280 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Stoebe. 
- (3.) Heads in cylindrical or elongated and interrupted, compound-spikes. Leaves 
fascicled 
Leaves slender; heads in a long, dense, cylindr, spike. 2 
Achenes with many toothed ribs, and an annulus (17) alopecuroides. 
Leavesvarious; headsin aninterrupted, elongate spike. 
Achenes angled and furrowed, wrinkled, across 
without annulus leo eis Sweet Sauer apk cc. (10) EOE 
1. S. gomphrenoides(Berg.! Cap. 336); erect, subsimple ; leaves ellip- 
tic-oblong, erect, imbricating, concave, villoso-ciliate ; heads in a globose 
cluster; inv. compressed, cream-white, scales taper-pointed; achenium 
4-angled, silvery-tomentose; pappus of 5-plumes. Thunb. ! Cap. 726. 
Less. Syn. 346. DG. 1.c. 259. S. gnaphalioides, Houtt. t. 34. f.1. non Th. 
Metalasia pulcherrima, Hb. Eckl.! (non Less.!) 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Mundt.! Ecklon! (Herb. Th., Hk. Sd.) 
A foot or more high, many-stemmed, not much branched, branches erect. Leaves 
3-5 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, glabrous and round-backed externally, woolly within, 
either very obtuse or mucronulate. Glomerules j inch diameter, the inv. scales straw 
colour. 
2. S. leucocephala (DC.! 1. c. 259); branches erect, subcanescent ; 
leaves broadly linear, recurvo-patent, spirally twisted, with inflexed 
edges, tomentose within, villoso-ciliate ; heads in a globose cluster ; inv. 
scales white, taper-pointed ; achene woolly tomentose ; pappus of 20-24 
plumes, 
Has. Uienvalei, and between Pickenierskloof and Markuskraal, 1-2,000 f. Drege.’ 
(Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Suffruticose, not much branched, erect and virgate. Leaves 3-4 lines long, # line 
wide, obtuse or mucronulate. Glomerules as in S. gomphrenoides, from which this 
differs in foliage and pappus. 
3. S. squarrosa (Harv.); diffuse, with flexuous, spreading branches; 
leaves linear-terete, slender, involute, recurved-squarrose, acute, some- 
what twisted, glabrate ; heads in a globose cluster ; inv.-scales whitish, 
taper-pointed ; achenes woolly-tomentose ; pappus of 18-20 plumes. 
Has, Lambert’s or Alexander’s Kloof, Dr. Wallich! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
Very near 8. leucocephala, but with a different habit and much narrower, longer, 
and acute leaves. Stems diffusely much-branched, 12-15 inches long, Leaves 5-6 
lines long, ¢ line wide, completely involute. 
4. 8. microphylla (DC.!1.c. 259); erect, much branched, slender ; 
leaves minute, scale-like, most closely appressed, oblong, acute, keeled, 
glabrous; heads in a globose cluster ; inv. scales white, taper-pointed; 
(flowers not seen). 
Has. kloof, in rocky mountainous pl ® i 
kraal, Dahl Verreauz ! at Hk., D. ga.) pias prema 
Stems 6-12 inches high, shrubby, but very slender. Leaves 1 line long, } line 
ao a imbricating the twigs. Glomerules not fully grown, brobably 4 
5. 8. ethiopica (Linn. Sp. 1315); shrubby, robust, diffusely much- 
branched, flexuous ; twigs villous; leaves lance-subulate or subulate, 
pungent-mucronate, concave, sub-involute, woolly within, squarrose- 
recurved, somewhat spiral or falcate ; heads in a globose cluster ; inv. 
