282 coMpPosiT# (Harv.) | Stoebe. 
thickened margin, the space between midrib and margin pitted; axils 
nude ; heads in terminal, simple or subsimple glomerules ; inv. scales 
chesnut colour, glossy, much acuminate ; achene glabrous, somewhat fur- 
rowed ; pappus of many long plumes. Seriphiwm nervigerum, DC.1.c.263. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, No. 7570. Zeekuvalley, Mundt.! Clanwilliam, Ecklon. 
Zwarteberg and Olifant R., Drege/ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
- A small, twiggy flexuous bush, 3-8 inches high ; the young twigs villous. Leaves 
very rigid, not at all spiral, woolly within and at the axils, pale green and glossy 
without. Inv. scales nearly 4 lines long, very taper-pointed. Flowers purple. There 
is a trace of an annulus to the achene, and consequently, as DC. observes, this 
species is doubtfully referable either to Stoebe (Less.) or to Seriphium, an excellent 
reason for combining these genera! 
10. S. rugulosa (Harv.); dwarf, much-branched and ramulous ; leaves 
imbricated, erect, rigid, linear, mucronulate, glabrate, keeled, and pitted- 
inv. rugulose beneath ; axils nude; heads interminal, oblong, shortspikes; 
scales horn-coloured, obtuse; achenes villous; pappus of many plumes. 
Has. Brede River, Mundt.! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
This agrees with S. nervigera in habit and the pitted backs to the leaves ; but the 
leaves though keeled are not prominently midribbed, the inv. scales are blunt, of 
paler colour and shorter, about 2 lines long. The achenes too are somewhat villous, 
and the heads more spicate. Flowers purple. The inflor. is nearly that of S. fusca. 
11. S. phleoides (Sch. Bip.); suffruticose, erect, with virgate bran- 
ches, villous; leaves lanceolate-linear, acuminate, sub-aristate, straight 
and erecto-patent, or the lower squarrose and twisted, those on the 
twigs more linear and involute; axils not leaf-tufted; glomerules in an 
oblong, cylindrical spike, the fioral-leaves often longer than the flow- 
ers; inv. scales scarious, acuminate, horn-colour; ovaries glabrous, 
furrowed; pappus of many plumes. Seriphiwm phleoides, DC. 1. c. 262. 
Seriph. candicans, Mundt.! MSS. 
Var. B., phyllostachya; spike more lax and interrupted, floral leaves longer 
than the glomerules. Seriph. phyllostachyum, DC, l. c. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 5052, 5131. Mountains near Swellendan, Mundt.! Ecklon! 
Knysna Pappe./ Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A foot or more high, not much branched. Leaves 3-7 lines long, the larger 
lanceolate expanded, and midribbed, the sm:ller more or less involute, and somewhat 
twisted, the younger cobwebbed or thinly tomentose, becoming glabrate. Spikes 1-2 
inches long, } inch diameter. Flowers white. In uniting the two forms indicated 
by DC. I adopt his name “ph/eoides” as most expressive, although I do not find 
the inv. scales to be “‘velvetty” as described ; but then DC.’s specimen was either 
immature, or, as he suspects, a monstrosity. In our plant the spike is very dense, 
and the floral leaves sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than the glomerules. 
_12. S, copholepis (Sch. Bip. Cass. Unifl. p. 23) ; shrubby, branching- 
virgate ; leaves lance-oblong, imbricating, erect, convex-backed, setaceo- 
mucronate, on both sides woolly, not involute ; axils nude ; heads in 
dense, oblong or ovate, terminal spikes ; floral leaves short ; inv. scales 
oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, horn-colour ; achene angular, silky ; paP- 
pus of many plumes, 
Has. Palmiet River, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
8-12 inches high, erect, bushy. Branches imbricated with leaves throughout. 
Leaves 3-4 lines long, 1~1} line wide, hoary, with black bristle-points. Inflorescence 
about an inch long, Inv. scales nearly as in S. fusea, but mucronulate. 
