458 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Venidiwn. 
A. reptans (Jacq. 1. c. t. 382); “stem herbaceous, ascending, branched ; 
branches hispid leafy ; leaves ear-clasping at base, hispid, canescent be- 
neath, oblong-obovate, sinuate-incised ; outer inv. sc. acuminate, spread- 
ing.” DC. lc. 487. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. 
A. cineraria (Jacq. Sch. t. 174); “stem half shrubby below, branch- 
ing; branches albo-tomentose; leaves long, petioled, not eared at base, 
pinnatifid, cano-tomentose, the lobes elongate, patent, narrow, obtuse, 
toothed; outer inv. sc. squarrose.” DC. 1. c. p. 488. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. 
I have (Herb. D.) a garden specimen which agrees well with Jacquin’s figure, 
except that the petioles are auricled at base. 
A. elatior (Jacq. 1. c. t. 172); “stem shrubby, branched ; branches 
tomentose-hairy, leafy, scarcely nude at the summit; leaves pinnatifid, 
hispid above, tomentose beneath, the lobes linear-lanceolate, angle- 
toothed; petioles scarcely dilated at base; outer iny. sc. squarrose.” 
DC. tl. ¢. 488. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. 
A. leucanthemoides (Jacq. 1. c. t. 164); “root fibrous; stem herba- 
ceous, hispidulous, branches sparingly leafy; leaves pubescent-hairy, 
the lower petioled, obovate, repand-toothed, upper lanceolate, sessile, 
quite entire ; outer inv. sc. leafy, obtuse, hairy, squarrose.” DC./.c. 499. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. 
A. amplexicaulis (Less. Syn. 25); “stem shrubby, branched ; flower- 
ing-branches elongate, flocculent-tomentose; leaves deeply pinnatifid, 
ear-clasping at base, glabrate above, smooth, cano-tomentose beneath ; 
outer inv. sc. longish, squarrose.” DC. l. c. 488. A. elatior, Herb. 
Willd. No. 16711, fide Less. 
Has. Cape. 
A specimen in Hb. Sond. under this name seems to me not to differ from a var- 
of A. aspera, common on Table Mt. The leaves are neither smooth above nor 
tomentose beneath. 
CXXVI. VENIDIUM, Less. 
Heads radiate ; ray-fl. female, ligulate ; disc-fl. 5-toothed, perfect. 
Recept. honeycombed, mostly nude. Jnv. sc. imbricate in several rows, 
the outer narrower, herbaceous, inner scarious. il. smooth. Achenes 
glabrous (rarely subpubescent), dorsally 3-5 winged or ridged, the 
lateral ridges inflexed, often toothed, the medial straight, narrower. 
No hairs from the base of the achene. Pappus either none, or of 4 
very minute, unilateral scales. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 491. 
Herbs with the aspect of Arctotis, from which genus this differs in the glabrous 
achenes, destitute of pappus. The section Pseud-arctotis is however, nearly inter- 
mediate with Venidium. Name? 
