Stobeea. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 497 
seen but one specimen, consisting of 2 detached lower leaves and a flowering branch. 
It was collected some 20 years ago. 
31. 8. grandifolia (DC. l.c. 517); stem herbaceous, tall, branching, 
terete, glandularly pubescent, as are also the leaves on both sides ; 
radical leaves very long (12-18 inches), petioled, deeply pinnatifid or 
pinnatipartite, the lobes ovate, acute, unequally and coarsely spinous- 
toothed, the lower smaller, nerves 4—5 in each lobe, subparallel, run- 
ning from the midrib through the lobe ; cauline lvs. clasping at base, 
slightly adnate ; heads on long pedicels, radiate; inv. sc. linear lanceo- 
late, attenuate, about equal to the rays, margined with 6-7 solitary (or 
sometimes geminate) spines, glandular; achenes pubescent ; papp. sc. 
2-seriate, oblong, acute, dentate. 
Has, Witberg, Drege! (Herb. Hk.) 
32. §. viscosa (DC. 1. c. 517); “stem herbaceous, erect, branched, 
terete, glandularly puberulous and viscidulous; leaves viscid, gland- 
pubescent above, glabrous beneath, half-clasping, the lower sessile, pin- 
natifid, the lobes palmately spine-toothed, the cauline shortly decurrent, 
dilated at base, less incised; heads subpaniculate; inv. sc. spreading, 
rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the rays, bearing toward the 
base solitary or geminate spines ; achenes pubescent; pappus sc. very 
short, separate, 1-serlate.” DC. l.c. 
Has. Blaauwberg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
I have only seen a frustule; and therefore chiefly copy DC.’s description. 
33. 8.? buphthalmoides (DC. 1. c. 517); “stem herbaceous, erect, 
somewhat angled, sparsely setose, branches glabrous or cobwebbed ; 
leaves above closely coyered with jointed, soft, short hairs, white-woolly 
beneath, oblong, pinnatifid, tapering at base, the lobes rounded, ciliato- 
spinose, cauline sessile; inv. sc. spreading, bearing geminate marginal 
spines, longer than the disc ; rays about equalling the disc, the inner- 
most narrower and shorter ; achenes inversely prismatic, villous at the 
apex ; papp. sc. 2-seriate, downy.” DC. 1. c. : 
Van. 8, sublanata ; stems and upper sides of leaves cobweb-woolly; heads rather 
larger; inv. sc. rather longer than the leaves. DO. J. c. 
Has. Witberg, Drege. B, Blesboksvlagte ; Los Tafelberg ; and Stormberg, Drege. 
Of this T have otily scen 3 leaves and # fL-lead: int Hib, Sd; 1 theredore measly 
transcribe DC.’s sp. char. 
34. S. oppositifolia (DC.! 1. c. 517); stem herbaceous, erect, glabrous 
(or thinly cobwebbed); rad. leaves . . . . ; cauline leaves opposite, 
connate or perfoliate, glabrous, roundish-ovate or oblong, sinuate-toothed, 
the teeth bearing very long spines, the margins not ciliate; heads pedi- 
cellate, radiate ; invol. sc. in few rows, broad, oblong, nearly equalling 
the rays, spinous-pointed and bordered with long, solitary spines; ach. 
silky ; papp. sce. oblong, toothed, 2-seriate. Rohria spinosa, Hb. Thb. ! 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Silverfontein, Drege! Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead / 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Readily known by its opposite and mostly connate leaves. Lvs, 13-2 in. long, 
1-2 in. wide. Spines very long, yellow, slender. Lower and radical lvs. unknown. 
There are excellent specimens of this in Hb. Th.; why omitted by Lessing I know not. 
Vou, It. 32 
