202 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Eriocephalus. 
kloof and Geelbekskraal, Drege! Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! Basutu-land, 
T. Cooper! 692; y, Witbergen and Sneeuwbergen, Drege / Stormberg, Wyley! 6, 
Onder Bokkeveld, Drege. (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Our var. 8 seems exactly intermediate between a and y. The species is best 
marked by its glabrous, dotted leaves and membrane-edged invol. ‘Leaves 3-4-6 
lines long, + line wide. I have not seen var, 5. On Mr. Cooper’s specimens the 
leaves are occasionally unidentate about the middle. 
_ 4. E. pteronioides (DC. 1. c. 146); “leaves opposite and alternate, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, thick, glabrous ; pedicels thrice as long asthe heads, 
sub-umbellate at the ends of the branches; outer inv. scales dorsally 
Cre os, not membrane-edged ; inner not septiferous ; ligules small.” 
DC. 1. ¢. : 
Has, Olifant’s R., Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
8. E. tuberculosus (DC. 1. c. 146); twigs glandular; leaves opposite 
and alternate, short, linear, subtrigonous, thickly sprinkled with pro- 
minent, glandular tubercles, otherwise glabrous ; heads at the ends of 
the branches spicate ; outer inv. scales 5, albo-membranous, with red- 
dish margin ; rays 2—3-lobed. 
Has. Modderfonteinsberg, Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
At once known by its curiously gland-tubercled leaves. I have not seen the fl.- 
heads, and copy De Candolle’s description of them. Leaves 2-3 lines long, very 
slender, closely placed. : : 
9. E. scariosus (DC. 1. c. 147); leaves alternate, linear, incurved, sub- 
acute, entire, thinly and closely pubescent ; pedicels 2-3 times as long 
as the fi.-heads, the lower axillary, sub-racemose, the uppermost sub- 
umbellate ; outer iny. scales glabrous or silky with a green middle and 
broadly membranous, white margin ; inner not septiferous; rays cuneate, 
elongate, 3-toothed. 
esi eg Natvoet and the Gariep, Drege/ Namaqualand, A. Wyley! (Herb. 
‘Leaves about an inch long, scattered. Rays longer and proportionably narrower 
than in other species. The pubescence is sometimes copious, sometimes scanty. 
10. E. umbellulatus (DC. 1. c. 147); leaves opposite and alternate, 
mostly tufted, linear, entire, silky-villous or silvery ; heads umbellate at 
the ends of the branches and twigs, pedicels 14-3 times as long as the 
fl.-heads ; outer iny. scales densely silky, membrane-edged ; inner not 
septiferous; rays broadly obovate, 3-toothed. £. Africanus, Sieb. ! Cap. 
No. 35. Krebs. No. 758. EH. racemosus, Gaertn. 2, t. 168. Lam. Dict. 717, 
f.2, Th.! Cap. p. 724 (ex pte.) E. paniculatus seu wmbellulatus, Cass. 
Var. 8. glabriusculus (DC.) ; leaves pubescent, the young ones silky ; pedicels 
twice as long as head ; inv.-scales glabrescent. . 
Var. y. argenteus (DC.) ; leaves silvery ; pedicels longish ; inv.-scales villous. 
Has, Rocky, dry places and roadsides, throughout the colony, common; +. in 
Namaqualand, Drege/ Wyley! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Often confounded in Herbaria with £. racemosus, which is much less common. 
Many of Drege’s distributed specimens marked “ racemosus” belong to this; also one 
of the specimens in Hb. Thunb.! It is readily known by its inflorescence and ray- 
flowers from all states of racemosus. . ; 
