186 COMPOSIT (Haryv.) [Stilpnophytum. 
3. C. pectinata (DC.! 1. c. 83); suffruticose at base, robust, diffuse, 
decumbent or ascending, densely fulvous-silky and shaggy ; branches 
robust, closely leafy ; leaves from a broad pectinated base, bipinnatisect, , 
roughly fulvo-sericeous, the lobes short, incurved, very hairy, obtuse ; 
pedune. elongate, naked, appressedly silky or glabrate ; inv.-scales 
ovate, bluntly acuminate, biseriate, numerous, faintly plurinerved, gla- 
brous; rays . . . ; achenes obovate, smooth, uniform. Lidbechia 
pectinata, Lckl.! in Hb, 
Has. Cape Recief, near Algoa Bay, Ecklon! Zey.! 2816. (Herb. Sd.) 
Very similar in character to C. sericea, but much more robust, with more copious, 
looser, longer, and tawny pubescence. Stems a foot in length, 2 lines diameter at 
base, very closely leafy, the leaves spreading. 
4, C. microglossa (DC.! 1. c. 83); diffusely much-branched from the 
crown ; branches elongate, leafy at intervals, softly and patently villous ; 
leaves scattered or tufted, from broad, pectinate bases, bipinnatisect, 
softly villous with long, spreading, very slender hairs, the lobes linear, 
thickish, callous-mucronate ; pedunc. very long = medial one scape- 
like, rising from the crown), villous with spreading hairs; inv.-scales 
20-30, biseriate, one-nerved, the outer ovate, the inner oblong, all gla- 
brous and membrane-edged ; rays shorter than the invol. (or none) ; 
achenes oblong-obovate, smooth, uniform. 
Var. flosenlosa; ray-fl. tubular, female or sterile. C. flosculosa, DC./ I. c. 
Has. Betw. Pedroskloof and Liliefontein, and on the Roodeberg, Drege! Speck- 
taakel, Namaqualand, Rev. H. Whitehead! 8. Betw. Zuurebergen and K1. Bruint- 
jeshoogte, Drege/ (Herb. Hk., D., Sd. ; 
Stems a foot long, purplish, interruptedly leafy. Leaves 14-2 inches long, pale, 
very villous, all the hairs widely spreading. Pedunc. 8-12 inches long, in fruit 
widely turbinate under the head. Iny.-scales with a single, dark-coloured midnerve. 
Except in the absence of the imperfectly ligulate rays, 1 find nothing to distinguish 
C. flosculosa, DC. 
LXXIII. STILPNOPHYTUM, Less. 
_ Heads many-fl., discoid, homogamous. Recept. flat, naked. Inv.-scales 
imbricated, pluriseriate, dry. Achenes oblong, cylindrical, angularly 
ribbed or striate and furrowed or cuneate, subcompressed. Pappus 
none. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 92. 
Glabrous shrubs with the habit of Athanasia, from which genus this is distinguished 
solely by the want of paleze between the flowers. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, 
linear, entire. Heads corymbose, rarely solitary. Flowers yellow. Name from 
artArvos, shining, and puroy, a plant ; the involucres are polished and glossy. 
Sub-genus 1. Eu-Srm.pnopurtum. Achenes cylindrical, rib-striate. Leaves alter- 
nate. Heads corymbose. 
Heads many-fiowered. Inv.-scales acute, serrulato-ciliate (1) linifolium. 
Heads 15~-20-flowered. Inv.-scales oblong, membr. edged (2) oocephalum. 
Sub-genus 2, As&Mia (Harv.) Achenes cuneate, sub-compressed. Leaves opposite. 
Heads solitary, terminal, on minute, axillary ramuli ... (3) axillare. 
1 8. linifo lium (Less.! Syn. 264); leaves linear-filiform or subulate, 
acute; corymb simple or slightly compound, 5-1o-20-headed ; inv. 
many ee scales. cre, oe serrulate ; heads 
