Ursinia.] COMPOSIT (Hary.) 151 
2. U. apiculata (DC. 1. c. 689); shrubby, tufted, depressed, glabrous; 
leaves pinnati-partite, all the lobes tipped with a white, conico-subulate, 
cap-like mucro, the lower lobes very short, subulate, the upper longer, 
linear or 2—3-fid; pedune. naked, elongate, outer inv. scales ovate, obtuse, 
dark-edged and slightly membrane-tipped ; rays discoloured; palex 
obtuse. - 
Has. On the Sneeuwebergen, 5-6000 feet, Drege! also collected by Ecklon! 
Elandsberg, 7’. Cooper! 218. Kreilis country, H. Bowker! 281. Natal, J. Sanderson! 
(Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Root thick and woody. Stems numerous, 3-4 inches long, subsimple, forming a 
dense tuft. Leaves about uncial, the lobes below the middle reduced to teeth, the 
upper 3-4 lines long. In habit it is like the foregoing, but differs from that and the 
following by the remarkable, ivory-white tips to the leaf-lobes. These are, however, 
variable, and much less evident in the specimens from Kreilis country and Natal, 
which in other respects are very similar. 
3. U. paradoxa (Gertn. Less.! Syn. 245); suffruticose at base ; stems 
diffuse, ascending, nearly glabrous; leaves pinnati-partite, the lower 
lobes short, subulate (or tooth-like), entire, the upper linear, simple or 
2-3-fid, all sharply mucronate; peduncles longish ; all the invol. scales 
membrane-tipped, obtuse ; rays strongly discoloured ; pale subtrun- 
cate (not appendiculate). DC. 1. c. 689. <Arctotis paradoxa, Linn. Th. 
Cap. 712. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ (Herb. Thunb.) 
Stems 6-12 inches long, simple or branched, laxly leafy. Leaves thickish, 14 in. 
long, the upper lobes 3-5 lines long, all tapering to a very acute point, but scarcely 
setaceous. Heads at least an inch across, with long rays ; outer inv. scales brown, 
rigid, with an expanded, membrane tip. Rays coppery beneath.—I have only seen 
this in Hb. Thunb.; Drege’s specimens, quoted by DC., so far as I have seen, belong 
to U. chrysanthemoides as does also one of the specimens, marked “ paradora,” in 
Herb. Thunb.—These species are easily distinguished by their inv. scales and palex. 
4. U. tenuiloba (DC. 1. c. 689) ; “quite glabrous; stem suffruticu- 
lose, subdecumbent, short, sparingly branched ; leaves pinnate-parted, 
the lobes linear, aristate-acuminate, the lower shorter, entire, the upper 
2-3-lobed ; pedunc. longer than the stem; pale obtusely toothed ; 
inner pappus a little shorter than the outer.” DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Katriversberg, Drege (fide DC.). 
Ecklon’s “ Sph. feeniculacea,” from Uitenhage, referred to by DC., seems to me to 
belong to U. annua. 
5. U. affinis (Harv.); perennial (?), herbaceous, many-stemmed, dif- 
fuse or procumbent, glabrescent or hispidulous; leaves pinnati-partite 
or sub-bipinnati-partite, the lower lobes short or tooth-like, subulate- 
acuminate, the upper 2—5-fid ; ped. elongate ; rays short, discoloured ; 
outer inv. scales ovate, subacute, dark-edged ; pale obtusely 3-toothed ; 
inner pappus rather longer than the outer. 
Has. Cape, E. Z./ 1494; between Hassaquaskloof and Riv. Zondereinde, Zey.! 
2793. (Herb. Sond.) 
Possibly the same as DC.’s U. tenuiloba.” Stems 6-12 inches long, laxly leafy. 
Leaves 1-1} inch long, the lower lobes sometimes wanting, often reduced to teeth. 
Heads 3-4 lines diameter, smaller than in UV’. annua, all the scales black-edged, pale- 
green on the disc ; the innermost with a dark-coloured scale. The stems are more 
rigid than in U. annua, the rays discoloured ; the root very fibrous, and possibly 
perennial. 
