378 MR. G. BENTHAM ON COMPOSITE. 
the style-branches of the fertile disk-florets which are almost uni- 
versal in Asteroides, and occasionally, if not very frequently, 
observable in Senecionidez. 
The leaves of Inuloidex are, with very few exceptions, alternate 
and entire, occasionally decurrent, very rarely opposite or lobed, the 
involueral bracts usually imbricate in several rows, scarcely ever 
showing that equality of a single or inner row, with or without 
small outer ones, so frequent in Senecionidez and Helenioidez. 
The capitula are most frequently heterogamous, with one or more 
rows of female florets almost, if not quite, universally fertile, the 
disk-florets sometimes also fertile, but in not a few genera sterile 5 
in some genera, however, the capitula are dicecious; and in a con- 
siderable number of the Helichrysum group of the subtribe 
Gnaphaliez, in all Angianthez, and in a few genera of other sub- 
tribes they are homogamous from the total absence of female 
florets. The receptacle is generally without pales, except in the 
subtribes Buphthalmex and Filaginez, and a very few scattered 
genera of other subtribes, where it is wholly or partially palea- 
ceous. The corollas of the female florets are either short, slender, 
and minutely toothed at the summit without any expanded limb, 
or produced into a trimerous entire or toothed ligula, the two 
inner lobes of the limb either entirely deficient or very rarely ap- 
pearing in the shape of one or two short slender appendages at 
the base of the ligula. The corollas of the disk are generally’ 
those of Asteroidez, Senecionidez, and allied tribes, with four or 
five short teeth or lobes, very rarely more deeply lobed, those of 
both sexes almost, though not quite, universally homochromous 
and usually some shade of yellow. "The anthers are never without 
the terminal appendage to the connective, which is normal in its 
shape; they are always more or less sagittate at the base; the 
auricles of adjoining anthers usually connate to the end and pro- 
duced beyond the polliniferous part into tails or fine hair-like 
appendages, either simple or fringed with long hair-like branches. 
These appendages or tails may be all free, or those of adjoining 
anthers connate, so as to form ten or five only to the whole an- 
drecium. In the former case they are sometimes (e. y. in many 
Gnaphalieze) so fine and short, and lie so close to the filament, 
that they may be readily, and have been frequently, overlooked ; 
aud they are, as above mentioued, absolutely wanting in some 
twelve to twenty species out of 1100. The style-branches of 
the fertile disk-florets may be more or less flattened, slender, or 
