BerkJieija.] lxxiii. composure (oliver and hiern). 429 



1. B. (Stob^a) Zeyherl, Soiid. et Harv. ex Harv. et Sond. Fl. 

 Gap. iii. p. 496 ; non Less. Branches ascending or erect, thinly cot- 

 tony ; the barren branches leafy throughout ; flowering ones leafy 

 below, nearly naked above, 1-lJ ft. high. Leaves narrow-linear, 

 tapering towards the tip, sessile, bristle-pointed, setosely ciliate, white- 

 tomentose beneath, ^-2 in. long, margins much revolute. Capitula 

 solitary, terminal, subglobose, (including the rays) about 1^ in. dia- 

 meter. Involucral scales reflexed during flowering, linear-subulate, 

 rather exceeding the ligules, setose-ciliate, cottony beneath. Achenes 

 silky ; pappus twice as long as the achene of many biseriate fimbriate 

 paleee. 



Mozamb. Distr. Near Kankanje, Kirk ! 

 Occurs also south of the tropic. 



2. B. g-orterioides, 0. ^ H. A scabrous-asperous difi'use 

 perennial. Branches pale, hispid. Leaves spathulate or narrowly 

 elliptical, very scabrous and hispid above, white-tomentose beneath, 

 attenuate at the base, shortly or scarcely petiolate, f-l| in. long, apex 

 apiculate with a rigid bristle, margins revolute. Capitula solitary 

 subsessile, subglobose, J in. long (exclusive of the rays). Involucral 

 bracts linear-subulate bristly hispid setaceous-ciliate, terminating in a 

 long serrulate bristle ; outer ones filiform. Ligule of the ray-florets 

 about 15, linear, f-| in. long. Achenes densely pilose-villous. Pappus 

 paleaceous, hyaline, fimbriate. 



Soutb Central 1, " South Tropical Africa," Baines ! 



3. B. Spekeana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. xxix. p. 100, 

 t. 66. A robust erect branched prickly herb, some feet high. Branches 

 striate puberulous above, not angled, leafy to the top. Leaves linear- 

 oblong, sessile, semiamplexicaul, remotely toothed, setosely apiculate 

 at tip, spinous-hispid above, white-tomentose beneath, 1-6 in. long ; 

 teeth setosely apiculate. Capitula subglobose, solitary or a few near 

 together, shgrtly pedunculate, about 1 in, diameter (exclusive of the 

 rays). Involucral bracts numerous lax, linear or linear-subulate, spinous- 

 acuminate, about | in. long. Ligule of the ray-florets about 1 in. lono-, 

 linear. Achenes somewhat hairy. Palese of the pappus about 15-20, 

 in several rows, denticulate-ciliolate at the obtuse round tip. — Cullu- 

 mia^ n. 2, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 638. 



xrile Xiand. Unyoro, Speke and Grant ! 



95. PLATYCAEPHA, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 462. 



Capitula homogamous few (3 or more) -flowered, collected in a 

 broad dense depressed-hemispherical head. Involucral scales gluma- 

 ceous, about 12, nearly equal, oblong acuminate. Receptacle very 

 narrow naked (or with narrow pale89 between the outer florets). 

 Corolla infundibuliform above, 5-lobed. Style- branches short ovate- 

 oblong rather obtuse. Achene (very transversely rugulose) with 

 5-8-10 2-seriate paleoB, linear-lanceolate or the inner -subulate. 



