150 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [Ursinia. 
segments linear-filiform, very entire, mucronulate ; pedunc. 2-3 times 
longer than leaves, outer inv. scales altogether scarious, subrotund ; rays 
sub-discoloured ; pales truncate ; achenes softly and thinly villous. 
DC.1.¢.p.688. Less.Syn.244. Aretotis scariosa, Willd, excl. syn. Th. Urst- 
nia scariosa, Poir. : 
Var. a, brevipes (DC.); peduncles very short. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, No. 5451. B, Cape, Drege (fide DC.) 
Doubtful Species. 
8. pilifera (DC. 1. c. p. 688, non Less.) ; “ shrubby, diffuse ; leaves 
pinnati-sect, fleshy, spreading and shortly hispid, lobes linear-tipped 
with a bristle; pedicels long, sub-hispid; outer inv. scales obtuse, with 
a narrow membranous margin; rays discoloured ; pales truncate; pappus 
scales obovate, rather shorter than the achene,” DC.—-Bot. Reg. t. 604, 
and Jacq. Scheenbr. t. 155, fide DC. 
XLIX. URSINIA, Gertn. 
Character the same as that of Sphenogyne, except: 1, Achenes obovate 
or pear-shaped, oblique, distinctly tapering to the base, quite glabrous, 
with 5 obscure ribs; 2, Pappus biseriate, the outer (as in Sphenogyne) 
of 5 broad, obovate, white, spirally rolled scales, the inner of 5 slender, 
white bristles. DC. 1. c. 688. 
Herbs or suffrutices with completely the habit of Sphenogyne, and undistinguishable 
except by the above characters. Leaves pinnate-partite. Name unexplained. 
Root perennial, Stem suffruticose or herbaceous. Rays mostly discoloured. 
- Stems short, densely tufted. Pedunc. scape-like. 
Leaf-lobes thickish, bluntly mucronulate ... (1) montana. 
Leaf-lobes tipped with a white, subulate point (2) apiculata. 
Stems elongate, diffuse, branched. 
All the inyol. scales membr. tipped, obtuse ... (3) paradoxa, 
Outer inv. scales ovate, subacute: palez toothed : 
Quite glabrous; stemshorter than pedunc. (4) tenuiloba. 
Glabrescent; stem 6-12 incheslong ... (5) affinis, 
Outer inv. scales ovate-acuminate, very acute (6) chrysanthemoides. 
Root annual. Rays concolourous. 
All the inv. scales membrane-tipped, obtuse... ... (7) speciosa. 
Outer inv. scales ovato-lanceolate, very acute ... (8) cakilefolia. 
Outer inv. scales ovate, obtuse or subacute ....... (g) annua, 
Outer inv. scales ovate, setaceo-acuminate. Palez 
tipped with a reniform scale ... ... ... ... (10) pygmea. 
1. U. montana (DC. 1. c.688); shrubby, ascending, depressed, scarcely 
branched, the short stem and branches pubescent ; lvs. densely crowded, 
pinnati-partite, pubescent, becoming glabrate, the lobes thickish, terete, 
“the lowest very minute, and acute” (DC.), the upper linear or bifid, 
bluntly mucronulate ; pedunc. naked, elongate; outer invol. scales 
glabrous, ovate-oblong, obtuse, dark-edged and membrane-tipped; rays 
small, discoloured ; palez truncate, 
Has. On the Wit -8000 ft., Drege! (Herb. Hook. , 
I have only seen opt! aaron pcs The jew scarcely uncial, 
pinnated above the middle, the lowest lobes (above described) not visible ; several of 
the upper lobes bifid. 
