Euryops. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 423 
rough or barbellate pappus.—Low shrubs with alternate often crowded 
fleshy entire or incised leaves and pedunculate axillary yellow capitula. 
A considerable genus of the Cape region. 
1, E. pinifolius, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 445, t. 60. A procum- 
bent glabrous undershrub; branches woody, terete, densely leafy or 
closely marked with the scars and pulvini of fallen leaves. Leaves 
linear, obtuse, fleshy, subterete, 3-1 in. long, sessile. Peduncles terete, 
rigid, solitary in the upper axils, 1}-24 in., corymbosely arranged, 
straw-coloured. Involucre hemispherical, 3-3 in. diameter, composed 
of about 12 ovate-oblong bracts, connate nearly half way. Capitula 
solitary, many-flowered ; marginal florets ligulate ; ligules oblong. 4-5- 
nerved, 3 in. long. Disk-florets about equalling the involucre. 
Achenes glabrous. 
ing Zand. Abyssinia, Oudgerate, Petit! Somali-land, alt. 6,000 feet, Hilde- 
f 
E. arabicus, Steud. (Carea pinifolia, Hochst.) in Herb. Schimp. Arab. n. 852, 
much resembles our species but perhaps differs by shorter peduncles and fewer 
ivolucral bracts, 
86. OTHONN A, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 453. 
Capitula (heterogamons, radiate or) ray-florets wanting. Involucre 
rampanulate or oblong (or hemispherical); bracts 1-seriate, equal, 
more or less connate at the base or nearly quite free, margins imbri- 
cate; calyculus 0. Style in 1 or more of the outer florets 2-fid; bran- 
ches obtuse or truncate, penicillate, of the rest of the florets undivided. 
Chenes terete with a copious white pappus.—Shrubby or herbaceous 
With alternate more or less fleshy entire or variously toothed or dis- 
Sected leaves, and terminal usually yellow solitary or cymose capitula. 
A considerable South African genus. . 
l. o, Bainesii, 0. § H. Shrubby, glabrous or nearly so. Bran- 
ches snlcate (in the dry state). Leaves elliptical, rounded at apex, 
Somewhat narrowed to the sessile 3- or 5-nerved base, fleshy, coriaceous 
When dry, $-2 in. long, about twice the length of the internodes; 
Veins inconspicuous except base. Heads campanulate-oblong, 3 ing 
Pearly 1 in. long, on bracteate peduncles, terminal and subterminé . 
Involucral bracts oblong, about 5, subconnate at base, nearly 3 in. 
ong ; tip ovate, subobtuse, obsoletely ciliolate. Florets all tubular ; 
Corolla, exceeding the involucre and pappus. Achenes costate, very 
shortly hairy. 
South Central? South African Gold Fields, Baines ! 
87. TRIPTERIS, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 455. 
Capitula heterogamons, radiate ; ray-florets ligulate ?, disk-florets 
tubular, Sterile. Tnvoluere campanulate or spreading ; anes sub-* 
seriate, linear or subulate above with scarious margins. a - wit 
Produced contiguous appendices connate. “Style of sterile fore 
