Stoebe. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 283 
13, S. fusea (Thunb.! Cap. 728); shrubby, much branched and 
ramulous ; leaves linear, involute, mucronate or obtuse, spirally twisted, 
cobwebby-canescent ; axils nude; heads in small terminal tufts, or 
short, oblong spikes; floral leaves shorter than the involucres; inv. 
scales oblong, sub-obtuse, pointless ; achene angular, villous, pappus of 
many plumes. Seriphium fuscum, Linn. Sp. 1317. Less. Syn. 351. DC./ 
U..¢. 262. 
Haz. About Capetown, and in the Western Districts. (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched, flexuous, small bush, 3-12 inches high or more, closely leafy, 
with greyish, cobwebby indument. Leaves variable in length, 1-5 lines long, the 
shorter ones commonly pointless. Iny. scales varying from horn-colour to rufous- 
brown, subobtuse, 24 lines long. I find the achenes, both in Thunberg’s and subse- 
quently collected specimens, villous. Flowers white. 
14, §. incana (Thunb.! Cap. 725); much branched, albo-tomentose, 
the branches slender; leaves rather laxly set, linear-involute, slender, 
mucronate, spirally twisted and squarrose, white-woolly, the very old 
partly nude; heads in oblong or subglobose, decurrent tufts (sub-spicate); 
inv. scales chesnut-colour, lanceolate-cuspidate, much attenuate, squar- 
rose; achenes silvery-canescent ; pappus of many plumes. Less./ Syn. 
348. DC. lc. 260, 8S. ethiopica, Sieb.! 204, non Linn. 
Has. Summit of Table Mt., abundant, July and Aug., Thunberg! Ecklon, Drege! 
W.HLH., de. (Herb. Th. D. Hk. Sd) _ 7 wr 
12-18 inches high, much branched, erect, very woolly. Leaves 3 lines long, the 
longer ones evidently spiral, all strongly recurved. The very much attenuated, 
glossy-chesnut inv. scales strongly contrast with the whiteness of the leaves and 
branches, and distinguish this species from S. spiralis. 
15. S. spiralis (Less.! Syn. 347); branched, tomentose, the branches 
slender; leaves linear-involute, slender, mucronate, spirally twisted and 
squarrose-recurved, loosely woolly, in age denuded; axils mostly nude; 
heads in globose or oblong, subdecurrent glomerules or spikes ; outer 
inv. scales very short, woolly ; inner pale horn-colour or yellowish, 
rigid, straight, lance-acuminate, longer than the flower ; corolla-lobes 
short, erect ; pappus of many plumes, without annulus. DC. /. ¢. 260. 
Var. flavescens; glomerules commonly oblong ; inv. scales tawny or buff-coloured. 
Seriphium flavescens, DC./ l. ce. 263. 
Has. Stellenbosch, Mundt & Maire, Ecklon! B. Cape, Burchell, 7617, 8166. Du- 
toit’s kloof and Draakenstein, Drege! Palmiet R., and elsewhere, Z. d& Z./ (Herb. 
D., Sd., Hk. 
12-18 se high, much or little branched, variably, but generally, copiously 
woolly-canescent. Leaves 3-4 lines long, very squarrose. Inflorescence varying 
from a nearly globose glomerule to an oblong, or cylindrical, or interrupted spike. 
Next S. incana, but with much less taper-pointed and paler inv. scales, and (so far 
as I can see) no annulus to the pappus. 
16. 8. capitata (Berg. Cap. 338); ascending or erect, flexuous, twiggy, 
with virgate flowering branches ; leaves linear-involute, aristato-mucro- 
nate, spirally twisted, erecto-patent, glabrate or woolly; axils nude ; 
heads in globose or oblong, simple or sub-decurrent glomerules or spikes ; 
inv. scales glabrous, rufous, the inner acuminate or cuspidate; achenes 
silvery ; pappus of many plumes, withan annulus. Seriphium capitatum, 
Less. ! Syn. 352. DC! 1. c.263. Also, 8. perotrichoides, Less. t.c. DEC. 
t.¢, 263. 
