Eumorphia.] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 153 
Vak. 8. nana; outer iny.-scales dark-edged (variably so). U. nana, DC. l. . 
Has. Var. a., Nieuweveld, betw. Brakrivier and Uitvlugt, 3-4000 f. Drege’ 
Bitterfontein, Namaqualand, Zey./ 822. Var. 8. Silverfontein, Drege! Zwartkops 
River, Uitenhage, Zey.! 2792. Kreili’s Country, H. Bowker! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Two to twelve inches high, branched from the base. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 
the lobes }-} line diameter. Pedune. 1-2 inches long. Heads 5~6 lines across. 
I adopt Lessing’s name for the two sp. of DC. above indicated, and which I cannot 
satisfactorily separate. To these might perhaps be added U. abyssinica, Sch. Bip. ! 
(Schimp! 1238). Nor can I distinguish ‘ Sphenogyne feniculacea,” Eck.! No. 312 
(non Less.) which is by DC. referred to his “ U. tenuiloba” from the present: it 
has every appearance of having an annual root. 
10. U. pygmea (DC. 1. c. p. 690); annual, dwarf, corymbosely 
branched, glabrous; leaves pinnati-partite beyond the middle, the lobes 
in few pair, linear-filiform, acute ; pedunc. shorter than the leaves; 
outer inv.-scales ovate, setaceo-acuminate, glabrous; pales dissimilar, 
the outer sheathing, the inner very narrow, all tipped with a roundish- 
reniform, membranous scale ; rays (concolourous ?), 
Has. Valleyfontein, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
The specimens are 1-2 inches high, including the short peduncle, branched from 
the base ; leafy nearly to the summit. The leaves are about ? inch long, some 2-3- 
jugate, others three-parted. Heads 2-3 lines across. The rays are withered. 
L. EUMORPHIA, DC. 
Heads many-fl., radiate, solitary ; ray-fl. uniseriate, female ; disc-/l. 
hermaphrodite. Jnvol. imbricate. Recept. convex, covered with palez, 
inrolling the flowers. Cor. of disc tubular, 5-toothed, cylindrical, not 
glandular, dilated at base above the ovary. Anthers without tails. 
Branches of the disc-styles divergent, exserted, obtuse; of the ray 
longer, subacute. <Achenes glabrous, prismatic, 3-4-angled, without 
pappus. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 2. 
A small, glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, imbricated, linear, very short. Heads 
terminal, sub-pedicellate, with white rays and a yellow disc. Name from ev, well, 
and yuoppn, a form; alluding to the neatness of foliage. 
1. E. Dregeana (DC. 1. c. p. 3); Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 70. Zey.! 960. 
Has. Sneeuweberg, 4—5000 ft., Drege! Dr. Wallich! Africa’s Hoogde, Burke and 
Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A rigid, woody, erect shrub, 1-2 feet high, much-branched and ramulous. Leaves 
2 lines long, linear-terete, very blunt, decussate, closely imbricated, or, on the flower- 
branches more distant, when dry with a dorsal furrow. Pedune. half an inch long, 
mostly with 1 or 2 pair of leaves. Heads small. Invol. scales linear, blunt, shorter 
than the disc. 
LI. LASIOSPERMUM, Lag. 
Heads many-fi., heterogamous ; ray-fl. female, either ligulate or minute 
and tubular; dise-fl. tubular, 5-toothed, hermaphrodite. Recept. broad, 
paleaceous. Jnvol. broadly campanulate, the scales imbricated, shorter 
than the disc. Branches of dise-style truncate. Achenes wingless, with- 
out pappus, the younger hairy, the old envolved in very thick wool. DC. 
Prodr. 6, p. 37. 
Glabrous, S. African herbs or half-shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect, with 
linear lobes. Peduncles long, terminal, one-headed. Ray-fl. when present white ; 
dise yellow. Name from Aacios, hairy, and orepua, a seed. 
