Berkheya.| COMPOSIT (Harv.) 507 
bordered with slender spines, tomentose beneath; achenes silky; papp. 
sc, lanceolate, acute, toothed. B. fruticosa, Khr. Less.! Syn. 78. DC. 
Ll. c. 506. Rohria incana, Th.! Cap. 617. Gorteria asteroides, Lin. f. 
Jacq. Ic. rar. t. 591. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Mundt! Heerelogement, #. ¢ Z./ Olifants R., and 
Litt. Namaqualand, Drege/ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Rather a straggling suffrutex, with an ashen grey colour, the branches divaricate, 
especially the flowering ones, Heads small ; the dise 4 1. across ; the expanded inv. 
about 1 in, diam., in fruit. 
15. B. cuneata (Willd. 1. c. 2270); branches tomentose ; leaves 
alternate, thickish, on both sides woolly, cuneate-obovate, tapering at 
base, 3-5 spined, toothed at the apex; outer inv. sc. hoary, ovate- 
oblong, acute, spine-bordered, inner longer and narrower; ovaries silky ; 
papp. se. (fide Less.) “much acuminate, unequal, plumose.” Less, / 
Syn. 79. DC. l. c. 506. Rohria cuneata, Th.! Cap. 617. 
Has. Karroo, Thunb! Gamko-karroo, Mundt! Zwellendam, Dr. Thom! E. §. Z! 
(Herb. Th., Sd., Hk.) 
Leaves about 1 in. long, 3-4 1. wide at the apex, tapering much to the base. 
Heads subsessile, small ; the rays shorter than the inv. 
16. B. Dregei (Harv.); shrubby, the branches tomentose; leaves 
alternate, rigid, thinly cobwebbed and veiny, becoming glabrate above, 
woolly beneath, sessile, obovate, repando-sinuate, subundulate, and 
unequally spinous toothed; inv. sc. lanceolate, dorsally woolly bordered, 
with strong spines. Berkh. 2901, a, Hb. Drege! 
Has. Cape, Drege! (Herb. Sd.) 
Of this seemingly distinct species I have seen but a small fragment, the fi. head 
of which is completely worm-eaten. Leaves 2 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. 
17. B. seminivea (Harv. and Sond.); stem herbaceous, subsimple, 
striate, minutely puberulous or glabrous, leafy; leaves alternate, sessile, 
ovate-oblong or elliptical, green and minutely scaberulous above, snow- 
white beneath, spine-stipelled at base and ciliate with rigid spines; 
heads 1~3, ending the nude, pedunculoid apex of the stem or branches ; 
inv. sc. linear-lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate, closely spinoso-ciliate ; 
ach, silky ; papp. se. lance-oblong, subacute, toothed. 
Has. Magalisberz, Burke and Zeyher, Zey.! 794. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A very handsome species. Stems 1-2 ft. high, leafy for upwards of # their length, 
thence pedunculoid, 1-3 headed, pale green, the young ones very minutely puberu- 
lous. Leaves 1-14 in. long, 5-8 lines wide, delicately penninerved and veiny above. 
Heads of large size, radiate. The pappus scales are almost intermediate in charac- 
ter between those of Stobea and Berkheya, but the habit is more of the latter genus. 
18. B, subulata (Harv.) ; stem herbaceous, subsimple, terete, striate, 
glabrous or near the summit gland-puberulous, leafy ; leaves approxi- 
mate, alternate, glabrous, linear-subulate, with revolute margins, re- 
motely spinoso-ciliate and spine-stipelled ; heads ending the laxly leafy 
or nude apex of the stem ; inv. sc. subulate, acuminate, minutely glan- 
dular, spinoso-ciliate ; papp. sc. lanceolate, acuminate, incised, twice as 
long as the silky achene. 
Has. Dry plains, Zululand, Gerr. 6 McK./ 1048. (Herb. D.) 
