494 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Stobeea. 
20. 8. multijuga (DC.!1.c. 521); rhizome ligneous, horizontal; stem 
erect, simple, terete, cobweb-cottony ; leaves glabrous above (the younger 
cobwebbed), softly and copiously white-woolly beneath, the lower elon- 
gate, sessile, cauline adnate or shortly decurrent, all deeply pinnatisect, 
the lobes in very many pair, close together, the lowermost short and 
simple or toothlike, the upper 3-5-fid, spinous pointed, base of the leaf 
(or winged petiole) broadly linear, with an entire margin ; heads solitary ; 
inv. sc. about as long as the rays, cobweb-cottony beneath, linear-lanceo- 
late, bordered with simple spines; ach. glabrous; papp. sc. obtuse, 
uniseriate. 
Has. Witberg, 6-7000-f., Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A very remarkable species, with foliage unlike that of any other. Lower leaves 
8-12 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, with a very wide midrib, quite entire and smooth-edged 
for 1-2 in. above the base, thence upwards more and more deeply incised and 
pinnatisect. 
21. S. M‘Kenii (Harv.); suffruticose, much branched, all young parts 
cobwebby-canescent; branches closely leafy to the summit; leaves 
decurrent in slender, spinoso-ciliate stem-wings, lanceolate, acute, all 
but the uppermost, sharply one-toothed or tooth-lobed at each side be- 
low the middle, apex of leaf and lobes spine-bearing, the margin ciliato- 
spinellose, upper surface cobwebbed, becoming glabrous and netted- 
veined, lower tomentose ; inv. sc. lanceolate, tomentose, longer than the 
disc, with a few, small, simple, marginal spines; heads discoid; achenes 
glabrous, obconic, striate ; papp. sc. very short. 
. Highlands of Natal, Gerr. & M'‘K., 1047. (Herb. D.) © 
aes “3-4 ft. ea have only seen Senne twigs, = cannot say what 
the lower leayes may be like. It seems a very distinct species. Leaves on the 
branchlets 1-14 in. long; 3-5 lL. wide. 
Sect. 2, Eu-Stopma, (Sp. 22-43.) 
22. 8. purpurea (DC.!1. c. 518); stem herbaceous, erect, simple, cob- 
webby, leafy to the summit; subradical and lower leaves sessile, elon- 
gate, tapering at base, more or less deeply sinuato-pinnatifid, above 
sprinkled with jointed, soft hairs, beneath cobweb-cottony; cauline 
gradually smaller upwards, and more and more decurrent, the stem- 
wings of the lower lvs. narrow, of the upper broad, and very spiny; 
heads radiate, racemose; inv. sc. ovato-lanceolate, spine-pointed and 
margined with slender, simple spines; achenes silky; papp. sc. oblong- 
toothed, biseriate. 
Var. 8B. albiflora; flowers white (Hb. Sd.) 
Pe sat Witberg, Drege! Winterberg, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 530, (Herb. D., Hk. 
Pais plant, Mrs. Barber tells me, ‘‘ grows in the vallies of the Winterberg im 
patches, many thousands growing close together as if they had been planted in beds ; 
flowers purple, showy.” Lower leaves 6-8 in. long; uppermost very small, but 
decurrent as broad stem wings. 
23. §. rhapontica (DC.! 1. c. 519); stem herbaceous, erect, terete, 
cobwebby, racemose at the summit; radical leaves obovate or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, tapering much at base, shortly petioled, subentire °F 
repand, unequally spinelloso-ciliate, glabrous or setulose above, white- 
