Leontonyx.| COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 205 
obtuse, white appendix. Anthers shortly tailed. Style-branches trun- 
cate. Achene obovate-oblong, beakless, minutely downy. Pappus in 
one row, bristle-shaped. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 154. 
A tall, branching undershrub, with rod-like, canous branches. Leaves alternate, 
decurrent, lanceolate, mucronate, green above, white beneath, one-nerved, with sub- 
recurved margins. Heads in branching, subsessile corymbs, the branches bracteate. 
Inv. oblong, 24 lines long, the inner scales opaque, snow-white, as are also the palez. 
The aspect is that of a Helichrysum, from which genus this is readily known by the 
pales of the receptacle. The name is in honour of W, v. Rhyne, a traveller in S. 
Africa of the 17th century. 
1. R. phylicefolia (DC. in Del. Ic. 4, t. 52); DC. Prodr. 1. ¢. 
Has. Various localities near Natal, Drege! Plant, Gueinzius, Gerr. § M‘Ken, &e. 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 2-3 ft. high, much branched. Lwvs. 3-1 inch long, 2-4 lines wide, coriaceous. 
LXXVII. LEONTONYX, Cass. 
Heads 20-30 fl., homo- or heterogamous, a few of the marginal fl. 
female, the rest perfect. Recept, flat and naked. Jnv. imbricated, the 
outer scales very woolly, the inner elongate, rigidly membranous, hooked 
or straight. Achenes sessile, oblong, granulated. Pappus in a double 
row, copious, of very slender, caducous bristles, equalling the flowers. 
DC. Prodr. 6, p. 167. 
Herbaceous or suffruticose, densely woolly, 8. African plants. Leaves alternate, 
sessile, obovate or spathulate. Heads mostly crowded at the ends of the branches, 
rarely solitary, closely subtended by a false involucre of leaves. This genus scarcely 
differs from Helichrysum ; the character of the double pappus is not very definite or 
easily seen ; but the habit is peculiar. The generic name is compounded of Aewy, a 
lion, and ovvx, a claw; alluding to the hooked inyol.-scales. Lessing’s L. pusillus 
will be found under Helichrysum (H. pachyrhizum ). 
Inner inv.-scales acute or acuminate, hooked or straight : 
Inv.-scales remarkably hook-pointed : 
Stem robust, ascending ; lower lvs. larger and closer (1) squarrosus. 
Stem slender, diffuse or prostrate, equally leafy throughout : 
Inv.-scales rufous, rosy, or pale straw-colour... (2) glomeratus, 
Inv.-scales yellow, with a bright red medial spot, 
POlOn PARE: Boe ie i wi ee eee QB) OOO. 
Inv.-scales straight or slightly recurved, not hooked. 
Leaves obovate, flat’... °° 05 9 us es > ee (2) Blomeratus p. 
Leaves linear-spathulate, snowy white ... ...... (4) angustifolius. 
Inner inv.-scales obtuse or bidentate, lvs. obovate .. «+ (5) Spathulatus. 
” 1. L. squarrosus (DC. 1.c. 167); densely white-woolly, many stem- 
med, with rosulate radical leaves ; stems ascending, simple or branched, 
densely leafy below, more laxly upwards ; leaves obovate-oblong, acute, or 
obtuse, immersedly 3-nerved; heads crowded, many together in densely- 
woolly tufts, subtended by several floral-leaves, heterogamous; inner 
inv. scales taper-pointed, strongly reflexed, white, rosy, or deep purple. 
Gnaph. squarrosum, Linn. Sp. 1197. Th.! Cap.656. Jacq. Fragm. t. 3. 
Sf. 4. Leontonyx tomentosus, Cass.—Less. ! Syn. p. 325. Also L. tinctus, 
DC.! 1. c. L. coloratus 8. contractus, Less. ! Syn. 327. Gnaph, tinctum, 
Thunb.! Cap. 656. 
Var. £. diseretus; heads separate, shortly pedicelled, in dense cymules (not tufts). 
