500 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [ Stobeea. 
or 3-lobuled, the lobules tipped with stronger spines ; heads discoid, 
ending the branches, subcorymbose ; inv. sc. spreading or deflexed, 
concave and woolly beneath, cobwebby becoming glabrate above, gene- 
rally bearing a pair of geminate spines near the base (sometimes also 
having 1-2 pair of solitary spines as well); young achenes covered with 
short, white, swollen hairs becoming in age glabrate ; pappus sc. round- 
ish, obtuse, sub-denticled. DC./ 1. c. p. 516, also 8. adenocarpa, DC.! 
lic. 515. Apuleia heterophylla, Less.! Syn. p. 65. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Kochman’skloof, Mundt. Langekloof, Uitenhage and 
Albany, Drege! Waste places and cult. ground, Uitenhage, EZ. § Z./ Grasrugg, Zey.! 
986. Zontag’s R., Zey/ 987. (Herb. Th, D., Hk., Sd.) 
Varying from erect, 2-3 ft. high, to decumbent 10-15 in. long ; all the young 
parts hoary. I cannot distinguish 9. adenocarpa, DC. ; its achenes are not covered 
with real glands, but with precisely similar swollen hairs to those on S. heterophylla, 
Th. ; these hairs are sometimes copious, sometimes scanty, but that is all: there is 
no difference in foliage or fl. heads. 
42. §. atractyloides (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 621); stem herbaceous, erect, 
glabrous, or the young parts very thinly cobwebbed ; cauline leaves 
soon becoming glabrous and glossy above, more or less tomentose or 
sometimes glabrous beneath, ear-clasping and adnate at base, rigid, 
inciso-pinnatifid, the lobes semilanceolate, with wide interspaces, taper- 
ing into a strong spine, the margin of lobes and interspaces ciliate with 
slender spinules; heads corymbose or panicled, discoid; inv. scales 
widely spreading, ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate, concave beneath, 
bearing strong geminate spines at base, and mostly ciliate with 
slender spinules; achenes copiously silky with white hairs ; pappus 
sc. short, subbiseriate, irregularly subconcrete. DC. 1. ¢. 515? also 
S. rubricaulis, DC.! l.c. Apuleia atractyloides, Less.! Syn. 64. Apuleia 
Zeyheri, Less. Syn. l.c. S. Zeyheri, DC. 1. c. 
Var. 8. carlinoides, Less.!; smaller and more glabrous in all parts, with more 
slender stems. S. carlinoides, Th./ Cap. 620. (Herb. Th.) 
Has. Roggeveld, Th.! About Capetown and in Zwellandam, Eckl./ Cape Flats, 
Wallich! Caledon, Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem often red or reddish, becoming glabrous. Leaves either green or while 
beneath, varying much in this respect ; in Th. original specimen, though ‘concolor- 
ous’ in a dry state, a close inspection shows toment. beneath, which was probably 
once white. “DC. says the achenes are glabrous ; they are certainly not so in Thun- 
berg’s plant. Ihave not seen Drege’s Namaqualand plant, quoted by DC. S. Zeyher, 
Less.! of which I have seen the original, but now half-rotten specimen (in Hb. Sd.) 
marked by Lessing himself, does not seem to me to have any stable characters ; 
those he enumerates as separating it from S. atractyloides are certainly variable. 
Of Drege’s 8. Zeyheri, I can say little, having seen but a rad. If. and a fl. twig; it 
is much more tomentose than S. atractyloides usually is. 
43. 8. biloba (DC. 1. c. 516); “stem herbaceous, erect, terete, sim- 
ple, cobwebbed ; leaves sparingly setulose above, cano-tomentose be- 
neath, the radical obovate-oblong, tapering into a long petiole; cauline 
oblong, half-clasping, all pinnatifid, the lobes mostly 2-lobed, lobules 
tapering into a spine, the margins here and there spinellose; heads 1— 
3, pedicelled, discoid; inv. se. linear-lanceolate, having solitary, rarely 
geminate, marginal spines, the outer reflexed, inner erect, rather longer 
than the disc; ach. subvillose; papp. very short, uniseriate.” DC. l.¢. 
Has. Near Liefde, on hills, 1000 ft., Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
