Pulicaria.] COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 121 
[Species ?? Unknown to us.] 
B. (Conyza) Natalensis (Sch. Bip. in Walp. Rep. 2, p. 971); an an- 
a, with oblong-linear, toothed, sessile, half ear-clasping, glabrescent 
eaves. 
Has. Natal, Krauss. 
B. (Conyza or Pluchea) Kraussii (Sch. Bip. 1. c. p. 972); shrubby; 
cauline leaves 1-2 inches long, 2-5 lines wide, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, toothed or entire, glabrous. 
Has. Natal, Krauss. 
AXXITI. INULA, Gaertn. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous ; ray-fl. in one row, female (or by 
abortion sterile), mostly ligulate, rarely subtubular, 5-fid ; disc-/l. her- 
maphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Jnvol. imbricate, in several rows. 
Recept. flat or flattish, naked. Anthers tailed at base. Achene beakless, 
subterete (very rarely 4-angled). Pappus in one row, of roughish bristles. 
DC. Prodr. 5, p. 463. 
A large genus, chiefly European and Asiatic, herbaceous, mostly perennial. 
Cauline leaves alternate, often amplexicaul, undivided, entire or serrated. Heads 
corymbose or solitary, and peduncled, yellow. Name of uncertain derivation. 
1. I. Africana (Lam. dict. 3, p. 256); “stem herbaceous, slender, 
scarcely hairy, branched ; leaves amplexicaul, subscabrid, gland-dotted 
beneath, the lower oblong, acute, serrated, the uppermost lanceolate, 
shorter, nearly quite entire ; branches 1-headed, some leafless, others 
sparingly leafy ; inv.-scales linear-setaceous.” DC. 1. c. 469. I. punctata, 
Less. Syn. 193. 
Has. Cape, Sonnerat in Hb. Lam. (fide DC. 1. c.) 
XXXIV. PULICARIA, Cass. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous ; ray-/t. female, in one row, nearly 
always ligulate; disc-fl. tubular, 5-toothed, hermaphrodite. ecept. 
naked, areolate, flattish. Jnvol. laxly imbricate in few rows, scales 
linear. Achen. beakless, downy, terete (not compressed). Pappus in 
~ two rows, the outer very short, coronzform, toothed ; the inner of 10-20 
rough bristles. DOC. Prodr. 5, p. 477- 
Herbaceous plants, chiefly European, afew African, growing in moist places, 
villous, erect, branched. Cauline leaves cordate-sagittate at base, entire, or toothed, 
lanceolate. Pedune. 1-headed. Flowers yellow. Name from pulex, a flea: the 
popular name is “‘ Flea-bane.” 
1, P. Capensis (DC. 1. c. 479); stem erect, simple below, corymbose 
above, silky-villous ; leaves (especially the younger) on both sides 
densely silky-villous, cordate-amplexicaul at base, oblongo-lanceolate, 
callous-mucronate and calloso-serrulate ; invol.-scales linear-acuminate, 
loosely imbricate, very villous ; ray-fl. narrow-ligulate, slightly longer 
than the involucre, 3-toothed; achenes thinly pubescent; outer pappus 
1o-toothed, inner of about 16 sete. Hrigeron scabrum, Th.! Cap. 665. 
Inula Capensis, Spr.! Herb. Un. Itin. 431. 
