Berkheya. | COMPOSIT ( Harv.) 501 
(Imperfectly known Species, ) 
§. acarnoides (DC. 1. c. 519) ; “stem herbaceous, erect, glabrous, 
furrowed ; leaves subglabrous above, white-woolly beneath, sinuato- 
pinnatifid, with rounded lobes, each carrying 3—5 spines and ciliato- 
spinellose in the interspaces, the radical tapering at base, subpetiolate, 
the cauline decurrent in lobed, ciliate and spiny stem-wings ; pedicels 
subnude, 1-headed ; invol. sc. equalling the disc, glabrescent, margined 
with solitary spines; achenes glabrous, turbinate; pappus sc. oval, very 
minute, denticled.” DC. 7. c. 
Has. Witberg, 6000-7000 ft., Drege. 
This grows with S. cirsijfolia, to which it seems closely allied. In Hb. Sd. are 
two leaves from Drege: they tell but little of the plant. 
8. erysithales (DC. 1. c. 519); stem herbaceous, erect, branched, 
terete, glabrate, cobwebby above; leaves sparsely setoso-scabrid above, 
cano-tomentose beneath, scabrous on the midrib, the lowest pinnatifid, 
cobwebbed beneath, tapering to the base, the lobes ample, ovate, bear- 
ing 5-7 slender spines, and spinelloso-ciliolate in the interspaces, the 
cauline decurrent in spinous stem-wings, the uppermost half-clasping ; 
heads radiate, on nude, pubescent pedicels ; inv. sc. equalling the disc, 
scarcely cobwebbed beneath, the margin ciliato-spinellose ; achenes 
glabrous; pappus uniseriate. 
Has. Omsamcaba, near the river’s mouth, Drege. 
Of Drege’s plant I have seen merely a leaf-lobe (Hb. Sd.). Judging by descrip- 
tion, it must come very near S. discolor. 
S. carlinefolia (DC. 1. c. 516); “stem herbaceous, erect, straight, 
substriate, puberulous; radical leaves . . . . ; cauline shortly decur- 
rent, erect, oblong, glabrescent on both sides, sinuato-pinnatifid, long- 
spinous-toothed ; heads subracemose, small, discoid ; inv. sc. lanceolate, 
spinous-toothed and ciliate, twice as long as the disc; achenes silky ; 
papp. se. 1-seriate, linear-oblong, subacute.” DC. 7. c. 
Has. Nieuweveld, betw. Zakrivierspoort and Leewenfont, Drege. ‘ 
: CXXXIX. BERKHEYA, Ehrh. 
Heads radiate, rarely discoid; ray-/. ligulate, neuter ; disc-/t. 5-toothed, 
perfect. Recept, honeycombed or deeply pitted. nv. sc. free or more 
or less concrete, in few or many rows, spinous-pointed. i. smooth. 
Achenes mostly silky or pubescent, rarely glabrous. Pappus sc. biseri- 
ate, lanceolate or subulate, acute or much acuminate, serrato-fimbriate 
or ciliato-serrulate. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 504. 
Herbs, often thistle-like, or small shrubs. Leaves rigid, more or less ciliate or 
spinous-toothed. Heads solitary, or corymbose, terminal. Fl. yellow. Named in 
honour of Zefrang von Berkhey. Tt is only known from Stobea by its acute or 
taper-pointed pappus scales. 
Sect. 1. Evopis (Cass.). Herbs, with large, oblong or obovate, subpetiolate 
radical and lower leaves, and a subsimple, 1- or few-headed stem, clothed with small 
stem-clasping, spinoso-ciliate, cauline leaves. Achenes silky. Pappus-sc. lanceolate, 
serrato-fimbriate. (Sp. 1-6.) : 
