274 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) | Elytropappus. 
ones villoso-canescent, woolly, linear, twisted, mucronate, with a few 
scattered, pedicellate glands ; heads 3~4-fl., several together in terminal 
tufts, surrounded by a few floral leaves; inv. scales puberulous, brown- 
tipped, oblong, acute or subacute; achenes wrinkled across ; outer 
pappus cup-shaped, entire. Cyathopappus metalasioides, Sch. B. Cass. 
Onifl. p. 27. 
Has, Cederberge, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) ; 
Allied to £. spinellosus of which it has the remarkable cup-like outer pappus, but 
differing in foliage. Leaves 1}-2 lines long, the young ones white-woolly, the older 
gray and cobwebbed at least ; the upper ones chiefly gland-bearing. Heads several 
in a tuft. I have only seen a small frustule, but sufficient for identification. 
8. E. glandulosus (Less.! Syn. 343); leaves linear, terete-involute, 
mucronate, straight or twisted, erect or spreading, on the outside bearing 
few or many stalked glands; heads 2~4-fl. in small, sessile or peduncu- 
late tufts; inv. scales acute ; achenes smooth or striate lengthwise. DC./ 
lL. c. 256, also H. ambiguus, DC.! Stocbe scabra, Linn. Th.! Cap. 728. 
Var. a, longifolinus (DC) ; lvs. 6-8 lines long, crowded, spreading, very glandular ; 
tufts of heads sessile or peduncled (on the same root !). 
Var. 8. ambiguus ; lvs. 2-4 lines long, straight or twisted, more or less glandular ; 
tufts of heads as long as, or longer than the floral leaf. E. ambiguus, DC./ Le. Stoebe 
cinerea, Sieb. no. 20 (not Th.) Achyrocome ambigua, Schrank. Stoebe mucida, E.M. 
Var. y. microphyllus (DC.); lvs. 2-3 lines long, suberect or spreading ; tufts of 
heads shorter than the floral leaf. 
mk Western Districts, Thunberg! £.¢Z.! Drege. Elandsberg, Wallich! (Herb. 
.. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched bush, variable in branching, length of leaves, glands, and 
inflorescence. Ramuli sometimes densely scabrous-glandular, sometimes smooth 
and cobwebby. Glands sometimes closely fringing the leaves, sometimes on the 
back also; sometimes very few and scattered. I find it impossible to separate Z. 
ambiguus, DC., from the var. ‘‘ microphyllus” by any of the characters attributed to 
it, all of which vary in different specimens. 
4, E. canescens (DC.! 1. c. 256); leaves linear, terete-involute, mucro- 
nate, straight or twisted, spreading, not glandular, densely white-woolly; 
heads 2-3 fl., in a long, terminal spike ; outer inv. scales woolly, thinly 
villous, acute. 
Has. Clanwilliam, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
_ Perhaps a mere glandless and woolly var. of #. glandulosus, which varies greatly 
in woolliness and in copiousness of glands, I have only seenaspecimen with young 
5. E. Rhinocerotis (Less. ! Syn. 341) ; leaves minute, appressed, ob- 
tuse, smooth externally ; heads 3-fl., much longer than the floral-leaf ; 
inv. scales obtuse ; achenes smooth, furrowed, DC./ 1. c.256. Stoebe 
Rhinocerotis, Linn. f. Th.! Cap. 728. Stoebe cernua, Th.! 1. ¢. 
Has. Dry ground, throughout the colony, common. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Well known as the Rhinoster-bosch. Stems 1-2 ft. high, excessively branched and 
ramulous, the twigs closely covered with minute, scale-like leaves, Heads solitary; 
sessile, or on very minute ramuli. Inv. scales horn colour. 
6. E.? adpressus (Harv.) ; slender, much branched, virgate ; branches 
(with the leaves) filiform ; leaves most closely appressed, imbricated, 
linear, minute, subacute, nude, woolly edged; heads solitary in the 
