Chrysocoma. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 93 
1-headed. FI. pale-yellow. Name in honour of Fresenius, a Frankfort botanist, 
who wrote on Arabian and African plants. I have not seen Drege’s Fresenia? 5843, 
from the Kromriver. 
1, F. leptophylla (DC. 1.c.); leaves opposite, linear-subulate, glabrous. 
Has. Cederberg, Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Much-branched, woody, 6-12 inches high. Leaf-pairs nearly an inch apart. Lys. 
3-6 lines long. Nerve of the invol. scales ending in a long, prominent gland. 
2. F.? scaposa (DC. 1. c.); “leaves alternate, crowded at the base 
of the branches, linear, »i//ows with appressed hairs.” —DC. 
Has. Near Driekoppen, Karroo, Drege. 
‘Stem woody, dwarf: old branches clothed with the remains of leaves. Leaves 
6-8 lines long, either quite linear or wider near the tip. Fl. branches 3 inches long, 
1-headed, softly hairy. Invol. scales linear, villous. Cor. yellow, glabrous. Achenes 
oblong, silky-villous. Pappus double, rough, the outer short.”—D0. 1. ¢. 
XXIIL CHRYSOCOMA, Cass. 
Heads many fl. homogamous. Lecept. naked, somewhat honey-combed. 
Invol. campanulate, shorter than the flowers, imbricate, of oblong- 
lanceolate scales. Achenes laterally flattened, beakless, hispidulous. 
Pappusin one row, of slender, rough bristles. DC. Prod. 5, p. 353. 
8. African shrublets, with linear, scattered, mostly entire rarely lobed or pinnatifid 
leaves. Branches ending in long or short, 1-headed peduncles, rarely corymbose. 
Heads globose, yellow. Name, from xpusos, gold, and xoun, ahead of hair; alluding 
to the numerous bright yellow fi. heads. 
1, Eu_Chrysocoma.—Shrubs, with narrow, sessile leaves. Heads solitary. 
Leaves linear or filiform ; 
Leaves rigidly ciliate ; setose beneath... ... ... .-. ... (2) ciliata. 
Leaves glabrous, entire : 
Leaves flat, at least 4 line wide ; heads stalked ... (1) Coma-aurea, 
Leaves linear-filiform, about } line wide. 
Flowering branches leafy to the summit or nearit (3) tenuifolia. 
Fl. branches ending in a long or short peduncle : 
Lys. 2-5 lines long; unc. <7 ... (4) peduncularis. 
OES: as. see 
Lvs. elliptic-obl Em Pgs od “4 obleagifotia. oie 
vs. elliptic-oblong, Hipidly ciliate: © 2.5 c..- iss (6) i 
Lys. lobed or pinnatifid : 
Lys. 2—3-lobed, the lobes linear, blunt ... ... ... «=. (7) tridenta’ 
Lvs. pinnatifid, lobes on each side 2-3, blunt ... ... ... (8) pimmatifida. 
2. Heteropsis.—Herbs, with decurrent, pinnatifid leaves. Heads corymbose. 
Stem 2 ft. high, scabro-pubescent ; lvs. lyrate or pinnatifid (9) decurrens. 
Sub-genus I. Eu-Chrysocoma.— or. narrow, funnel-shaped, with recurved lobes. 
Style deeply bifid. Sete of pappus straight, rather broader at the points. Small 
rubs, with narrow, entire or lobed, sessile leaves. Heads solitary (Sp. 1-8). 
1. C. Coma-aurea (Linn. Sp. 1178); shrubby, glabrous or nearly so ; 
leaves scattered, linear, subacute, spreading or recurved, quite entire; 
heads shortly pedunculate,-120-150 flowered. DC. 7. ¢. p. 353. Pluk. 
Alm. t. 327, f. 2. C. aurea, Th. Cap. p. 626. C. patula, Linn. Th. Cap. 
Le. O. cernua, Linn. Thunb. ! Cap. l. ¢. (ex pte.). Sieb, fl. Cap. n. 32. 
Has. Western districts, common. (Herb. Th., Sd., Hk., &c.) 
A much branched shrub, 1-1} feet high, the branches corymbose, fastigiate, 
