Landtia.} LXXIII. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). 427 
Receptacle alveolate, fimbrillate with a few rather long subulate pales. 
—Schnittspahnia Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Linnea, 1842, p. 439; 
Ubiea Schimperi, J. Gay ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 447. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Roth! 
91. HAPLOCARPHA, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 457. 
Characters of Landtia; our species differs in long scape and the 
achenes with a Conspicuous paleaceous pappus, the pales subulate or 
aristate, and the ovary densely villous below. 
Exclusively South African. 
1. H. scaposa, Harv. Fl. Oap. iii. p. 465. Leaves elliptical or 
somewhat spathulate, rounded at apex, white cottony beneath, obso- 
letely so and slightly scabrid above, repand-dentate, about 3 in. long, 
narrowed at base into petiole. Scape about 10 in. long, white-cottony. 
Capitula Solitary, scarcely 1 in. diam. Involucral scales obtuse, in 
several rows, thinly cottony. Achenes glabrous, with a basal tuft of 
pilose-silky hairs that exceeds them, crowned with acute subulate 
scales which in our specimen are brown. Flowers yellow.—H. Thun- 
bergii, DO. Prodr. vi. p. 494, non Less. ex Harv. 
Mozamb. Distr. Near Sotschi, Kirk / alt. 3,000 ft. 
Occurs also in Eastern districts of Cape Colony, Kaffraria, Natal, Transvaal, etc. 
92. ARCTOTIS, Linn.; Benth et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 458. 
Capitula heterogamous radiate ; ray-florets ligulate 9. Involucre 
emspherical of pluri- or multiseriate scarious-tipped successively 
longer bracts, Style-branches connate to or near to the apex. Achenes 
Villous or with tufted basal hairs, back 3-5-costate with the lateral 
ndges winged, the wings incurved so as nearly to meet the median 
Midge, thus enclosing two dorsal cavities. Pappus 2-seriate, mner 
pales contorted, outer smaller or all minute.—Acaulescent or caules- 
cent herbs, more or less hoary or lanate; leaves entire or pinnatifid. 
Capitula Solitary on long or short peduncles; disk orange yellow or 
Purplish ; ray same or varying rose or white. 
Another Cape genus with the following exception. 
1. . pygmoea, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 448. Stemless, scarcely 
lin. high. “Leaves radical, oblong on elliptical, pinnatifid, attenuate at 
the base into a short petiole 3-8 in. long, scarcely pubescent above, 
White tomentose beneath, rather fleshy. Capitula rather small, soli- 
» Shortly peduncailate, falling short of the leaves. Outer involucral 
racts lanceolate, foliaceous, subtomentose. Corolla-tube of the disk- 
florets cottony. Achenes somewhat compressed, subulate with den- 
<— ae wings. Pappus-scales 8, oblong, pellucid, attenuate, dissected. 
nm ° 
Mile Zand. Abyssinia, Ouodgerate, Petit / 
H The Specimens aoea by ns, indy lent by Count Franqueville from the Richard 
erbarium, were too imperfect for us to see the achenes or flowers. 
