522 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Gerbera. 
9. G. piloselloides (Cass. Dict. 18, p. 461); leaves elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, tapering into a short petiole, entire or repando- 
denticulate, sparsely setose or nude above, beneath and on the margins 
softly hairy ; scape shaggy and somewhat thickened at the apex; inv. 
se. erect in fruit; ripe achenes long-beaked, papulose, striate. DC. l. 
c. 16, Arnica piloselloides, Linn. Amoen. 6, 103. Gerbera Schimpert, 
Sch. Bip., in Hb. Schimp! No. 185. G. ovalifolaa, DC.! l. c. 17. 
: oe B. discolor ; (DC.) ; leaves albo-tomentose beneath. Arnica nudiflora, Th.! 
wm Mero. 
Has. Round Capetown and in the W. districts, Burchell, W.H.H. and Draken- 
stein, W.H.H. Caledon, FE. § Z. Uitenhage, Eckl. Witberg, Katberg, and Omtata 
and Basche R., Dreye! Br. Kaffraria, 7. Cooper, 172. Kreilis Country, H. Bowker! 
243. Bigarsberg, Natal, Gerr. § McK. 1042. Var. 8. Zuureberg, Drege, Thun- 
berg! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Leaves 3-5 in. long, 13-21 wide. Pedune. 4-12 in. long. Rays turning dark- 
brown in drying. I cannot distinguish G. ovalifolia, DC.!, which is widely spread 
through temperate India ; our Cape plant has certainly papulose achenes. 
_ Sect. 3. Lastopus. (Sp. 10-15.) 
10. G. ambigua (Sch. Bip.) ; leaves short-petioled, subcoriaceous, 
elliptical or oblong, obtuse, scarcely tapering at base, entire or inversely- 
subsinuate, pilose, becoming glabrous above, albo-tomentose beneath, 
midribbed and penninerved ; achenes hispidulous; pappus fulvous ; 
iny. sc. longer than the disc, villous. Zasiopus ambiguus, Cass. Dict. 
25,p-299. DC.! 1. ¢. 18. Lasiopus coriaceus, DC.! l. ¢. 19. 
Has. Zuureberg, Drege! Uitenhage, FZ. & Z./ Bushman’s R., Albany, Zeyher! 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Petiole 1-2 in. long; lamina 23-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, all but the very old 
leayes tomentose beneath. There are three specimens in Hb. Sd. from Ecklon 
marked ‘‘Las. coriaceus,” DC.: one of them is precisely identical with an authen- 
tically marked sp. from Drege (Hb. D.) of “*L. ambiguus ;” the other two are undis- 
tinguishable from ‘‘Las, viridifolius.” I am therefore compelled to reject ‘L. 
coriaceous” altogether. 
11. G, discolor (Sond.! in Hb.); leaves oblongo-lanceolate or lanceo- 
late, subacute, tapering much at base into a longish petiole, entire or 
subdenticulate, glabrous and green above, tomentose beneath ; inv. se. 
villous ; ovaries hispidulous ; pappus fulvous. . 
Has. Magalis ! A ; j i ‘i . CHb. 
Hi, Sa, “si berg, Burke § Zeyher Zey.! 1033. Aapjes R., Zey./ 1032. ( 
Petioles 2-5 in. long ; lamina 4-6 in. long, 3-1 inch wide. Scapes tomentose, 
8-16 in. long. Heads like those of G. ambigua, 
_ 12. G. plantaginea (Harv.); leaves obovate-oblong, subacute, taper- 
ing much at base into a variable petiole, entire, glabrous above, at first 
cobwebbed, then thinly pubescent beneath, on both sides green ; inv. 
scales villous; marg. ovaries hispid, of disc thinly pubescent ; pappus 
fulvous, 
Has. Magalisbetg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Crown of root not copiously silky, Petioles 1-3 in. long ; lamina 2-5 in. long, 
41-1} in, wide. Near G. viridifolia, but differing in aspect, with much longer lvs. 
‘It differs from @. discolor in having both sides of leaf green. 
