Compilation
Gazania longiscapa

collum divided; subradical leaves petioled, either quite glabrous or sparsely hispidulous above, white-woolly except the nerve beneath, some lanceolate-acuminate [or “elliptic oblong,” DC.] undivided, others pinnatisect, with linear-lanceolate acute lobes, all with the margins reflexed, cartilagineo-ciliate; pedunc. glabrous, longer than the leaves; inv. glabrous, truncate at base, obovoid, the lobes linear-subulate, bi-triseriate, longer than the tube, much acuminate, the outer ciliate. Except in foliage, which is very variable, and in the glabrous peduncle, this scarcely differs from G. subulata. I do not however find the petiole rigidly ciliate as in that species. Mr. McKen's specimen has very narrow leaves, almost like those of G. subulata; he tells me that the Kaffir name is ‘Bensli,’ and that the small fringe which constitutes the dress of the young girls is made from the under surface of the leaves, scraped off.