Tripteris. | COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 429 
Has. Hills near Verleptpraam, by the Gariep, Drege! (Herb. Hk.) 
A large plant, perhaps 2-3 ft. high, with robust stem and branches, drying pale. 
Leaves 4-5 in. long, 5-8 1. wide. Achenes scarcely 21.long. Inv. se. not 41. wide, 
very sharp-pointed. The rays seem to have been red or dark-coloured. 
§ 4. Cautescentes. (Sp. 15-22.) 
15. T. spathulata (DC.?1.c.458); rootstock ligneous; stems fruticose 
and leafy at base, herbaceous upwards, ascending-erect, prolonged into 
subsimple or branching peduncles; lower leaves cuneato- or obovato- 
spathulate, obtuse, tapering much at base, glabrous, entire (“or here and 
there subdentate”’ DC.), coriaceous ; upper oblong, half-clasping at base; 
pedicels scabrous; inv. sc. linear, obtuse, dorsally scaberulous, margined; 
achenes smooth, with 3 narrow wings. 
Has. Fields near Zwartkops R., Uit., EZ. & Z./ Zey.! 3065. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stems probably many from the crown; the ligneous portion sometimes very short, 
in which case the lower leaves are subrosulate and almost radical. Fl. stems 1-1} 
ft. high, quite herbaceous. Leaves 24-3 in. long, 1-} in wide, wide with immersed 
nerve, scarcely obvious when dry. The wings of the achenes are remarkably narrow. 
T have not seen an authentic sp. of DC.’s plant. 
16. T. Aghillana (DC.1.¢.457); stem half-shrubby, dwarf, branching, 
closely leafy below; leaves cuneate, tapering much at base, acute, either 
entire or (commonly) coarsely and sharply three-toothed atsummit, some- 
times glabrous, sometimes thinly or copiously sprinkled with thick hairs, 
especially along the margins; fl. branches long, one-headed, pilose gland- 
scabrid upwards, bearing afew leaf-scales; inv. sc. biseriate, ovato-lanceo- 
late, acute, dorsally scabrous, membr. edged; achenes “nearly smooth, 
3 winged.” DC. 
Var. f.integrifolia ; leaves mostly quite entire, cuneato-lanceolate, acute. (Hb.Sd.) 
Has. Cape, L’Agulhas, Drege! Cape, E.G Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
Stems 2-4 inches high, mostly branched. Pubescence very variable in amount, 
sometimes nearly absent. Leaves 2-2} in. long, 3-41. wide: in 8. quite entire. Rays 
10-12, yellow, 2ce. as long as the inv. 
17. T. setifera (DC. 1. c. 457); “rootstock ligneous, branched; stems 
subherbaceous, simple, erect, tufted, leafy below, nude above, at length 
incurved, one-headed ; lower leaves linear-lanceolate, here and there 
few-toothed ; upper linear, quite entire, all acute, at margin and on both 
sides rough with thick bristles ; inv. se, linear-lanceolate, acute, rather 
longer than the disc, setulose, membr.-edged; rays 12-15, twice as long 
as the inv. ; achenes smooth, amply and roundly 3-winged.” DC. 1. c. 
Has. Zwarteberg, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
18, T. flexuosa (Harv.); rootstock ligneous; stems scarcely suffruti- 
cose, erect, flexuous, striate, branched, sparsely hispid; lower and 
medial leaves tapering much at base, oblong or linear, coarsely sinuate- 
toothed or subruncinate, glaucous, one-nerved, sparsely hispid, upper 
sessile, small, linear or lance-linear, entire or toothed ; pedicels ending 
the branches, glandular ; heads cernuous; inv. sc. oblong or linear-ob- 
long, obtuse, dorsally scabrous, with a wide, scarious border; achenes 
‘smooth-sided, amply 3-winged. Osteospermum scariosum, DC.! 1. c. 464. 
