perennial; stem herbaceous, weak, erect, sparingly branched, leafy, scabro-pubescent; cauline leaves membranous, ear-clasping and tapering much at base, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and unequally toothed, scabrous above, paler and more or less glabrous beneath; fl. branches nude and pedunculoid at the apex, mostly one-headed, very scabrid; heads discoid, 80–100 fl.; inv. calycled, of many linear-acuminate, scabrous scales, achenes compressed, rib-striate, minutely scabrid. Stem 2–3 ft. or more high, fistular upwards, supporting itself among bushes (?) but scarcely climbing. Leaves scattered, tapering at base into an imperfect petiole, the lower ones 2–3 inches long, 1 inch wide. Upper leaves sessile, broad-based, often deeply incised, with larger ears at base. Peduncles mostly 1-headed, rarely branched. Burke & Zeyher's specimens from Magalisberg and Mooje R. seem to have grown in drier and more exposed places than those of Natal, being dwarfer, more erect, with more rigid foliage, &c. The natural affinities of this sp. are to me very doubtful.
