496 COMPOSIT# (Harv.) [ Stobea. 
stem herbaceous, erect, simple, leafy throughout, one-headed ; leaves 
narrow-linear, erect, laxly set, densely spinoso-setose above, and ciliate 
with similar, slender spines, nude and strong midribbed beneath, de- 
current in long, narrow, very spinous, sinuous, stem-wings, which 
nearly conceal the whole stem to the summit; heads shortly radiate; 
invol. sc. longer than the rays, subulate, bordered with slender, simple 
or binate spines; ach. silky; papp. scales obovate, toothed, 2-seriate. 
Has. Emyati, Natal, Gerr. ¢ MX. 1046. (Herb. D.) 
This has much of the habit of a Cullumia. The free portion of the leaf is scarcely 
- as long as the decurrent wing, 1-14 inches long, 2 1. wide; spines all slender, very 
unequal, small alternating with longer. In essential character it comes near 4. 
echinacea. 
28. S. insignis (Harv.); stems ascending-erect, closely leafy through- 
out, simple, 1-headed, glandular-pubescent ; leaves sessile, cobwebbed, 
becoming sparsely hispidulous or glabrous above, albo-tomentose be- 
neath, linear, acute, spine-pointed, with sub-revolute margins, quite 
entire, ciliate with long, slender bristles, and stipelled at base with 
similar; invol. sc. linear-subulate, shorter than the ample rays, setoso- 
ciliate and white beneath, like the leaves; achenes turbinate, silky ; 
pappus twice as long as the achene, of many biseriate, cuneato-spathu- 
late, obtuse, sharply toothed scales. 
Has. Attercliffe, Natal, J. Sanderson! 234, 264; W. T. Gerrard, in litt. (Herb. D.) 
A very remarkable plant, nearly allied to S. Zeyheri, Sond., but with broader leaves, 
white beneath ; glandular, closely leafy stems, and much larger fl. heads. 
29. S, Zeyheri (Sond. and Harv., non Less.) ; stems ascending-erect, 
closely leafy below, laxly-leafy and subpedunculoid upwards, 1-headed, 
glabrous, cobwebbed above ; leaves sessile, cobwebbed, becoming gla- 
brous, linear-subulate, spine-pointed, with strongly revolute margins, 
quite entire, laxly ciliate and stipelled at base with long, slender bris- 
tles; inv. sc. reflexed during anthesis, subulate, rather longer than the 
rays, setoso-ciliate, cobwebby beneath; achenes turbinate, silky; papp. 
twice as long as the achene, of many biseriate, cuneate, sharply toothed 
scales. Hirpicium ? Zeyheri, Sond. in Hb. 
Has, Wonderfontyn, Zey.! 975. Schoonstrém, Burke’ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
St. Zeyheri, Less., is a trifling variety of S. atractyloides. 
80. S. sonchifolia (Harv.); stem herbaceous, terete, glabrous or mi- 
nutely pulverulent ; leaves thinly membranous, sparsely and minutely 
hispidulous above, very thinly tomentose-canescent beneath, the upper 
clasping (but not decurrent), oblong or lanceolate, more or less sinuate, 
lower (and radical ?) on spine-bordered petioles, runcinato-pinnatifid, the 
lobes very ample, in about 3 pair, oblong, repando-sinuate, the angles 
or teeth tipped with small, slender spines, the interspaces minutely 
spinellose, ciliolate, ribs and veins glabrous ; heads radiate, peduncu- 
late; invol. scales lanceolate, glabrous, bordered with slender, simple 
spines, and ciliate; ovaries pubescent; papp. sc. short, obtuse. 
Has. Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. Hk.) 
_ This has the delicately membranous texture of leaf of S. membranifolia, but the 
lower leaves are very differently shaped, and the upper not decurrent, &c. I have 
