Steirvodiscus. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 159 
10. G. munita (Less.! Syn. 251); quite glabrous, erect, sub-dichoto- 
mous, branches closely imbricated with short leaves; leaves erect-incur- 
ved, sessile, rigid, strongly midribbed, pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 
three, shortly subulate, acuminate, nerved; pedunc. elongate, wiry, from 
the forks, or the ends of the branches; invol. campanulate, its scales 
about 12, concrete to about their middle; achenes smooth. DC.l.c.p. 40. 
Othonna munita, Linn. f.suppl. 388. Th. ! Cap.722. Osteospermum fallax, 
Spr. !—DC. ! 1c. p. 467. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Worcester, Eckl, Gauritz R., Burchell. Kromriver, Lange- 
kloof, Drege! Vanstaadenberg, Zey./ 2809. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) ; 
A very rigid small shrub, t-2 f. high; the forked branches clothed throughout 
with close lying pale-green neat foliage. Leaves about } inch long, the lobes 1-2 
lines long, broad or narrow, very acute, keeled. Pedunc. 6-8 inches long, quite 
naked. Invol. scales acuminate. Rays yellow, obtuse, 2-3 times as long as involucre. 
11. G. ericoides (Less. ! Syn. 251); stems shrubby, di-tri-chotomons, 
much branched, closely imbricated with short leaves, sparingly cobwebby 
in the axils, otherwise quite glabrous ; leaves trigono-subulate orsubulate, 
rigid, very acute, erect or erecto-patent, more or less incurved or closely 
appressed ; pedunc. elongate ; invol. scales connate for about a third their 
length, lanceolate, acute; achenes (not quite ripe) ridged and furrowed, 
the ribs warted. DC.l.c.41. Also Psilothamnus ericifolius, DC. l.¢. 41. 
Othonna ericoides, Th. !. Cap. 717. 
Var. 8, adpressifolius; rather more slender; leaves very closely appressed, the 
branches rope-like. Psilothamnus adpressifolius, DC.! 1. c. 
Var. y. incurvifolius; more robust; leaves hooked inwards, trigono-subulate, 
keeled, on each side bisuleate. Othonna ericoides, Thunb. ! in Herb. 
Has. Cannaland, Thunberg! Swellendam and Albany, Drege! Uitenhage, F. ¢ Z. 
Amsterdamvlacte, mouth of Zwartkops Rr. Zey./ B and 7, in the same localities. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A small, much branched, erect, rigid shrub; branches many times irregularly 
forked and closely imbricated with leaves throughout. Leaves 14-24 lines long, 
from broadish, clasping bases, sometimes trigono-subulate, with a very thick midrib, 
margined on each side by an evident lamina (as in Thunberg’s and some of E. § Z.’s 
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Padune: wiry, 6-8 ince long. ers small. Mawel scales inly connate, ook 
to a rather less extent than in other species.— Nearly allied to G. munita, chiefly 
differing in foliage. 
LV. STEIRODISCUS, Less. 
Heads several-fl., heterogamous ; ray-/l. female, ligulate, disc. herma- 
phrodite but sterile, terete, 5-toothed. Recept. naked. Jnvol. campanu- 
late, of many scales in a single row. Ovaries of disc linear, glabrous, 
without pappus, always sterile. Branches of disc-style tipped with a 
cone, Achenes of ray-fi. obovoid, silky. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 74. 
Small annuals with the is Tagetes in miniature. Leaves ti- 
partite; the lobes linear- filiform, oo eee or with 1—2 lobules, ohien 
Heads terminal, solitary, with 5-1o rays. Name from creipos, sterile and dickos, the 
disc ; because the disc-Howers are sterile, 
1, S. capillaceus (Less. Syn. 251); inv. scales green (not-dotted), with 
narrow margins, subacute; rays 5-6, pale yellow as the disc. DC. l.¢, 
74 Cineraria capillacea, Th. ! Cap. 672. 
