Berkheya.| COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 505 
Known from all the section by its copious pubescence, which is probably viscidu- 
lous when fresh. The lower leaves, in the solitary specimen seen by me, are not 
much longer than the upper ; there is no woolliness on any part of the plant. 
Sect. 2. Basreria. (Sp. 7-10.) 
7. B. eryngiifolia (Less.! Syn. 73) ; shrubby, branches closely leafy 
to the summit, pubescent (not woolly); leaves very rigid, squarrose, 
puberulous on both sides, pinnatisect, upper segments 2-3 pair, lance- 
subulate, pungent, with reflexed margins, lower short toothlike ; inv. 
se. puberulous (not woolly), the outer spine-toothed at base, lanceolate, 
acuminate, the inner much shorter, broadly oblong, concave, mucronate. 
DC. 1. ¢. 505. Rohria palmata, litt. 8, Th.! in Herb. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! (Herb. Th.) 
Very similar to B. palmata in foliage and general aspect, but without woolliness, 
with rather broader leaves, and especially differing in the shape of the inner inv. 
scales. Ecklon’s plant (quoted with doubt by DC.) belongs to B. palmata. 
8. B. palmata (Willd. 1. c. 2271); shrubby, branches closely leafy 
to the summit, woolly or flocculent ; leaves very rigid, squarrose, gla- 
brous and glossy above, cobweb-cottony beneath, pinnatisect, the seg- 
ments close-set, upper much longer, subulate, pungent, keeled above, 
with revolute margins, lower short, spinelike ; outer inv. se. flocculent, 
spine-toothed at base, inner entire, lanceolate-acuminate, longer than 
the rays; achenes sparsely hispid; papp. sc. lanceolate, fimbriate. 
Less. Syn. 74. DC. l.c. 505. Rohria palmata, Th.! Cap, 620. Hetero- 
rachis spinosissima, Sch. B. in Bot. Zeit. xxvii. 775. Walp. Rep. 6, 278. 
Sage Cape, Thunberg! Tigerberg, Mundt./ Bergriver, Ecklon! (Herb. Th., D., 
An SB accitiats rigid, coarse-growing shrub, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 1-2 in. long, 
their upper lobes 7-1 in. long, 1-1} 1. wide, strongly revolute. 
9, B. pinnata (Less.! Syn. 75); shrubby, branches closely leafy to 
the summit, woolly ; leaves very rigid, erecto-patent, woolly beneath, 
becoming glabrous and glossy above, pinnnatisect, the segments remote, 
in several pair, the upper subulate, with revolute margins, pungent, 
lower gradually shorter and narrower, lowest spinelike ; inv. se. in. few 
rows, spreading, lanceolate-acuminate, the outer spine-toothed at base ; 
ovaries villous; papp. sc. fimbriate. DC. 7. c.505. Stobea pinnata, Th.! 
Cap. 622. 
Var. 8. minor; smaller in all parts, with shorter and narrower leaves. (Hb. Hk.) 
Has. Bockland, Thunb Onderbokkeveld and Zeederbergen, Drege/ Var. 8, 
Mountain-peaks in Graaf-Reynet, Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. Th., Sd.) 
Habit of B. palmata, but with more erect and longer leaves, and more numerous 
and distant leaflobes, &c. Leaves 2}-34 in. long, the upper lobes 1-14 in long. 
Var. 8, has much smaller leaves, with narrower lobes, and smaller fi.-heads, but 
— a by a tangible character: its Ivs. are 1-13 in. long, lobes 3-$ in. long, 
4 ide. 
10. B. stobseoides (Harv.); herbaceous, rigid, paniculately branched ; 
stem striate, subglabrous, viscidulous ; leaves alternate, spreading, half- 
clasping, and spine-stipelled at base, pinnatisect, the segments in about 
3 pair, broadly subulate, with revolute margins, pungent and spinoso- 
