394 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Seneczo. 
nerved scales rather shorter than the disc; disc-fl. 25-30 ; rays 7-9, 
small, not much exserted ; achenes minutely puberulous. 
Has. Kendo, in stony and rocky places, Drege! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Root possibly annual? Stem slender, subpaniculate. Leayes 1-1} inch long, 
the longer lobes 2-4 lines long, the shorter scarcely a line, } line wide. Pedicels 
2-3 inches long. Our specimens are very imperfect. 
128. S. pinnulatus (Thunb. Cap. 679); stem suffruticose at base, 
erect, striate, simple or branched, pilose or glabrous; leaves sessile, often 
ear-lobed at base, approximate, distantly pinnati-partite, the lobes on 
each side 3-5, linear-elongate, acute, with reflexed or revolute margin, 
quite entire or here and there minutely toothed, mostly glabrous; fl. 
branches subnude upwards and loosely paniculate-corymbose, pedicels 
slender, sparingly scaly; inv. calycled, of 12-15 glabrous, black-tipped 
seales; dise-fl. 40-50, rays 8-10; achenes angular, pubescent. DC. l.¢. 
396. Also S. scabriusculus, DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Stellenbosch and Caledon, FZ. Z./ Paarlberg, Draken- 
steinberg, Dutoitskloof, and about Table Mt., Drege! Steendaal, Tulbagh, Dr. 
Pappe! (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
2-3 ft. high, with a subsimple, closely leafy lower stem, panicled and laxly leafy 
or nude above. Leaves 1-2-3 inches long, the rachis and 1-14 inch long lobes from 
4-1 line wide. Pubescence scanty, white, sometimes absent. Pedicels 1-3 inches 
long, spreading. Inv. 4 lines long. Rays bright yellow, reflexed. I cannot dis- 
tinguish S. scabriusculus, DC., which I have seen in Hb. Sd, 
129. S. tanacetoides (Sond. !); stem suffruticose, diffuse or ascending 5 
branches curved, woolly-canescent below, scabrous above, leafy; leaves 
sessile or petioled, on both sides woolly-tomentose, canous, closely 
pinnatisect, the lobes on each side 8-12, shortly linear, obtuse, simple 
or 2—3-fid ; infl. loosely panicled, subcorymbose, the long, nearly nude 
pedicels very scabrous; inv. scarcely calycled, of 12-13 very scabrous, 
dark-tipped scales; disc-fl. 40-50, rays 12-13, 4-lined; achenes 5- 
angled, glabrous. 
Has. ruit and Dornkop, Zey. ! Wi ‘i 
5 eb e aa. Hk) p, Zey./ 934, and Burke! Witteberg, T. Cooper, 
Stems numerous, woody at base, at first decumbent, then ascending-erect, 1-2 ft- 
long ; the lower part nude and glabrate ; the medial leafy and white-woolled ; the 
upper green, scabrous, not woolly and sparsely leafy or nude. Leaves about uncial, 
sessile and petioled on the same specimen, the lobes 2~3 lines long, very close. 
Pedicels 2-3 inches long. Inv. scales 4 lineslong. Rays pale yellow. 
180. 8. achillezfolius (DC.! L. c. 396); quite glabrous or cobwebby; 
stem suffruticose, erect, virgate, branching; branches terete, leafy; leaves 
sessile, somewhat fleshy, closely pinnatisect, the lobes on each side 8- 
10, shortly linear, with recurved edges, subacute, the lower quite entire, 
the upper often bifid or 3—s-toothed ; pedicels subcorymbose, elongate, 
scaly, or branches subpedunculoid and one-headed ; inv. nude or nearly 
so, of 12-13 broad, flat, glabrous, membrane-edged scales; disc-fl. 50 OF 
more, rays 10-12; achenes 5-angled, glabrous. 
Var. 8. glaucescens; more slender, with less corymbose infl., the branches thinly 
cobwebbed. 8. glaucescens, DO.! 1. ¢. (Herb. Sond.) 
‘Has. Sneeuweberg, and Ondeberg, and in the Winterveld, 3-4000 f. Drege’ Damp 
