474 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [Gazania. 
Stems 1-1} in. long, densely leafy. Leaves 4-6 in. long, about 1 line wide, pale, 
mucronate, quite glabrous. Pedunc. 10-12 in. long, 141. diam., hollow. Lobes of 
invol. uncial, much longer than the tube. 
5. G. longiscapa (DC. 1. c. 513); collum divided ; subradical leaves 
petioled, either quite glabrous or sparsely hispidulous above, white- 
woolly except the nerve beneath, some lanceolate-acuminate [or “elliptic 
oblong,” DC.| undivided, others pinnatisect, with linear-lanceolate acute 
lobes, all with the margins reflexed, cartilagineo-ciliate ; pedunce. gla- 
brous, longer than the leaves; inv. glabrous, truncate at base, obovoid, 
the lobes linear-subulate, bi-triseriate, longer than the tube, much 
acuminate, the outer ciliate. 
Var. 8. ovalis; Ivs. long-petioled, elliptical or oblong, obtuse at both ends, 2-24 
in. long, 1-14 in. wide. (Herb. Hk.) 
Has. Betw. Vanstaadensberg and Bethelsdorp, Drege. Port Elizabeth, Dr. 
Pappe! Albany, 7. W. near Grahamstown, P. MacOwan, 150. Natal, M. J. McKen 
in litt, Var. B. Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Except in foliage, which is very variable, and in the glabrous peduncle, this scarcely 
differs from G, subulata, I do not however find the petiole rigidly ciliate as in that 
species. Mr. McKen’s specimen has very narrow leaves, almost like those of @. 
subulata ; he tells me that the Kaffir name is ‘ Bensli,’ and that the small fringe 
which constitutes the dress of the young girls is made from the under surface of the 
leaves, scraped off. 
6. G. jurineefolia (DC.! 1. c. 511); very dwarf; rootstock ligneous; 
subradical leaves petioled, pinnatipartite, the lobes linear, spinoso-mu- 
cronate, entire or 1-2-lobuled on the lower margin, glabrous and either 
smooth or scabrid above, white except the nerve beneath, with revolute 
margins; petiole rigidly ciliate; pedunc. glabrous, short; inv. glabrous, 
oval, rounded or truncate at base, its lobes 3-seriate, short, ovato-semi- 
lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, the outer ciliolate or fringed at margin. 
Has. Zeekoe R., Drege! Queenstown flats, in dry, stony places, Mrs. PF. W. 
Barber! 638. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Rootstock simple or divided, slender, Leaves “ lying flat upon the ground” 
(M. £. B.), 1-2 in. long, fully half the length occupied by petiole ; lobes in 2-5 
pairs, close or subdistant, in the stronger specimens again lobuled. Pedune. mostly 
shorter than the leaves. ‘‘ Rays white; disc yellow” (M. £. B.) 
7. G. mucronata (DC. 1. c. 513); “crown woody, multifid; radical 
leaves petioled, glabrous above, cano-tomentose beneath, some entire, 
the majority pinnatisect, the lobes few, lanceolate, tipped with a long 
bristle ; petiole here and there ciliate ; pedunc. glabrous, twice as long 
as the leaves; inv. ovate, subtruncate at base, glabrous, the lobes 
3-ranked, acuminate, shorter than the tube.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Camiesberg, Drege. (Unknown to us). 
Said to be allied to G. jurineefolia. DC. l. c. also refers to “ G. rigens” Eckl. ; 
but a specimen (Hb. Sond.) so named by Ecklon, belongs to G. pinnata, Less- 
** Rays 10 1. long, brown spotted at base.” 
8. G. varians (DC.! 1. c. 513); crown woody, multifid; subradical 
leaves petioled, flexuous, at first thinly cobwebbed, afterwards glabrous, 
but scaberulous above, beneath save on the nerve white-woolly, some 
undivided, oblongo- or lineari-lanceolate, the majority pinnatisect, the 
