Arctotis.] CoMPOSIT (Harv.) 451 
Has. Kamiesberg and Kamdebosberg, Drege! Modderfontein, Rev. H. White- 
head! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Thickly clothed with felted, whitish hairs. Lys. 3-6 inches long, sometimes with 
a large lobulate terminal lobe and 2-3 pair of small laterals; sometimes with 5-6 
pair of uncial lateral lobes, the terminal not conspicuously larger. The length of 
the pedune. also varies considerably. Heads large and showy; rays yellow above, 
coppery beneath. 
5. A, diffusa (Th.! Cap. 707); stemless, rhizome creeping? emitting 
at each node many thick, simple, glabrous rootlets; radical leaves from 
a broad, many nerved base, petiolate, on both sides white-woolly, oblong- 
obovate, either crenate, incised or imperfectly lyrate ; scape longer than 
the leaves, woolly; outer inv. sc. with linear, woolly appendices. Less. 
. Syn. 18. DC. l. c. 486. 
Has. Cape, Zhunberg/ (Herb. Th.) 
Possibly stoloniferous, forming at the end of each stolon a depressed, imperfect 
tuber nearly an inch across, which emits from its lower surface 6-12 simple roots, 
4-6 inches long, 1 line diameter. Leaves 2-3 inches long, }-{ in. wide, thickly 
felted with white woolliness. The flowers have perished in Thunberg’s specimens ; 
no other collector seems to have met with this species. 
6, A. leiocarpa (Harv.); nearly stemless, subradical leaves petioled, 
on both sides thinly pubescent, subtomentose, lyrato-pinnatifid, tapering 
at base, with oblong blunt lobes; fl. branches bearing 1-2 leaves, not 
much longer than the radical leaves; outer inv. sc. hairy, with short 
linear points, inner oblong, membranous, glabrous; achenes quite gla- 
brous on the surface, with a tuft of basal, silky hairs. #.¢Z. No. 437, 
DC., 88. (in Hb. Sd.) 
Has. Beaufort, E. ¢ Z. Gamka R., Burke § Zeyher! Springbokkeel, Zey/ Hope- 
town Distr., 4. Wyley! (Herb. Sond., Hk., D.) 
The ripe achenes are black, and glossy ; the silky basal tuft rather scanty ; and 
the pappus scales often shorter than the body of the achene. Foliage as in A. lepto- 
rhiza. Rays white above; coppery purple beneath. 
7. A. leptorhiza (DC.! 1 c. 486); root slender, fibrous, annual ; 
radical leaves petioled, green and hispid above, white-woolly beneath, 
oblong-lanceolate, variably incised (either repand, coarsely and sharply 
toothed or more or less deeply lyrato-pinnatifid, or pinnatipartite); scapes 
long or short, tomentose and hispid; outer inv. scales linear, tomen- 
tose, spreading and reflexed; inner glabrous, scarious ; achenes si/ky, 
with a basal tuft of silky hairs, the lateral wings subentire. 
Var. a. breviscapa, DC.; scape shorter than the pinnatifid leaves. A. breviscapa, 
Th.! Cap. p. 709. Less. Syn. 18. 
Var. f. longiscapa, DC. ; scape longer than the toothed or pinnatifid leaves, 
Has. About Capetown and inthe Western Districts, Th.! Z. § Z.! W. H. H. 
Driefontein, Zey.! Simon’s Bay, C. Wright, 292. Paardeneiland, Z. § Z.’ (Herb. 
Th. 'D.; Bk ea 
Not unlike A. acaulis in miniature; but the root is annual and the heads much 
smaller and fewer-flowered. The foliage varies as in that species, Rays orange- 
yellow, coppery outside. 
8. A. Dregei (Turez.! Bull. Mosew. XXIV. (1851), p. 93); root 
slender, fibrous, annual? radical leaves petioled, green and hispid above, 
white-woolly beneath, oblongo-lanceolate, variably incised, some entire, 
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