Geigeria. | COMPOSIT (Hary.) 127 
ribbed and furrowed, gland-dotted ; leaves shortly linear (4—5 times as 
long as wide), flat, thick, midribbed, blunt, submucronulate, gland- 
dotted ; heads solitary in the forks and terminal, sessile; inv.-scales 
ovate-oblong, mucronate, the inner tomentose above ; fimbrils longer 
than the achenes, multifid, concrete ; achenes pubescent ; pappus of 
many, short, toothed scales. Polychetia brevifolia, DC. 1. c. 285. 
Has. Beyond the Gariep, Burchell, 2171. Cape, Hb. Hooker! (Herb. Hk.) 
A foot or more in height, loosely much-branched, rigid, the branches straight, 
spreading, ramulous. Leaves subdistant, shorter than the internodes, 3-4 lines 
long, ra line wide, conspicuously multipunctate (as well as the branches) on each 
side of the midrib ; the very young leaves cobwebbed.. Heads ovoid, 3 lines long, 
the younger woolly at top. Fimbrils broad, involving the achenes. Lobes of dise- 
fl. externally glandular, with thick nerves. Rays short, 3-toothed. Style branches 
of disc long, linear, flattened, puberulous. The pappus is somewhat different from 
that of other species, and apparently in a single row. 
8. G. pectidea (Harv.); stem shrubby, terete, glabrous ; leaves 
broadly linear, or linear oblong, narrowed to the base, cuspidate-mucro- 
nate, pungent, flat, midribbed and margined, subdenticulate, impress- 
dotted ; heads 4 or more together, cymoso-glomerate, sessile; outer 
inv.-scales shortly leaf-topped, inner ovate, cuspidate, pungent, outer 
pappus of oblong, blunt, inner of bristle-pointed scales ; achenes very 
villous. Polychetia pectidea, DC. 1. c. 285. 
Has. Region beyond the Gariep, Burchell. Gariep, near Verleptpram, Drege ! 
2894. (Herb. Sond.) 
I have only seen a flowering branch, 3-4 inches long. Leaves nearly uncial, about 
2 lines broad, rigid, strongly midribbed, somewhat veiny and ener ie pungent- 
mucronate. It has all the gen. characters of a Geigeria. 
Tribe 4. SENECIONIDE. Flower-heads heterogamous, or homogamous, or 
moncecious (dise #, ray 2). Style-branches (in the hermaphrodite flowers) long, linear, 
flattish, obtuse or truncate, pencilled at the apex or tipped with a bristly cone ; in 
the male-fl. the styles are simple or emarginate, more or less pencillate or bristle- 
tipped. Habit various. (Gen. 39-124). 
Sub-tribe 1. Hetrantoex. Leaves ite, expanded, petiolate. Recept. 
hana sen the disc-flowers. ah AN without tails, dark-coloured. 
Paphos Lk tow Wk persiabeais Swink or heme. (Gen. 39-44). 
Achenes beakless, without : , Pave 
Recept. flat. Inv. scaler Lendate; ooche-ahabe ... (39) Ecliptaa - “9/ 
Recept. fiattish. Inv. double; outer of 5 spathulate, ei 
spreading, leafy scales... ... ... ... ... «.. (40) Siegesbeckia. 732 
Recept. conical. Inv. scales short, appressed ... (44) Spilanthes. . /33 
Ach. beaked, bearing 2-5 rigid, retrorsely hispid bristles (42) Bidens. - /33 
Achenes beakless, with pappus : 
Pappus cup-shaped, toothed ... ... ... ... -.. (41) Wedelia, © “92 
Pappus of 8-10, rigid, unequal, rough bristles os (43) Lipotriche. -/33 
Sub-tribe 2. Hetentex. Leaves mostly alternate (in opposite). Recept. 
of sovirel Mak: ry, separate, conspicuous scales in a single row (occasionally with a 
few sioner SeMibe oar mins poyipoa) (Gen. 45-49). 
Recept. without palex. s 
Iny. uniseriate. A glabrous, aquaticherb ... ... (45) Cadiscus. S95 
Recept. bearing pales the dise-flowers : 
Leaves opposite, linear. Heads conglomerate, in- oe 
WORIIOEGIL 5 csc 20 Sve tek wee) vec wee (46) Coen, Fd. toe 
