Stobeea. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 493 
margins, cobweb-woolly beneath, the radical long-petioled, deeply pin- 
natisect, the lobes toothed or lobed, tipped with slender spines and 
spine-ciliate, cauline sessile, not clasping, similarly pinnatisect ; heads 
discoid, subracemose, short-stalked ; inv. sc. lanceolate, longer than the 
disc, often spinoso-setose above, spinous-ciliate and with a pair of basal, 
geminate spines; achenes “glabrous, shining.” DC.; pappus of many 
short, oblong, obtuse, narrow scales. 
Has. Kamiesberg, Drege’ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
This agrees with S. pinnatifida in the spinose upper surface of leaves, but differs 
in the copious woolly covering, and the glabrous achenes. The specimens seen by 
me are in very poor condition, insufficient clearly to verify all the characters. 
17. 8. eriobasis (DC. 1. c. 516); “crown of root woody and woolly ; 
stems ascending woolly below, cobwebby above, simple, sparingly leafy, 
radical leaves petioled, pinnatipartite, the petiole cobwebbed, very 
woolly at base, the segments in many pairs, narrow, slightly cobwebby, 
deeply lobed, lobules linear-lanceolate, tipped with a rigid spine, their 
revolute margins spinoso-ciliate ; cauline leaves few, sessile; heads 
discoid, very short-pedicelled, subracemose ; inv. sc. cobweb-woolly, 
equalling the disc, bearing subgeminate spines. DC. l.c. 
Has. Zeederberg, Drege! (Herb. Sd.) - 
For this I chiefly adopt DC.’s description, having seen but a radical leaf and a 
detached involucre, in Hb. Sd.-—“ Achenes glabrous. Papp. sc. oval, in 1-2 rows.” 
De. 
18. 8. cardopatifolia (DC. 1. c. 514); “stem shrubby, erect, branched; 
branches terete, the younger ones, with the undersides of the leaves, 
woolly, the older glabrate; leaves above glabrous, sessile, pinnatipartite, 
the lobes rigid, linear-lanceolate, produced into a spine, nearly entire, 
in about 4~5 pair, sometimes solitary or geminate ; heads discoid, 
ending the branches, subracemose; outer inv. sc. spreading, leafy, 
with solitary spines, inner erect; achenes glabrous; pappus sc. oval, 
obtuse, subdenticulate.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Near Graaf Reynet, Drege. 
19. S. onobromoides (DC. 1. c. 516); minutely glandular-puberulous 
on all young parts ; stem herbaceous, erect, terete, branched, thinly 
pilose or glabrate ; leaves on both sides more or less gland-pubescent, 
becoming glabrate, concolourous ; the radical sessile, very long, sinuato- 
pinnatifid, with short, rounded, spinous-toothed lobes, and wide, spinous- 
toothed interspaces; lower cauline similar, but shorter; upper cordate- 
clasping at base, ovate or oblong, acuminate, bordered with rigid spines, 
entire or sinuato-pinnatifid; heads discoid ; inv. se. ovato-lanceolate, 
veiny, gland-dotted, spinous-edged, longer than the disc. 
Has. Boschesman’s Doorn R., Drege! Cape, Wallich! Winterhoek, Tulbagh, 
Dr. Pappe! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
The young plant is probably viscidulous when recent, being covered with glandular 
hairs, the bases of which are obvious on older leaves and iny. scales as small, raised 
points. The heads in Dr. Wallich’s specimens are smaller and more numerous ; in 
them the achenes are glabrous, and the pappus of many, small, narrowscales. All 
the sp. of Drege’s seen by me have the heads worm-eaten. Dr. Pappe’s plant has 
sub-pinnatifid cauline leaves; heads as in Drege’s. 
