Dicoma.] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 517 
sub-pungent, with inflexed edges, quite glabrous; inv. sc. ovate, much 
acuminate, imbricate. DC. l. c. 37. 
Has. Cape, Mundt.! (Herb. Sond.) 
I have seen an authentic fragment in Hb. Sd. ; in it the leaves are quite glabrous 
on both sides, not “tomentose above.” Achenes shortly turbinate, silky, fulvous. 
Papp. bristles subulate-attenuate, pluriseriate, serrulate, white. 
5. D, diacanthoides (Less.1.c.279); much branched, shrubby, twigs 
canescent; leaves one-nerved, obovate or obovato-spathulate, tapering 
at base, subpetioled, the younger cobweb-tomentose above, then nearly 
glabrous, all tomentose beneath ; outer inv. sc. widely spreading, elon- 
gate, subulate-acuminate, pungent, inner ovate, acuminate, glossy, sub- 
concave, connivent. DC.l.c. 37. Helichrysum spinosum, Th.! Cap. 664. 
Stobea Bergeri, Spr./ Syst. 3, 394 
Has. Cape, Th ! Karroo, £.¢2Z.! L kloof, Drege! Ui a 
Stace "secwcas Mrs FW. Beater! (Herb. Th., D. Hk., ae ai 
A coarse-growing, robust, dwarf, much-branched shrub, under 1 foot high. Lys. 
and young parts hoary, Outer invol. sc. straw-colour ; inner purplish, tipped with 
white. Leaves varying much in breadth. ate 
6. D. Burmanni (Less. 1. c.); much branched, shrubby, twigs thinly 
canescent or glabrous ; leaves one-nerved, lanceolate or obovate-spathu- 
late, tapering at base, often 2-3-toothed, soon glabrous above, tomen- 
_ tose or glabrous beneath; outer inv. sc. widely spreading, long, subu- 
late-acuminate, pungent, gradually passing below into pungent bracts, 
continued down the petiole ; inner inv. scales ovate, much acuminate, 
glossy, connivent. DC. 1. c. 37. Burm. Afr. t. 67, f. 3. 
Var. 8, glabrata; leaves (adult) glabrous on both sides. Cryptostephane Kraussii, 
_ Sch.! B. Bot. Zeit. xxvii., 782. Walp. Rep. 6, p. 318. 
Has. Cape, Burman, Swellendam, £.¢7Z.! Langekloof, Echl. Hassaquas- 
kloof, Zey./ 3075. Var. 8, Swellendam, Dr. Thom! Krauss! Groote Howhoek, 
Zey.! 3076. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very similar to D. diacanthoides, and perhaps a mere variety, with narrower lvys. 
and more numerous empty bracts on the pedicels. Var. 8. merely differs by its 
more glabrous foliage : I possess an authentic specimen from Dr. Krauss himself. 
Sect. 4. Pstrocoma. (Sp. 7.) 
7. D. anomala (Sond.! in Linn. 23, p. 71); rootstock woody; stems 
suffruticose, diffuse or ascending-erect, simple or branched, flexuous, 
angular, glabrate or canescent ; leaves narrowed at base, linear or lan- 
ceolate, acute or subobtuse, serrulate, with subrevolute margins, one- 
nerved, soon glabrous above, albo-tomentose beneath; invol. sc. multi- 
seriate, linear-subulate, acuminate, subpungent, midribbed, the inner 
gradually longer; papp. bristles multiseriate, very slender, ciliato-bar- 
bellate. 
eer a, Sonderi; leaves narrow-linear, 1-2 lines wide; invol. sc. erect, straight. 
Sond. / l. ¢. 
Var. B, cirsioides; leaves lanceolate, 4-5 1. wide ; inv. sc. squarrose. D. cirsi- 
oides, Harv. MS. 
Var.~y, microcephala ; leaves as in a.; heads much smaller, 4 in. long, 4-5 lines 
wide. D. Gerrardi, Harv. MS. 
Has. Dornkop, Laayspruit and Magalisberg, Burke § Zey.! Zey.! 1028. North 
