Hirpicium. | COMPOSITE (Harv. ) 485 
CXXXVI. HIRPICIUM, Cass. 
Heads radiate; ray-fl. neuter; disc-fl. 5-toothed, perfect. Recept. 
shortly honeyeombed. Jnz. se. concrete at base, in many rows. Filam. 
smooth. <Achenes wingless, completely covered with long soft hairs. 
Pappus uniseriate, coroniform, splitting into bristles. DC. Prodr. 6, 
p. 502. 
Much branched, erect, dwarf-shrubs. Leaves sessile, linear, leathery with revo- 
lute margins, white beneath. Heads terminal, solitary. Name ? 
Leaves scabrous above, bristle-pointed ; inv. sc. subulate (1) echinulatum. 
Leaves hispid above ; inv. sc. bristle-shaped, ciliate ... (2) integrifolinm., 
1. H. echinulatum (Cass.); leaves alternate, often fascicled, linear 
or oblong, tipped with a bristle, and ciliate near the base, with strongly 
revolute margins, scabrous above, albo-tomentose beneath; heads sub- 
sessile; inv. sc. linear-subulate, rigid, erect, pungent, minutely ciliolate. 
Less.! Syn. 54. DC.1.¢. 502. Gidera alienata, Th.! Cap. 725, excl. syn. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Namaqualand and the Karroo, E. § Z.! Modderfontein, 
Rev. H. Whitehead! Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A rigid, twiggy, small shrub, Leaves pale-green. 
2. H. integrifolium (Less.! Syn. 53); leaves approximate, alternate, 
or opposite, lance-linear, acute, with strongly revolute margins, hispid 
above, albo-tomentose beneath ; heads subsessile ; inv. sc. very narrow 
linear, with long, bristle-shaped, ciliate points. DC. l. c. 502. Gorteria 
integrifolia, Th.! Cap. 699. 2 
Has. Cape, Thunb.! Caledons Hoogte, Mundt § Maire. Hexrivierskloof, Drege! 
9079. (Herb. Th., 8d.) 
A much-branched, twiggy, small shrub ; young twigs hispid. Lvs. sub-petiolate, 
the rudimentary petiole half-clasping at base and membrane-edged ; lamina 3-3 in. 
long, scarcely 1 L. wide, narrowed to both ends. Bristle-points of the inv. sc. nearly 
4 in. long. Lessing describes the leaves as ‘‘ decussate and connate ;’ in Thunberg’s 
specimen, though occasionally so, they are much more frequently alternate. 
CXXXVIIL STEPHANOCOMA, Less. 
Heads discoid, all the fl. 5-toothed, perfect. Recept. honey-combed, 
the cells bearing long, rigid bristles. nv. se. pluriseriate, concrete at 
base, margined with spinous cilia. Filaments smooth. Achenes glabrous, 
obeonic. Pappus sc. uniseriate, very short, at first concrete into a cre- 
nate, cup-like crown, afterwards partially separating. DC. Prodr. 6, 497. 
A thistle-like herb, with the habit of a Stobea (sec. Apuleia), from which genus 
this is only distinguishable by its crown-like pappus. This character appears to me 
insufficient, and I retain Stephanocoma merely in deference to Lessing’s and DC.’s 
authority. I am obliged, however, to reject St. Berkheyoides, Less., because, on 
examination of the original specimens in Hb. Th., I find that it has the ordinary 
scaly pappus of a Stobea, and I believe it to be identical with St. scolymoides, DC. 
The generic name is compounded of ¢repavos, a crown, and xoun, hair; alluding to 
the crown-like pappus. 
1, §. carduoides (Less.! Syn. 56); Stobea decurrens, Th.! Cap. 621. 
Stobea crispa, DC.! 1. ¢. 517. Berkheya carduiformis, DC. 1! 1. c. 507. 
Var. B. latifolia ; rad. lvs. 24-3 in. wide above the middle. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
