312 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Cimeraria. 
Stems much branched, slender, rigid, either erect or spreading, or trailing. Petioles 
1-1} inch long, slender ; Jamina 6-9 lines wide, 3-5 lines long. Peduncles 2-3 inches 
long, filiform. Inv. scales linear-oblong, with a triangular top.—Allied to C. lobata, 
but with much smaller and less reniform leaves, less cut. 
13. C, geraniifolia (DC.? 1. c. 308) ; quite glabrous ; stem herba- 
ceous, erect, slender, laxly branched ; leaves on long petioles minutely 
auricled at base or nude, the lower leaves mostly reniform, 5—7-lobed 
and toothed, the upper lyrato-pinnatisect, with 1-2 pair of obovate, 
toothed, petiolulate, lateral lobes and a deeply 3—5-lobed terminal one ; 
flowering branches elongate, nude, laxly few-headed, the heads on very 
long nude pedicels ; inv. subcalyculate, glabrous, of about 12 scales ; 
rays 10-12; achenes quite glabrous, margined, or winged, not ciliate. 
Has. King William’s Town, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Cap., D.) 
Stem straggling, 2 ft. high, weak. Leaves distant on 2-3 inch long petioles ; 
most of the upper ones with lateral leaf-lobes ; varying considerably in depth of 
lobing and degree of dentition. Pedicels 2-5 inches long. Rays numerous, bright 
yellow. Not having seen authentic specimens of DC.’s plant I refrain from quoting 
his habitats. Specimens from Ecklon and Drege (in Hb. Sond.), purporting to 
belong to “ C. geraniifolia B. oligocephala” DC. have hispidulous and ciliate achenes, 
and belong to C. Saxifraga; a specimen in Hb. Cap. from Ecklon has no fi. heads, 
and may be anything! Dr. Pappe’s plant, here described, is at least an entity. 
14, C. deltoidea (Sond. ! in Linn. 23. p. 68) ; herbaceous, erect, quite 
glabrous ; leaves petiolate, the petiole with reniform, toothed, ample 
auricles at base, the limb deltoid, truncate at base, many nerved, acute, 
repand-toothed ; heads loosely panicled or corymbose ; pedicels with 
few scales ; inv. subcalyculate, glabrous ; rays 4-6; achenes quite gla- 
brous, compressed, narrow-margined, 
Has. Natal, Gueinzius! 343. (Herb. Sond.) 
Very near C, atriplicifolia, from which it chiefly differs in the less deeply cut and 
jagged leaves, and the ampler and reniform auricles to the petioles. 
15, C. atriplicifolia (DC.! 1. c. 308); herbaceous, erect, quite gla- 
brous ; leaves petiolate, the petiole bearing at base 1-2 narrow, small 
lobes, the limb truncate at base, hastate, sharply and coarsely incised 
or lobed, acuminate ; heads loosely panicled or corymbose, pedicels 
scaly ; inv, calyculate, glabrous ; rays 4~-6 ; achenes flattened, smooth, 
wingless, quite glabrous, not ciliate. 
age = Natal, Drege! Dr. W. B. Grant. Umzinto, M. J. McKen/ (Herb. D., 
_ Stems weak, 1-2 ft. high, green. Petioles occasionally bearing one or two lobes 
in the middle ; terminal lobe 1-14 inch long, }-1} inch wide at base, sharply and 
unequally cut, 
16. C. decipiens (Harv.) ; herbaceous, erect, quite glabrous; leaves 
petiolate, the petiole eared at base, limb truncate and toothed at base, 
broadly hastate, sharply and coarsely incised and lobed, acuminate ; 
heads loosely panicled or corymbose, few-fl., pedicels filiform, nearly 
nude ; inv. of 8 scales, subcalyculate, glabrous ; rays about 4; achenes 
flattened, hispidulous, with a narrow, ciliate border. 
Has. Umvoti District, Natal, W. 7. Gerrard, 1040. (Herb. D.) 
This is so like C. atriplicifolia in foliage, that it can scarcely be known without 
an examination of the fruit: then there can be no mistake. It is a rather more 
