152 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Ursinia. 
6. U. chrysanthemoides (Harv.); half-herbaceous or suffruticose, 
glabrescent ; stems diffuse or ascending, often rooting from the lower 
nodes ; leaves sub-bipinnati-partite, the lobes linear, acute or mucro- 
nate, spreading, either all compound or the lower ones simple, the upper 
2-3-fid or pinnate; pedunc. elongate; outer inv. scales ovate-acuminate 
or sublanceolate, very acute, glabrous; pales tipped with a roundish- 
reniform scale, the outer ones sheathing, the inner narrow, linear-spa- 
thulate ; rays usually more or less discoloured ; inner disc-fl. often (if 
not always) abortive. Sphenogyne chrysanthemoides, Less.! in Hb. Thb.! 
DC. 1. c. 682. Aretotis anthemoides (ex pte.) and Arct. paradoxa (ex pte. ). 
Thunb.! in Herb. Ursinia albicaulis, U. pedunculosa, U. radicans, and 
U. filicaulis, DC. 1. c. 689. Zey. ! 2796, 2794. 
Has. Wet places, throughout the Colony. Cape Flats, 2. Z.! Drege / Simons- 
town, C. Wright! 398; Steendal, Tulb., Dr. Pappe! Swellendam, and on the 
Gariep, Namaqualand, Drege! Algoa Bay and Uitenhage, Drege! Zey.! &c. (Hb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
6-12 inches high, diffusely branched. Stems sometimes cobwebby ( UV. albicaulis). 
Leaves 1-2 inches long, mostly bipinnate, sometimes very slender (U. filicaulis). 
Pedune. 3-6 inches long or longer ( U. pedunc.). Rays } inch long, sometimes con- 
colourous, but more commonly faintly, or fully discoloured. It is known from U. 
paradoxa by the inv. scales and pale. I can find no limits between the four species 
of DC. here united. Lessing’s plant (in Hb. Thunb.) is evidently the same, though 
not being in fruit, he has mistaken its genus. 
7. U. speciosa (DC. 1. c. 690); herbaceous, annual, erect, branching, 
glabrous ; leaves pinnati-partite or sub-bi-pinnati-partite, the lobes 
linear, flat, midribbed, the lower short and simple, the upper pinnatifid 
and toothed, all bristle-pointed ; pedunc. elongate ; all the inv.-scales 
tipped with a broad, obtuse membranous-scale ; rays concolourous ; 
palez truncate. 
_ Has. Between Kaus, Natvoet and Doornpoort, and Silverfontein, Namaqualand, 
Drege! (Hb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
About a foot high, with pale, straw-like stems. Leaves 14-2 inches long, the 
lobes nearly 1 line wide, mostly compound. Pedune. 4-6 inches long. Invol. }-« 
inch across, the rays fully an inch long. 
8. U. cakilefolia (DC. 1 c. 690); herbaceous, annual, erect, branch- 
ing, glabrous ; leaves somewhat fleshy, pinnati-partite, the lobes linear, 
acute, the lowest very short or reduced to subulate teeth, the upper 
long, simple or 2-3-fid; pedunc. elongate; rays concolourous ; outer 
iny.-scales ovato-lanceolate, much acuminate, very acute, subscarious at 
tip ; outer palez tridentate. 
Has. Giftberg, Drege! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Six to twelve inches high. Leaves more simple than in J/. speciosa, from which 
this specially differs in its involucre. The scales are rather rigid, purple-tipped, and 
remarkably acuminate. Rays about an inch long, deep yellow or orange. 
9. U. annua (Less. Syn. 245) ; annual, diffuse, much-branched, gla- 
brous or nearly so; leaves somewhat fleshy, pinnati-partite, the lobes 
linear, obtuse or mucronulate, the lowest short (or obsolete), entire, the 
upper bi-trifid; pedune, shortish ; rays concolourous ; outer inv.-scales 
ovate, subacute or obtuse ; palez tridentate. 
Van, a, indecora; invol.-scales all concolourous, pale. U. indecora, DC. I. c. 699. 
