Cineraria. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 313 
slender and branching plant, with smaller fl. heads, and larger and more leafy ears 
to the petiole. f 
17. C. platyearpa (DC. 1. c. 305); annual, many-stemmed, diffuse, 
glabrous, pale ; lower and medial leaves eared at base, petioled, lyrate, 
the lateral lobes 1-2 pair, oblong, dentate, the terminal large, roundish 
or 3-lobed, toothed ; upper leaves sessile, eared at base, pinnatisect ; 
fl. branches laxly panicled, the pedicels long, scarcely scaly; inv. 
10-13-scaled, with few bracts at base ; rays 6-10, twice as long as the 
disc ; achenes broadly obovate, hispidulous on the dise, with a very 
wide, fringed margin, 
Has, Cape, Drege. Albany and Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. D., Hk.) 
6-12 inches high or more, the stems straw-colour when dry. Leaves of very thin 
pare veiny. Heads 3 lines long, and about as wide; rays oblong, spreading, 
yellow. 
18. C. lyrata (DC.? 1. c. 308); annual; stem branching, erect, gla- 
brous, angular; leaves eared at base, lyrato-pinnati-partite, the lateral 
lobes in 2-3 pairs, obovate-oblong, toothed, the terminal larger, cuneate- 
obovate, 3—5-lobed, the lobes toothed ; corymb compound, loose ; inv. 
ealycled, its scales 8-10, glabrous, oblong, acute ; rays few; achenes 
flattened, quite glabrous, with a broad, perfectly entire, not ciliate — 
marginal wing. 
Has. Caledon River, Burke § Zeyher! Nieuweveldt, Drege? (fide DC.) (Herb. 
D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, simple or branched. Leaves 14-3 inches long, the lateral 
lobes 3-8 lines long, the terminal larger. Heads small. I describe from Burke and 
=7y Poemmene, not having seen Drege’s plant, which, if different, must be a nearly 
allied form. 
19. C. microglossa (DC. 1. c. 305); “herbaceous, glabrous, erect; 
branched from the suffruticose base; leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 
tapering to both ends, coarsely toothed or sub-pinnatisect, the upper 
linear, sessile, subentire ; branches bifid; pedicels elongate, nude; inv. 
14-15-leaved; rays 10-12, scarcely longer than the involucre; achenes 
hairy, ciliate.” DC. 7. c. 
Has. Near the Gariep, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
“ Six inches high. Leaves 1-14 inch long. Ray-achenes compressed.” DC. 
20. C. Dregeana (DC. 1. c. 305); “glabrous; stem erect, herbaceous, 
terete, branched ; lower leaves... .. ; upper with broad, roundish, 
clasping, sinuate toothed auricles at base of petiole ; heads pedicellate, 
corymbose, discoid ; inv. scales dilated into a minute, subscarious ap- 
pendix; achenes subangular, on both sides whitish with short, close 
hairs.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. At the Gariep, Drege. (Unknown to me.) aie 
Said to resemble C. geifolia, but differing in fruit and the discoid heads. 
91. C. exilis (DC. 1. c. 305); “herbaceous, glabrous, erect; lower 
leaves ovate, toothed, tapering at base into a petiole, the rest oblong- 
linear, narrowed at base, somewhat toothed at apex; pedunc. few, elon- 
gate, scarcely scaly, one-headed ; inv. nearly nude at base, equalling 
