Acanthopsis. | ACANTHACE® (Clarke), 35 
The specific name “‘ dipsaceum” was printed twice by E. Meyer, and refers to 
the resemblauce of the spikes to the heads of teazel. In founding the genus 
Acanthopsis, Harvey created no species, but he mis-cited ‘ Acanthodium 
dixpermum”; succeeding authors have not gone further back than this, 
4. A. hoffmannseggiana (C. B. Clarke); leaves subpinnatifid, 
doubly spinous-toothed ; bracts viscid with gland-tipped hairs besides 
short white hairs; otherwise as A. Disperma, Nees. A. cardutfolia, 
Schinz in Verh, Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi, 200 partly. Acan- 
thodium hofimannseggianum, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 277 ; Sender tn 
Linnea, xxiii. 93. Blepharis carduifolia, T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vii. 35 partly. 
Katanart ReGton: Griqnaland West, Hay Div.; Kloof Village in the 
Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 1654! Prieska Div.; Zand Valley, Burchell, 
1632/2! Griqua ‘Town, Mrs. Urpen in Bolus Herb., 6476 ! 
5. A. horrida (Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 278); branches 4—10 in. 
long, stout, divided, grey puberulous from minute white deflexed 
hairs; internodes 3-1 in. long; leaves 2-2! by +-i in. coarsely 
sinuate-toothed, strongly spinous, most minutely pubescent ; spikes 
terminal, subses-ile, up to 21 by 1 in., dense, softly hairy; bract 
(without the spines) } by } in.; primary terminal spines 5, 4-1 in, 
long, pinnatifid, with many long white hairs ; secondary spines much 
shorter; calyx, corolla, capsule and seeds nearly as of A. Disperma. 
T. Anders. tn Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 36; Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb, xxxi. 201; Lindau in Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
3B, 319. Dilivaria horrida, Nees in Linnea, xv. 363; Drége, in 
Linnea, xx. 200. <Acanthodium plumosum, FE. Meyer in Drége, Zwei 
Pflanzengeoyr. Documente, 67, 161. A. plumulosum, E. Meyer ex 
Nees in DU. Prod. xi. 278. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; Kamies Berg, 3000-4000 ft., Drage. 
6. A. trispina (C. B. Clarke); bract (without the teeth) 3 by 
& in.; terminal primary spines 3, } in. long, scarcely toothed, 
sparingly white hairy ; otherwise as A. horrida. 
Sourn AFrRIca: without precise locality, Mund ! 
7. A. spathularis (Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 
201) ; shrubby, erect; stem silky-hoary ; leaves lanceolate, sinuate- 
toothed, spinous, velvety; spikes lateral and terminal, subsessile, 
globose; bracts broad wedge-shaped, truncate, with 5 terminal 
spines and strong intermediate spines, central spine of the upper 
bracts foliaceous spathulate- lanceolate mucronate. Lindau in Engl. 
$ Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 319. Acanthus spathularis, E, Meyer 
tn Drége, Zwei Pfhlanzengevgr. Documente, 91, 161. Acanthodium 
spathulare, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 277. Blepharis spathularis, 
L. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 35. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; Silver Fontein, 2000-3000 ft. 
Drége. 
No example seen; the above Reveript ion copied from Nees, 
Da 
