504 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Berkheya. 
leaves oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, 3-nerved, tapering much at base, 
subglabrous above, woolly beneath, repand or sinuous, undulate, more 
or less bordered with strong spines; upper stem-clasping, oblong or 
cordate, many-nerved and veiny, glabrous or canous beneath, closely 
pectinate with spinous cilia; inv. sc. glabrous (or the outer cobwebbed), 
erect, imbricate, the outer shorter and broader, pectinato-ciliate, Inner 
lance-linear, flat, much acuminate, ciliate or subentire. ess. Syn. 70, 
DC. lc. 505. Rohria carthamoides, Th.! Cap. 618. € Rohria armata, 
Vahl. 
Var. 8. uniflora; stem one-headed, outer inv. sc. ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate. 
B. uniflora, Willd. l. c. Less.! Syn. 71. DO. 1. c. Rohria monanthos, Th.! Cap. 618. 
(Hb. Th.) 
saint oe Round Capetown and in the W. districts, common. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., 
Known from the preceding by the very long, narrow, flat and often ciliate inner 
inv. scales. Var. 8. appears to me to be a very trifling variety. 
4, B. carlinoides (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 2275); stem herbaceous, simple 
or racemose at summit, angular, pubescent ; lower leaves obovate-ob- 
long or oblong, tapering much at base, glabrous above, woolly beneath, 
repando-sinuous, spinous toothed ; upper cordate-clasping, acuminate, 
recurved, hispidulous on both sides, strongly spinous-toothed, undulate ; 
inv. sc. pubescent, the outer squarrose, undulate (leaflike), sinuous, 
_ spinous-toothed, cordate or oblong, inner lance-subulate, much acumi- 
nate, bordered with long spines. Less. Syn. 72. DC. 1. c. 505. Rohria 
carlinoides, Th.! Cap. 619. 
Has. Devil’s Mt., Capetown, Thunb./ Lion’s Mt., Mundt, fide Less. (Herb. Th.) 
I have only seen the single specimen in Hb. Thunb. ; one from Ecklon (Hb. Sd.) 
marked ‘ carlinoides, is certainly only a var. of B. carthamoides. Lessing does not 
notice the broad, leafy outer inv. sc., which are very conspicuous in Thunberg’s 
specimen, and quite unlike the outer sc. of any other of this section. 
5. B, Ecklonis (Harv.); stem herbaceous, racemose at summit, pu- 
bescent ; lower leaves obovate-oblong, tapering much at base, glabrous 
above, tomentose (becoming glabrate) beneath, sinuous and spinous- 
toothed ; upper cordate-clasping, hispidulous on both sides, strongly 
spinous-toothed ; inv. sc. pubescent, spreading, the outer straight, 
ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, inner lance-subulate, much attenuate, all 
bordered with long, slender spines. 
Has. Swellendam? Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
This has the lower leaves of B. carlinoides ; and the involucre of B. pungens ; it 
is almost exactly intermediate therefore between these ‘species.’ It may be the 
plant quoted by Lessing, as from Ecklon, under B. carlinoides. 
6. B. pungens (Willd. 1.c.); stem, leaves on both sides, and inv. se. 
softly pubescent ; lower leaves oblong, narrowed to the base, pungent, 
somewhat sinuous and spinous-toothed, upper cordate-ovate, clasping, 
many-nerved, veiny, unequally spinous-toothed ; inv. sc. spreading, the 
outer lanceolate, the inner lance-linear, acuminate, all ciliate with long 
spines. Less./ Syn. 73. DC.l.c. Rohria pungens, Th.! Cap. 618. 
Hav. Cape, Thunberg! (Herb TH) | 
