156 COMPOSITA ( Harv.) [Gamolepis. 
5-toothed, hermaphrodite. Recept. convex, naked or slightly honey- 
combed. Jnv.-scales numerous, uniseriate, connate into a cup for one- 
third or half their length, or more. Branches of the disc-style tipped 
with a cone. Achenes glabrous, wingless, without pappus, with a ter- 
minal areole. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 41. Psilothamnus, DC. l. ¢. 41. 
Small shrubs or herbs, mostly glabrous. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect, rarely 
entire. Pedunc. one-headed. Flowers yellow. Naturally allied to Euryops, from _ 
which it is known by the want of pappus, and the appendaged styles. Name from 
yopew, to marry of unite, and Aems, @ scale ; alluding to the connate invol-scales. 
Annual. Lys. pinnati-partite. Inv. ovate-urceolate (1) Tagetes. 
Shrubs or suffrutices. Invol. expanded : 
Pedune. long and slender (at least 4 times as long as leaves, usually many- 
times) : 
Leaves pinnatifid or pinnati-partite : 
Lys. crowded, 1-2 inches long ; lobes 
broad, flat, oblong, nerved ....... 
Lys. imbricate, 4 inch long ; lobes shortly 
subulate, pungent... < 
Lys. sparse, 1 inch long ; lobes narrow- 
linear, semiterete ... ... ... ... (5) debilis. 
Leaves 3-lobed or 3-forked : 
Pedune. many times longer than the leaves : 
Achenes quite glabrous. Leaves glabrous or powdery. 
Stem much-branched, flexuous, 
closely leafy ; lvs. 4-9 lines 
(2) chrysanthemoides. 
(ro) munita. 
Ong. Oe ee ee 
- Stem sub-simple, straight, laxly 
leafy; lvs. 14 incheslong ... (6) laxa. 
Achenes velvetty. Stem short, 
simple. Leaves pilose ... ... (9) hebecarpa. 
Pedune. about 4 times as long as the 
leaves. St. and lvs. quite glabrous... (8) euryopoides. 
Leaves simple, short, subulate, imbricate or 
app: (11) ericoides. 
Pedune. short (twice as jong as leaves at most, usually much shorter) : 
Leaves pinnati-partite : 
Achenes tuberculated ... ... ... (3) pectinata. 
Achenes smooth ... ...... ... (4) brachypoda, 
Leaves 3-forked (or mostly so) : 
Axils woolly. Pedune. scarcely 
longer than leaves... ... ... (4) brachypoda +. 
Axils glabrous. Pedunc. twice as 
long asleaves ... ... ... ... (7) euryopoides. 
Leaves entire, linear, mucronate... ....... (4) brachypoda p. 
1. G. Tagetes (DC. 1. c. 40); annual, slender, corymbosely branched ; 
leaves pinnati-partite, the lobes linear, on each side 5-7, either quite 
entire or with 1-2 lobules, obtuse ; invol. ovate-urceolate, the scales 
to-15, concrete much beyond their middle. Othonna Tagetes, Linn. 
Sp.1309. Thunb.! Cap.723. Gamolepis annua, Less.! Syn. 251. Psilo- 
thonna Tagetes, E. Mey.! 
Has. On the Cape Flats, Thunb./ 2. Z.! W.H.H.! Groenekloof, ! (Herb. 
eo cael te 3 
» wiry, glabrous, mostly branching annual, 3-10 inches high, the 
branches flexuous, ending in een nearly the same level, Leaves 1-1} inch 
long, the lobes }-} inch. Rays broad, revolute, deep and bright yellow or full-orange- 
2, G. chrysanthemoides (DC. |. c. 40); glabrous, dichotomous ; 
