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Herba annua vel perennis (?) erecta ramosa, 45 cm. alta vel ultra ; 

 rami adscendentes foliosi rigidi striati tenuiter albido-tomentosi, 

 demum glabrescentes, 10-16 cm. longi ; folia radicalia baud visa, 

 caulina erecto-patentia vel saepe recurva, sessilia auriculato-semi- 

 amplexicaulia, ambitu obovata, bipinnatipartita, pinnis 5-10-jugis, 

 basi per rhachin alato-decurrentibus, usque ad basin partitis, seg- 

 mentis rigidis linearibus vel lanceolato-linearibus spinoso-acuminatis, 

 basi spinellis recurvis donatis, marginibus revolutis nudis, supra 

 5-nerviis, nervis arete approximatis, dense setulosis, subtus 

 1-nerviis cinereo-tomentosulis, folia inferiora in specimine unico 

 ad 11 cm. longa, pinnulis 0-3-0-4 cm. latis, pleraque 3-6 cm. x 

 2-3 cm., pinnis infimis 2-4 saepius in spinulas reductis, folia 

 superiora sensim minora ; capitula homogama solitaria ad apices 

 ramulorum breviter pedunculata, pedunculis gracilibus 1-2 cm. 

 longis, rarius subsessilia, expansa 4-5*5 cm. diam. ; involucri foliola 

 foliacea, pinnulis similia, basi concreta tomentosa 4-seriata radiantia, 

 exteriora breviora, interiora 1*5-2 -5 cm. longa, flores duplo super- 

 antia; receptaculum alveolatum, fimbrillis capillaceis pallidis, 

 ad 0*5-0-9 cm. longis ; flores oo, corollis 0*7-0'8 cm. longis ; 

 pappi squama 2-seriat8e oblongae, obtusge, minute denticulatae albae, 

 0'06 cm. longae ; achaenia turbinata glabra, 0*13 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Transvaal Colony, near Standerton, common, Jan., Feb., 

 /. Btcrtt Davy, 899 ! 3359 ! 



Although the achenes are quite glabrous this seems to come 

 nearest to Stobcea bipinnatifida Harvey, differing by its much nar- 

 rower leaf-segments, larger heads, and relatively longer involucral 

 leaflets. The bristles on the upper surface of the leaves are much 

 coarser than those of B. setifera DC. It has excited some appre- 

 hension in the Transvaal by its alleged rapid spread in the 

 neighbourhood of Standerton, its spinous leaves being very 

 obnoxious to cattle. 



Bebkheya magalismontana Bolus, n. sp. (Arctotideae-Gorterieae 



§ Stobgea ?) 



B. foliis alternis ambitit oblongis lanceolatisve acutis pinnatifidis 

 vel rarius pinnato-dentatis, lobis spinoso-acuminatis interstitiis basi- 

 busque semper nudis, capitidis mediocribus, laxe corymbosis, vel 

 subsolitariis, pappi squamis variabilibus acutis vel subobtusis, apice 

 + laceratis, achceniis dense sericeo-villosis. 



Suffrutex erectus ramosus rigidus albo-tomentosus, ad 35 cm. 

 altus vel ultra ; rami adscendentes teretes, ad 23 cm. longi ; folia 

 alterna sessilia, inferiora conferta, superiora sensim pauciora, erecto- 

 patentia, vel subrecurva, ambitu lineari-oblonga, lanceolatave spinoso- 



