168 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [Schistostephiwm. 
or less silky, the lobes in 2-4 pair, oblong, acutely mucronate, entire or 
the uppermost with a lateral, spreading lobe, the terminal sometimes 
trifid ; corymb simple or compound, few or several-headed ; pedicels 
short ; heads subglobose ; inv.-scales glabrate, in several rows, loosely 
imbricating ; fl. glabrous ; achenes without pappus. 
Has. Betw. Omcomas and Omblas, Drege! Natal, Krauss, 149 ; Gueinzius, 333, 
590. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) : 
Very similar to 7. hippiefolium, but with more terete stems, a copious or scanty 
silky pubescence, and fewer leaf-lobes, which are commonly quite entire, with thicken- 
ed edges, sometimes lobed (but not sharply toothed), Hds. nearly as in 7. hippiefol. 
3. T. griseum (Harv.); suffruticose, erect, all parts densely silky- 
canescent; branches virgate, closely leafy below, pedunculoid upwards, 
one-headed ; leaves sessile, pinnati-partite, the lobes in 2 pair, linear, 
acute, one-nerved, with revolute margins ; peduncles elongate, nearly 
nude; inv.-scales linear-lanceolate, acute, silky ; flowers 4-toothed, all 
perfect ; pappus none; achenes glabrous. 
Has. Umboti District, Natal, W. 7. Gerrard, 1050. (Herb. D.) 
1-2 ft. high, branched in the lower half; the branches straight, erect, 10-18 inches 
long, closely leafy in the lower half, pedunculoid upwards. Pedunc, 3-6 inches 
long, one-headed. Heads nearly } inch across, homogamous. Corolla-tube terete, 
not winged ; lobes short, bluntish. The foliage is something like that of Schistost. 
crategifolium, but the inflorescence is quite different, and the heads are homogamous. 
LXIII. SCHISTOSTEPHIUM, Less. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous, discoid; marginal-fl. female, with very 
short, bilabiate corollas ; disc-fl. bisexual (but commonly abortive), 
4-toothed. Jnvol.imbricate. Recept. convex, naked. Achenes sessile ; 
of the dise glabrous, ovuliferous, with bifid styles; of the margin silky- 
villous, obovate. Pappusnone. Less. Syn. p. 251. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 
74, also Tanacetum, Sec. V. Hippioides, DC. l. c. 134. 
Shrubby, suffruticose or half-herbaceous perennials, silky or tomentose in all parts. 
Leaves alternate, flabelliform and many-nerved, or pinnatisect, Heads corymbose. 
Flowers yellow: the marginal female-fl. not longer than the disc, bilabiate, the inner 
lip toothlike, the outer deeply 3-toothed. Name from cxi(w, to cut and orTepos, & 
crown ; alluding to the deeply-toothed marginal or ray-flowers. 
Leaves petiolate, roundish or flabelliform : 
Shrubby, silvery ; lvs. lobulate ; inv.-scales obtuse ... (1) flabelliforme. 
Herbaceous, green ; lvs. toothed ; iny.-scales lanceolate (2) rotundifolium. 
Leaves sessile, pinnatifid, the upper segments toothed or cut (3) crategifolium. 
1. §. flabelliforme (Less. Syn. 251) ; shrubby, erect, branches and 
leaves silvery-canescent, with short, close, silky pubescence ; leaves 
petiolate, roundish-flabelliform, 3—5-nerved, cuneate at base, crenate 
or shortly and bluntly 3—5-9-lobed ; corymb terminal, branched, densely 
many-headed ; inv. silky, scales ovate-oblong, shorter than the flowers ; 
marginal-flowers female, with very short corollas, and flatted, pilose 
een Schistostephium argyreum, Fenzl. Tanacetum argyreum, DC.! 
¢. 134, 
Has. Cape, Krebs. Near Grahamstown, and betw. Morley and Omtata, Drege! 
> Hie 8a) Genl. Bolton! Howison's Poort, H. Hutton! Zey.! 2833. (Her 
1-2 feet high, virgate, with the habit of Pentzia flabelliformis. Leaves ¥ inch 
