Cryptostemma. | COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 467 
Recept. honey-combed, fimbrilliferous. nv. scales imbricate in many 
rows, the outer linear, foliaceous, inner larger, scarious, very obtuse. 
Filaments papillose !_ Achenes ovate, somewhat 4-sided, without wings 
or pappus. DC. Prod. 6, p. 495. 
_A caulescent, perennial, creeping or decumbent herb. Leaves petioled, lyrato- 
pinnatifid, green and mostly smooth above, white-woolly beneath. Pedicels axil- 
lary, t-headed. Fl. yellow. Name from apxros, a bear, and @nxa, a receptacle ? 
1. A. repens (Wendl. Hort. Herrenh, p. 8, t. 6). R. Br. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2, vol. 5, p.14t. Less. Syn. p. 35. DC.1. c. 495. Arctotis repens, 
Jacqy. Schoenbr. t. 306. A. interrupta, Th.! Cap. 708. 
Var. 8, grandiflora; achenes puberulous ; leaves and fl. larger. A. grandiflor 
Schrad.! ‘DO. 1. ¢. 495. 5 ) : ba 
Has. About Capetown and in the W. districts, common. 8, raised from Cape 
seeds in Bot. Gard., Goett., Schrader! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems prostrate, rooting at intervals. Lys. 4-8 inches long, pinnatisect, the lat. 
lobes in -8 pair, acute, toothed, terminal larger. Pedunc. 3-12 in. long, according 
to soil ; varies much in size. B, of which I have seen an authentic specimen in 
Herb. Sond., is merely a garden variety. Without examining the fruit, this may 
readily be confounded with Cryptostemma. 
CXXX. CRYPTOSTEMMA, R. Br. 
Heads radiate ; ray-fl. ligulate, neuter, often cleft or irregularly cut, 
or biligulate ; disc-fl. 5-toothed, perfect. Recept. honeycombed. Jnvol. 
scales in many rows, imbricated, the outer narrow, herbaceous; inner 
membranous, obtuse. Filaments scabrous. Ach. wingless, very thickly 
clothed with long, silkly, soft hairs. Pappus uniseriate, paleaceous, 
scarious, hidden among the hairs of the achene. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 495. 
Stemless or caulescent herbs, more or less tomentose. Leaves very variable in 
size and incision, lyrato-pinnatifid, runcinate, or rarely undivided. Rays yellow ; 
disc dark-coloured. Name from xpumre, to hide, and oreupa, a crown; alluding to 
the hidden pappus. 
Leaves lyrate or runcinate, scabrous above ; lobes toothed (1) calendulaceum. 
Lys. pinnati-partite, glabr. above, lobes linear- 
entire, with revolute margins... ... ... ... -.. «-. (2) Forbesianum. 
1, C. calendulaceum (R. Br. Hort. Kew. 2, Vol. 5, p. 141); stemless 
or caulescent ; leaves scabrous above, hoary beneath, lyrate or runcinate, 
the lateral lobes variously cut or toothed, margins flat. ess. Syn. 39. 
DC. 1. c. 495. Arctotis calendulacea, Willd. Th.! Cap. 709. Jacq. 
Schoenbr. t. 157. 
Var. a, verum; rays entire, or 2-3-toothed. A. calend. R. Br! l.c. Bot. Mag. 
t, 2252. 
. B. hypochondriacum; rays deeply 3-5 cleft; lvs. lyrate-tomentose or cob- 
eiiak pl agp smear one os ea R. Brel . 0. U. €. ae Ae hy pochondriaca, 
A. tristis, A. corruscans, and A, superba, Linn. 
Van. y. runcinatum; rays 3-5 parted ; lvs. runcinate, tomentose beneath. Crypt. 
runcinatum, R. Br.l.e. DC. tl. ¢. 496. 
Has. Roadsides and waste places throughout the Colony, very common. (Hb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) ; 3 
Extremely variable in habit; sometimes stemless, with rosulate radical leaves and 
scape-like pedunc. ; sometimes prostrate or creeping, with exactly the aspect of Arcto- 
theca repens; or erect, branched, 1-2 ft. high, like some Arctotis. Leaves as variable 
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