154 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Lidbeckia. 
Heads discoid; the marginal female fi. minute, tubular ..._ (1) pedunculare. 
Heads radiate; the marginal-fl. ligulate : 
Perennial. Rays linear, thrice as long asinvolucre... (2) radiatum. 
Annual, Rays oblong, very short ie oe (3) brachyglossum, 
1. L. pedunculare(Lag. Nov. Gen. p. 31); herbaceous, perennial ; leaves 
“membranaceous,” pinnati-partite, the lobes linear, here and there lobu- 
late ; invol. expanded, the scales oblong, obtuse ; heads discoid, the margi- 
nal female flowers minute, tubular. DC. 1. c. p.38. Santolina erecta, Lam. 
il. t.671.t.4 (eel. syn.). Sant. eriosperma, Pers. Schr. Hort. Monach. t. 67. 
Has. Sneeweberg, 5-6000 ft.; and Winterveld, near Groot-Tafelberg, 3-4000 f., 
Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd ) 
Known from the following chiefly by its discoid capitula. 
2. L. radiatum (Trev. Nov. Act. 13. 1.p.205); herbaceous, perennial ; 
leaves somewhat fleshy, pinnati-partite, the laciniz linear, sub-falcate, 
simple or with 2—3 linear lobes, all the apices sharply albo-mucronate ; 
inv. expanded, the scales broadly oblong, obtuse; heads radiate, the rays 
linear, thrice aslongastheinvolucre. DC.l.c.p. 38. Lidbeckia bipinnata, 
Thunb.! Cap. 694. Lancisia bipinnata, Pers. Matricaria bipinnata, Spr. 
Also Mataxa Capensis, Spr. 
Has. Langekloof, Thunberg! Zachriver, Burchell, No. 1404. Roggeveld, Eckl. ! 
Smaldeel and Uitvlugt, Zey.! 821; Albany, Mrs. Ff. W. Barber / (Herb. Th., Hk.,Sd., D.) 
2 or more feet high, diffusely branching, pale. Leaves 1-2 inches long, the upper 
laciniz 4-1 inch long, } line wide, the lower shorter and simpler, all erecto-patent. 
Upper leaves often quite entire, pedunc. 6-10 inches long, straw-colour. Rays white, 
} inch long or more. 
8. L. brachyglossum (DC. 1. c. 38); annual; somewhat fleshy bipin- 
nati-partite, the lobes or lobules spreading, linear, acute or mucronate ; 
iny. shorter than the disc, the scales oblong, obtuse; heads radiate, the 
rays oval-oblong, scarcely longer than the involucre. 
Has. Silverfontein, on the flats, 2000 f. Sep.-Oct. Drege! (Herb. D., Hk, Sd.) 
About a foot high, branched chiefly from the base. Leaves 14-2 inches long, the 
lobes divaricating. Pedunc. 2~3 inches long. Heads smaller than in the preceding, 
and the rays very much shorter. 
LIL LIDBECKIA, Berg. 
Heads many-fl., radiate ; ray-fl. uniseriate, ligulate, neuter; disc-fl. — 
tubular, hermaphrodite, 4-toothed. Recept. flattish, bearing a few fili- 
form shreds. Inv. 2—3-seriate, the scales as long as the disc. Branches 
of the disc-style truncate. Ovaries of the ray-fl. abortive. Achenes of 
of disc fertile, wingless, glabrous, without pappus, longitudinally ribbed, 
crowned by a cylindrical nectary. DC. Prodr.6, p. 39. 
Suffruticose or half herbaceous. Leaves alternate, lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes 
oblong or linear, entire, mucronate. Branches ending in one-headed peduncles. 
Rays white ; disc yellow. Name in honour of Eric Gustavius Lidbeck, formerly 
Professor of Botany at Lund, Sweden. 
- Glabrescent, glaucous ; leaves subsessile, oblong, pinnatifid ... (1) pectinata. 
Copiously a leaves petioled, palmately 3 plebad fo nay lobata. 
1. L. pectinata (Berg. Cap. 307, t. 5, £. 9); glabrate ; leaves subsessile, 
oblong, pinnatifid, glaucous beneath, punctate, sparsely pilose, the lobes 
