Tarchonanthus. | COMPOSITZ (Haryv.) 117 
14-34 inches long, 4-1 inch wide, except in var. 8. (whose female flowers are still 
unknown) tapering much to the base. The nervature is sometimes obvious, some- 
times nearly hidden, 
5. B. discolor (DC. 1. c. 430); leaves elliptical or elliptic-obovate, 
obtuse or subacute, repand-toothed or denticulate, cuneate at base, gla- 
brous and glossy above, whitish tomentose and strongly penninerved 
beneath ; racemes axillary and terminal, the males forming a thyrsus 
or panicle; invol. turbinate, scales in many rows, woolly at the edges, 
the inner scales of the female invol. lanceolate, glabrous. B. Natalensis, 
Sch. Bip., in Hb. Krauss, 243. 
Has. Uitenhage, Burchell, FE. Z.! Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber. Natal, Drege, 
eT = and M‘K. 348. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Karrega R., Zey.! 2783. (Hb. 
‘A large shrub or small tree, 15-20 f. high. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 1-14 in. 
wide. FI. dirty yellowish white. ‘The Dutch prepare an alkali from the ashes, 
for the manufacture of soap.” Mr. Gerrard. 
Imperfectly known species. 
B.?? uniflora (Harv.); female fl. heads 1-flowered, spicato-panicu- 
late, subsessile ; invol.-scales at first cobwebby, then glabrous, lanceo- 
late, sub-acute, keeled, dark brown ; pappus white ; eaves unknown. 
Has. Natal, on Mt. ranges 2000-3500 f., from 30-60 miles from the sea, Dr. 
Sutherland! (Herb. Hook.) ; 
A scrap of female inflorescence, without leaves, is all that we yet know of this 
plant, which, whether a Brachylena or not, seems to have marked characters. 
Excluded from the genus. 
B. trinervia (Sond.! in Linn. 23, p. 63). 
XXX. TARCHONANTHUS, L. 
Heads dicecious, few or several-fl. (rarely one-fl.). Znvol. of the male 
fl. of 5 scales, connate to their middle; of the female, of many separate 
scales, in a double row. ecept. hairy. Cor. tubular-campanulate, 
5-toothed, externally hairy and viscid, glabrous within. dale fi. : 
anthers exserted, connate, with long, setose tails, and glabrous filaments. 
Ovary abortive. Nectary (within the corolla) of large size, callous, 
hollow at top, simulating an ovary; style filiform, scarcely 2-lobed at 
the point. Female: stam. abortive. Nect.none. Style exserted, bifid ; 
the lobes revolute. Achene very woolly, without pappus. DC. Prodr. 
5» DP» 431. 
Strongly resin-scented S. African shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, coriaceous, 
netted-veined and at length glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Heads small, in 
terminal and axillary panicles, rarely subsolitary and axillary. Name from tapxos, 
pl. rapxea, funeral-rites, and avos, a flower. 
Sub. gen. 1. EvrarcHoyantuus. Fem. fl.-heads 3-5-flowered, with broadly- 
ovate inv.-scales. Achenes very woolly.—Leaves undivided.—(Sp. 1-2). 
Leaves lanceolate-oblong, tapering at base, 3-5 inches 
long ; fi. panicled Jrez eerie as 
Lvs. 1-14 inch long, oblong or obovate ; fl.-heads sub- 
politary OF YaCOMONG 46. ese. 
(1) camphoratus. 
(2) minor, 
