234 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Stoebe. 
Has. Cape, Bergius. Tradouw, Mundt.! Paarlberg, Drege! Seekuvalley, Ecklon. 
Cape Flats, W.H.H., Burchell, 707. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
1-1} ft. high, straggling, either robust and woody or slender, ramulous below, 
with long, erect fl.-branches. Leaves 2-6 lines long, commonly glabrous, but some- 
times loosely woolly on the outside. Infl, varying from globose to oblong. I find an 
obvious annulus to the pappus, and the habit is more that ofa true ‘Stoebe’ than of 
a ‘ Seriphium.’ 
17. S. alopecuroides (Less.! Syn. 349); shrubby, robust, erect, with 
virgate branches ; leaves densely crowded or fasciculate, linear-involute, 
slender, mucronate, appressedly canescent, spirally twisted andsquarrose; 
tufts of heads in a long, cylindrical spike, mixed with leaves ; achenes 
glabrous, rib-furrowed, the ribs toothed or tubercled ; pappus of many 
plumes. DC./ 1. c. 260. Seriphium alopecuroides, Lam, dict, 1. 271. 
Stoebe cinerea, fol. 3, Thunb.! in Herb. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg!, Thom! Bowie! Zwartekops R., Dr. Pappe/ (Herb. Th. 
Hk., D., Cap.) 
A robust, small shrub, 1-2 ft. high, branched in the lower part; the branches 
6-18 inches long, erect, simple, very densely leafy. Leaves 4~5 lines long, very 
generally with axillary leaf-tufts, Spikes of glomerules 2~3 inches long, } inch 
diameter. Iny. scales horn-colour, acuminate. Young achenes somewhat cobwebbed, 
old glabrous, deeply furrowed, with toothed ribs ; a small annulus outside the pappus- 
Corolla white. 
18. §. cinerea (Thunb.! Cap. 727); shrubby, much branched and 
ramulous; leaves polymorphous (varying from minutely-oval or grain- 
shaped and obtuse to linear, elongate, mucronate, in the latter case 
squarrose and spirally twisted, glabrate or woolly); heads in roundish 
tufts, collected in along, lax or dense, sub-interrupted spike; inner 
iny. scales chesnut colour, much acuminate; achenes 4—5 angled and 
furrowed, transversely lamellated above; pappusof many plumes. Less./ 
Syn. 350. 
_ Var. a, plumosa (Less.!); leaves woolly canescent, mostly granular or shortly 
linear, very obtuse, but varying on the same branchto linear and mucronate. Stoebe 
plumosa, Thunb.! Seriphium plumosum, Linn.! DC.! l.c. 262. Ser. vermiculatum, 
DC. (fide sp. Ectk. !, Drege!) 
Var. B. virgata (Less.!); leaves glabrate, frequently linear and mucronate, but 
varying on the same branch to obtuse or granular; spike lax. Stoebe virgata, Th.! 
Seriph. plumosum, 8B. DC.! lc. 
Var. y. cinerea (Less!); leaves linear, mucronate, squarrose, spirally twisted, 
the axils often nude ; spike denser, more cylindrical. Stoebe cinerea, Th.! Seriphium 
cinereum, Linn.) DC.! l.c. 262. 
Has. In und and by road-sides, Se Orange 
State ; and st Weal (Herb. Th., D., ae, 81) <2 a ania ai 
Most variable in foliage, but I fully agree with Lessing on the propriety of uniting 
the above varieties under one specific name. Leaves varying from 4 line to 3-4 
lines long ; and any thing but uniform on the same specimen. Spikes 3-5 inches 
long. If Drege’s specimens are to be depended on, “8. vermiculata,” DC. does not 
differ from our var. a. 
Doubtful species. 
8.? vermiculata (DC. 1. c. 263) ; “stems erect, branching, glabrous, 
twigs woolly; leaves sessile, short, spreading, concave and tomentose 
above, glabrate beneath, often with leaf-tufts ; heads glomerate, the 
glomerules spicate.” Seriphium vermiculatum, DC. 1. ¢. 
