Amellus.] COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 61 
Heads large, terminating the branches, solitary or 2-3 in acorymb. Flowers yel- 
low. The name is that of one of the nymphs, fancifully applied to this genus. 
Invol. scales thinly cobwebby, becoming glabrous ....... .... (1) Tabularis. 
Invol, scales densely and persistently woolly ... ... ... ... (2) lanata. 
1. A. Tabularis (DC.1.c.p.210); stemshrubbyat base, erect, branched ; 
branches tomentose, elongate, bearing 1-3 flower heads ; leaves short-, 
petioled, ovate or oval, entire or sinuato-denticulate, cobwebby, becom- \", 
ing glabrous above, woolly tomentose beneath; invol. scales oblong- | 
linear, soon glabrous, sub-biseriate, the outer ones "few and loose, Arnica 
Tabularis, Th.! Cap. 668. Ligularia Tabularis, Less. Celmisia rotundi- 
folia, Cass. 
Has. Table Mt., Thunberg, Drege; Muysenberg, W. H.H. (Hb. Th., D.,Sd.,Hk.) 
1-2 feet high, the branches with deciduous tomentum. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 
1} inch wide, an inch or two apart. Branches naked at the summit, with a few 
linear, scattered bracts. 
2. A lanata (DC. 1.c.); stem shrubby, erect, subsimple, very densely 
woolly; branches few, woolly, prolonged into long peduncles, bearing 
1-2 fl.-heads; leaves petiolate, cordate-ovate, obtuse, with subrevolute 
margin, coriaceous, laxly woolly, becoming glabrous above, densely 
woolly beneath; inv. scales densely and persistently woolly, 2-3-seriate. 
Arnica lanata § A. grandis, Th. ! Cap. 667,668. Ligularia lanata, Less. 
Has. Roodesand, near Winterhoek, Th.; near Tulbagh, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., 
k. 
auch Aan densely and persistently woolly than the preceding ; with larger lvs. 
and longer peduncles, Leaves 3-4 inches long, 2}-3 inches wide. Peduncles 12-1 5 
inches long. 
XII, AMELLUS, Cass. 
Heads many-flowered, mostly heterogamous; ray fl. ligulate, in one 
series, female and fertile; disc ft. hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed :— 
rarely heads homogamous and discoid. Recept. convex, covered with 
palece between the flowers. nvol. scales inbricated, rigid, acuminate, 
the inner ones assimilated to the palew. Achenes wedge- shaped, com- 
pressed, those of the ray somewhat 4-angled, scabrous, of the disc 
Saint scabrous edged. Pappus of the ray of a few very short, une- 
qual scales ; of the disc double, the outer similar to that of the ray, the 
inner of 4—5 scabrous, deciduous bristles. DC. Prodr. 5, p. 213. 
Small suffrutices or herbs, all 8. African. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, 
oblong, entire or few-toothed, strigillose or canescent. Peduncles terminal, 1-headed, 
ae fi. blue ; disc yellow. Name adopted from the ancients. 
- Perennes; Root perennial. Stems rigid, half-woody. (Sp. 1-3.) 
Thinly silky, with close-pressed hairs ; leaves broad or nar- 
lar ihren iin a inion vs vey cog ee 
entire or toothed e very at (a) hispidus. 
Sparingly setulose, with subappressed hairs ; heads small seabridus. 
A. Annui; Root annual. Stems herbaceous. ¢ > “3 
Palew of recept. aowninate, as long as the di fi., or longer : 
TO cen Oa simple, ith minute, — 
° wi ad 
bescence, and long hairs... .,. (4) anisatus. 
