200 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Eviocephalus. 
and a simple, club-shaped, truncate style. Zecept. bearing pales. Inv. 
double, the outer campanulate, of 4-5 ovate, free scales ; the inner of 
cohering seales, very woolly externally. Achenes of the ray flattened, 
wingless, without pappus. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 145. 
Much-branched, rigid, mostly silky or silvery shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, 
or fascicled, small, mostly linear, simple or trifid, rarely glabrous. Heads pedicellate 
or sessile, racemose, umbellate or solitary, subglobose, after flowering becoming very 
woolly. Name from epioy, wool, and kepados, a head: woolly-head ; the colonial 
name is Capok-bosch. The species have a great resemblance to each other, and 
perhaps I have retained too many. 
Sect. 1. PoanogynE (DC.). Corolla of the ray conspicuously ligulate, longer 
than the style and involucre, obovate or cuneate, bluntly 3-toothed. (Sp. 1-12.) 
* Heads pedicellate, sub-corymbose : 
Leaves (or many of them) 3—5-lobed : 
Silky or silvery-pubescent ; 
Inner invol. septiferous within : 
Leaves 6-12 lines long, silky ie Se 1) roan. 
Leaves 3-5 lines long, silvery ... ... (2) septulifer. 
Inner invol. not septiferous : 
Silky-villous ; heads loosely corymbose (3) sericeus, 
Silvery ; hds. sub-sessile, in close corymbs (4) capitellatus. 
Glabr. Lvs. 3-fid, the lateral lobes bifid, mucronate (5) petrophiloides. 
Leaves all quite entire ; (rarely minutely unidentate) : 
Leaves glabrous, impress-dotted or smooth : 
Outer iny.-scales with amembr. border ... (6) punctulatus. 
Outer iny.-scales not bordered ... ...... (7) pteronioides. 
Leaves glabrous, rough with raised tubercles .., (8) tuberculosus. 
Leaves pubescent or sedi : 
Hds. mostlyracemose; ray-fi.cuneate, elongate (9) scariosus. 
Hds. umbellate; ray-fl. broadly obovate ... (10) umbellulatus. 
** Heads solitary, sessile at the ends of the twigs : 
Heads bearing pencils of long, straight, silky hairs ... (11) eximius, 
Heads bearing curled, woolly hairs (as in most species) (12) spinescens. 
Sect. 2. CryprocyNne (DC.). Corolla of the ray inconspicuous, nearly hidden 
within the involucre, shorter than the style, tubular, subentire or obliquely truncate, 
or imperfectly ligulate. (Sp. 13-17.) 
Leaves silky-villous or conspicuously pubescent : 
Not spinescent. Heads in leafy, unilateral racemes... (13) racemosus. 
Subspinescent. Leaves short, 2-5 lines long. 
Heads solitary, shortly pedicellate, terminal ... (14) aspalathoides. 
Heads on slender pedicels, axillary or subumbell. (15) pubescens. 
Leaves glabrous or minutely puberulous : 
- Lys. 1-2 lineslong. Heads several-flowered, racemose 
GP BYNCRNE sc as ote se, Was ses ee es © (16) plaher, 
Lys, 2-3 lines long. Has. few-fl., racemose, very small (17) microcephalus. 
§ 1. PuHmyocrne, DC. (Sp. 1-12.) 
1. E. Africanus (Linn.! Sp. 1310) ; leaves opposite or tufted, silky- 
pubescent, thickish, obtuse, linear or trifid, channelled ; heads umbel- 
late at the ends of the branches, the inner involucre having three 
projecting ridges (septa) within. Less./ Syn. 269. 4. septifer, Cass. 
DC. t, ¢. 145. Dill. Hlth. t. 110, rms 
Has. Cape, Thunbery! (Herb. Thunb. ; 
_ OF this 2 wie only i enue Seihoce flowers, in Hb. Th. Leaves 6-12. 
lines long, thinly silky, 4 line thick. és 
