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GAMOLEPIS EURYOPOIDEs. ie Ee 
Native of South Africa. 
~ Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe SENECIONIDER. 
- F 
Gamonris, Less. (Benth et Hook, Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 452.) 
GanoLEris euryopoides ; fructicosa, erecta, glaberrima ramis foliosis, foliis confertis 
patulis breviter petiolatis ad medium v. infra 3-fidis, lobis linearibus subacutis, 
pedunculis gracilibus pedunculis bis-terve longioribus, capitulis 1-1} poll. 
diam., involucri hemispherici bracteis 1-seriatis fere liberis late oblongis 
subacutis, fl. radii ad 8-10 ligulis oblongis, acheniis lineari-obovoideis multi- 
costatis glaberrimis. 
G. euryopoides, DC. Prod. vol. vi. p. 41; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 157- 
Gamolepis is a South African genus of Composite, num- 
bering about twelve species, of which none but that now 
figured have hitherto been known to be in cultivation. Most 
of them are shrubby perennials suited for greenhouse culture ; 
and a few are of very singular habit, resembling in their 
foliage heaths, lycopods, and mosses. The @. polytrichoides 
is the most remarkable of these; it is a very slender branched 
shrub, whose branches are uniformly clothed with crowded 
spreading and recurved needle-shaped leaves, and bear at their 
tips a capillary pedicel terminated by a minute flower ; the re- 
semblance of the plant to a gigantic moss is almost deceptive ; 
it is a native of grassy places near Grahamstown and is well 
worth introducing into England. : : 
The genus Gamolepis was placed in Anthemidez previous to 
Bentham’s revision of the Order for the ‘ Genera Plantarum,’ by 
whom it is rightly placed in Senecionidee and near to Senecio 
itself, from which it differs in the absence of pappus; its 
nearest ally is Ewryops, after which the present species 18 
named. ae 
G. euryopoides is a native of the mountains of British 
Caffraria, Uitenhage, and Albany, at about 2000 ft. elevation ; 
it was raised at Kew from seed sent by Mr. Tuck, of the 
Grahamstown Botanic Gardens, in 1868, and flowers annually 
on the Cape shelf of the temperate-house. 
