Berkheya. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) | 509 
Sect. 5. Trichocoma. (Sp. 23-24). 
23. B. setifera (DC. 1. c. 507); leaves confined to the base of the 
stem, obovate or obovate-oblong, tapering much at base into a long, 
half-clasping petiole, subentire or distantly spinous-toothed, the margin 
and upper surface thickly covered with pungent bristles, otherwise gla- 
brous, the under thinly pilose ; peduncular-stem nearly nude, elongate, 
terete, cobwebbed or glabrous, bearing about 3 pedicelled fl. heads ; 
inv. sc. linear-lanceolate, closely ciliate with slender spinules ; ach. 
pubescent ; papp. se. very long, straw-colour, subulate-acuminate, 
tapering to hair-like points. 
Has. Omtata, Drege. Doornkop, Burke/ (Herb. Hk.) 
Of Drege’s plant I have only seen a leaf, in Hb. Sd. ; I describe from Burke's 
(Hb. Hk.) which agrees well with DC.’s character. Leaves (including their petiole) 
12-15 in. long, 3-4 in. wide. Peduncular-stem 2-2} ft. high. 
24. B. umbellata (DC. 1. c. 507); lower and subradical leaves lyrato- 
pinnatifid, tapering at base into a lobulate and spine-toothed petiole, 
the leaf-lobes broad, longer or shorter, the margin and upper surface 
covered with short, pungent bristles, the under scaberulous ; cauline 
leaves small, linear, spine bordered, decurrent in long, sinuous, spinous 
stem-wings which clothe the stem to its summit; heads subumbellate, 
10-12, on woolly pedicels ; heads discoid ; inv. sc. linear-lanceolate, 
ciliolate and spinous at base ; ach. pubescent ; papp. sc. subulate-acu- 
minate, tapering to hair-like points. 
Has. Omtata, and betw. Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege. Natal, Gueinzius/ 
318, 596. Bullies’ Grave, Brit. Kaffraria, W. S. M. D’ Urban, 58. (Herb. Sond., D.) 
With much of the habit of B. setifera, but readily known by its winged-stem and 
more or less deeply pinnatifid lower leaves, &c. 
Sect. 6. Pssupo-stopza. (Sp. 25) 
25. B.? annectens (Harv.) ; stem herbaceous, branching, terete, cob- 
webbed; leaves half-clasping at base, glabrous above, canescent be- 
neath, sinuoso-pinnatifid, spinoso-acuminate, the lobes semi-lanceo- 
late, spine-tipped, the interspaces sparingly spinellate ; heads small, 
few-fl., discoid; inv. sc. in few series, concrete, ovate-acuminate, 
dorsally canous, few-spined at base, widely spreading, the innermost 
longest; recept. deeply pitted, the margins of the cells fimbriate; 
achenes ribbed, thinly pubescent; papp. sc. very short, lanceolate, acute, 
serrate. 
Has. Bitterfontein, Zey.! 984. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
In habit, and every other character save pappus, this is like a Stobea: but as 
the papp. scales, though small, are assuredly acute, I place it in Berkheya, It 
must be confessed however that it almost unites the two genera, being even more 
a Stobwa than B. stobeoides. 
(Imperfectly known species.) 
_  B.? hirpicioides (Sond. !); root-stock creeping?; stems erect, sub- 
simple, leafy, setose ; leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, tapering at 
base into a setoso-ciliate petiole, closely echinate with sharp points 
above, tomentose beneath, with reflexed, distantly spine-toothed mar- 
gins, setose on the midrib beneath; heads terminal, subsessile ; inv. 
