428 coMPosIT# (Harv.) [Tripteris. 
bescent; branches virgate, corymboso-paniculate at top; lower leaves 
petiolate, with or without small, basal auricles, lance-oblong, inciso-. 
pinnatifid or very deeply cut, glandularly pubescent ; upper sessile, 
half-clasping, toothed or entire; inv. sc. lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, 
with a narrow membr. border, dorsally scabrid; achenes (small) about 
as long as the inv. scales, quite glabrous, with a narrow membranous 
wing. 
Var. 8. glabrescens; much less glandular ; lower leaves unknown; upper broad- 
based, stem-clasping, entire or toothed ; fruit as in a. 
Has. Léwentans, Zey/ 1026. Namaqualand, A. Wyley! 8. Namaqualand, 
Pappe! Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
The specimens seen are all imperfect, and perhaps the description of the foliage 
may need correction, or I may possibly confound two species. The strongest cha- 
racter lies in the achenes, which are scarcely 2 lines long, with wings } line. 
0%) 5 ao ay ae 
-* “12, T. clandestina (Less.! in Linn, 6. p. 97); annual, viscidulous; 
t - ° 
_ stem herbaceous, erect, sparsely pilose, leafy, paniculately branched; 
_ leaves oblong obtuse, sinuato-dentate or repand, subglabrous or sparsely 
Vv“ pilose, the lowest much attenuated at base, subpetiolate, upper sessile 
and more or less stem-clasping at base; pedicels ending the branches, 
cernuous; inv. sc. oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, with narrow, opaque, 
scabrous centre and very wide, white, membr. edges; rays scarcely lon- 
ger than inv.; achenes amply 3-winged, either smooth, or more or less 
echinate. Calendula hybrida, fol. 3, Thunb.! in Hb. 
Var. a. leiocarpa; achenes quite smooth. 7’. herbacea, and T. scariosa, DC. 4. ¢. 
458. Calendula hybrida, Th.! fol. 3. 
Var. 8. echinocarpa; achenes more or less bristled on the sides. 7’. clandestina, 
DC. 1. c., non Less. T. hyoseroides, B. echinocarpa, DC. l. ce. 
Has. A common weed round Capetown, and in the W. districts. Hassaquays- 
kloof, Zey./ 3067, ex. pte. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd. 
Stem 8-18 inches high, more or less branched. Lower leaves 4~5 in. long, #-1 
in. wide; upper 1-13 in. long. Thunberg’s specimen, on which Lessing founded his 
‘*T. clandestina,” is precisely T.herbacea, E. M. I find the rough and smooth achenes 
a very variable character in specimens from the same localities. 
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13, T. hyoseroides (DC. 1. c. 458); “stem herbaceous, erect, minutely 
gland-pubescent, panicled at the summit ; lower leaves elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, obtusely sinuate, tapering into a petiole ; cauline oblong-linear, 
acute, sub-entire, bluntly eared at base, all very minutely downy ; pe- 
dune. nude, elongate ; inv. sc. elliptic, acute, dorsally glandular, widely 
membr. edged ; rays twice or thrice as long as the inv. ; achenes 3-winged, 
smooth.” DC. l.c¢., excl. var. 8. 
Has. Betw. Kaus, Natvoet, and Doornport, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
This seems to differ from 7’. clandestina chiefly in its longer ray-flowers. 
14. T. polycephala(DC.! l.c. 458); perennial?; stem herbaceous, erect, 
glabrous, corymbosely much branched, branches many-headed; twigs, 
pedicels and young leaves minutely glandular, viscidulous; leaves lanceo- 
late, elongate, tapering to each end, entire, glabrous, glaucous, 3-nerved ; 
inv. sc. linear-subulate, acuminate, narrow-edged ; rays 12-15, twice as 
long as the iny. ; achenes quite smooth, 3-winged, wings glossy, rather 
narrow. 
