Venidium. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 463 
12. V. hirsutum (Harv.); herbaceous, annual, the stem, branches, 
petioles, peduncles and leaves (both surfaces) hairy with long, jointed, 
spreading, soft hairs; stems diffuse, weak, hollow, simple or branched, 
laxly leafy, the branches pedunculoid, one-headed ; radical leaves peti- 
oled, obovate-oblong, more or less lyrate or sinuate, the terminal lobe 
large, toothed or irregularly sinuate, the lateral small, narrow-oblong or 
toothlike ; cauline lvs. ear-clasping, the lowermost petioled, the upper 
sessile, small, oblong or linear ; outer inv. sc. in several rows, oblong, 
obtuse, pilose, with recurved, short points ; achenes smooth, crowned 
with a minute appressed, 8-crenate pappus. V. arctotoides, Hort. Hamb. 
1853, nec Less. Are. calendulacea, Hb. Th.! No. 6% 
Has. Near Capetown, Mundt.! At Greenpoint, W. H. H., Dr. Pappe! (Herb. 
D., Hk., Sd.) 
Nearly stemless when it begins to blossom; the stem afterwards lengthening by 
successive lateral branches, and becoming 10-12 inches long or more. Radical lvs. 
numerous, rosulate, 4-5 inches long, 1-13 in. wide, variably incised. Pubescence 
very copious, especially on the young parts. Rays pale-yellow, concolourous. A 
specimen in Hb. Sond., from Hamburg Bot. Gard., called V. arctotoides, evidently 
belongs to this plant; its leaves, &c. are enlarged by cultivation, but the principal 
characters preserved. 
13. V. macrocephalum (DC. 1. c. 495); “annual; thinly sprinkled 
with jointed hairs; stem erect, branched, terete, striate; cauline leaves 
bluntly eared at base, half-clasping, pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, often 
sinuate ; inv. scales nearly concrete at base into a disc, in many rows, 
hairy, the outer linear ; achenes cross-ridged and tubercled.” DC. l. c. 
Has. Betw. Kaus and the Gariep, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
14. V. aureum (DC.! 1. c. 494); stem short, erect, subsimple, one- 
headed, pilose with long, spreading, jointed hairs, especially in the 
upper part ; radical leaves numerous, lyrato-pinnatifid or pinnati-par- 
tite, the lobes ovate, toothed, the uppermost confluent, all thinly cob- 
webbed, subcanescent beneath, their petioles pilose with long, jointed 
hairs ; cauline leaves sessile, pinnatifid, the uppermost stem-clasping, 
subentire, linear-acuminate ; outer inv. scales linear-subulate, elongate, 
pilose; achenes cross-ridged and tubercled. 
Has. Betw. Zwartdoorn R. and Groen R., Little Namaqualand, Drege / (Hb. Hk.) 
. Root slender, annual. Stem 4-6 inches high, its leaves depauperated upwards. 
Rad. leaves 24-3 inches long, #-1 inch wide, pilose on the nerves beneath. Hairs 
long, soft, spreading, glandular. ‘‘ Rays 9-10 1. long, yellow, without spot.” DC. 
15. V. Wyleyi (Harv.) ; root fibrous, annual; stem subsimple or 
branched from the base, erect, thinly cobwebbed, laxly leafy ; radical 
leaves numerous, petioled, lyrato-pinnatifid, on both sides cobwebby- 
tomentose, the lobes short, blunt, the terminal confluent ; lower cauline 
leaves ear-clasping, petioled, oblong, subentire or sinuate, upper sessile, 
linear-oblong, obtuse ; outer inv. se. hirsute, with linear, blunt points ; 
achenes cross-ridged and tubercled. 
Has. Namaqualand, A. Wyley! (Herb. D.) 
Whole plant hoary, with long, interwoven, white hairs, not gland-hispid. Rad. 
leaves 3-4 in. long, } in. wide, sinuate-pinnatifid, the lobes and sinuses very blunt. 
Stem in our sp. 6-7 in. high, simple. Heads of large size, very showy; disc 1 inch 
