at the apex ; pappus obsolete; rays discoloured.” Less. Syn. 244. 
DC. 1. ¢. 688. Anthemis odorata, Ait. Kew. 3. p. 238. 
Has. Formerly cultivated in England from Cape seeds: now lost in gardens. 
43. S. pilifera (Less.! Syn.244,non DC.?); suffruticose, thinly pilose ; 
leaves pinnati-partite, the lobes 7-12 pairs, narrow-linear, the lower sim- 
ple, the upper 2-3 fid, all tipped with a long, white bristle, dotted, nearly 
glabrous; pedunc. elongate, pubescent near the top; all the invol. scales 
amply membrane edged and tipped; ligules discoloured ; palez Jacerate- 
toothed. <Arctotis pilifera, Thunb. ! Cap. 712. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Riv. Zonder Einde, Zey.! (Herb. Th., Sd.) 
Slightly woody at base, simple or branched from the base, the leafy portion 6-8 
inches long, ending in a striate peduncle 6-9 inches long. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 
the lower lobes 3-4 lines long, the upper rather longer, and except on the upper 
leaves, 2-3 fid, all dotted, tapering to the point. Heads an inch in diameter, the 
rays white above, coppery beneath. 
44, §. scariosa (R. Br.) ; “shrubby, glabrous ; leaves pinnatisect, the 
