sclipta. | COMPOSITA (Harv.) 131 
ee =a — Lys. expanded, glabrous (114) Doria, 
Ann . With scan us... ... ... (to7) Stilpnogyne. 
Heads radiate: a ees 
Achenes flattened or winged ... ... ... ... ... (110) Cineraria. 
Achenes terete or angular: 
Pappus copious, in many rows: 
Disc-fl. fertile : 
Inv. scales separate, often calycled... (117) Senecio.- - 
TIny, se. connate, not calycled, valvate (118) Euryops. - 
Disc-fi. sterile: 
Pappus of curved, barbed, deciduous 
bristles. ose. ees sa ake ecg; 2 oe 
Pappus of straight, rigid bristles ... (115) Othonna. 
Pappus of few bristles, uniseriate: (sometimes 
wanting in disc-fl.): 
Disc-fi. fertile: 
Pappus in the disc-fi. of several, in 
the ray of few bristles... ... (109) Mesogramma.. 
Pappus of 4-5-curved, barbed 
Drs =.) 2 a Ab) DUpotbrix. 
Disc-fl. sterile without pappus... ... (116) Gymmnodiseus. 
Sub-tribe 6. CaLENDULER. Leaves mostly alternate, rarely opposite. Heads 
radiate, hetero-moncecious, the ray-fl. female ; the disc-fl. male, with abortive simple 
styles ; or rarely (in Dimorphotheca) some or all of the disc-fi. fertile. Anthers acute 
or cuspidate at base or very minutely tailed. Pappus none. (Gen. 120-124). 
Achenes quite beakless: 
Inv, uniseriate: 
Marginal achenes 3-cornered, eithersmooth, 
tubercled, orsharply toothed attheangles (120) Dimorphotheca. 
Marg. achenes covered with sharp thorny 
PE eas oe (aA) Konia. 
Pome. Ae Hse: 7s 
Iny. in few rows, 2-3 seriate: 
Marg. achenes nutlike, thick-shelled, either 
smooth, wrinkled, 3-cornered or 3-winged (123) Osteospermum. 
Achenes produced into a beak : 
Achenes 3-cornered, winglessorminutely winged (122) Oligocarpus. 
Achenes broadly 3-winged .... coos (121) Tripteris. 
Sub-tribe 1. HELIANTHES. (Gen. 39-44). 
Heads many-fi., heterogamous ; ray-ft. in few rows, female, short and 
narrow-ligulate ; disc-fl. tubular, 4-toothed, hermaphrodite. Recept. 
plano-convex, with linear-filiform pale, ciliate at the apex and equalling 
the achenes. Jnvol. in two rows, of 10-12 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 
scales. Stgle-branches in the disc-fi. linear, flattened, obtuse. Achenes 
of the ray 3-cornered, of the disc flattened, without pappus, either 
pointless or crowned with 1-3 minute teeth, the younger downy. DC. 
Prodr. 5, p. 489. . 
’ Tropical and subtropical herbs, erect or prostrate, scabrous or hairy. Leaves 
opposite, entire or serrate, penninerved. Pedunc. axillary, solitary or in pairs, one- 
headed. Flowers white. Name, from exAcura, to be deficient ; it wants pappus ! 
1, E. erecta (Linn.); stem and leaves appressedly strigose ; leaves 
oblongo-lanceolate, or lanceolate, tapering to each end, pedicels solitary or 
in pairs, 2-4 times as long as the lvs. DC. 1. ¢. p. 490. Dull. Hlth. fig. 137. 
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