Amphidowa. | COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 263 
white-woolly; branches threadlike, flexuous ; leaves scattered, obovate, 
tapering much at base, acute or mucronate; heads tufted at the ends of 
the branches, or subsessile or pedicelled, in the upper axils; iny. cylin- 
drical, few-fl., woolly at base, the inner scales oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 
glabrous; female fl. 15-16, perfect 2-3. 
Has. Cape, Drege! Steen Tulbagh . P Zey. 
2887. (Heb D., Hk.) ee 
Root fibrous, Stems 3-6 inches high, irregularly branched. Leaves nearly $ inch 
long, 2-3 lines wide. Heads about 20 fl., very few hermaphrodite flowers. A specimen 
in Hb. Hook. from Drege, marked “Gn. micranthum, Th.? a.” belongs to this species. 
10. G. confine (Harv.); annual, slender, erect, many stemmed, branch- 
ing, loosely white-woolly; branches corymbose upwards; leaves scattered, 
spathulate-obovate, tapering much at base, acute, mucronulate; heads 
tufted at the ends of the branches, or axillary, 40-50-fl.; inv. spreading, 
the scales pluriseriate, loosely imbricate, horn-coloured, hyaline, lanceo- 
late, acute; fem. fl. numerous. 
Has. Linde, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
Very like G. parvulum, but with different inv. scales and more flowers in the head. 
Stems 2-3 inches high, divided near the base, ramulous near the summit. Heads 
copious. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 1-2 lines wide. 
Doubtful Species, 
G. lasiocaulon (Link, Enum. h, her. 2, 317); “tomentose; leaves 
linear, acute, curved; headsfasiculate-corymbose, peduncled; inv. scales 
white, acute, shrubby. DC.7.¢.p.237, No. 102. 
G.? cicatrisatum (Vahl.); “leaves linear-lanceolate, keeled; corymb 
compound, dense.” DC. 1.¢c.p. 237, No. ror. Genus and habitat alike 
uncertain.) 
G.? acuminatum (Link); “shrubby ; branches pubescent ; leaves 
linear lanceolate, with very long sharp points, glabrous above, thinly 
tomentose beneath ; heads corymbose, cylindrical ; inv. scales very ob- 
tuse.” DC.i.c.236,No.g0. (Doubtful whether a Cape or an Australian 
species ; its genus also uncertain !) 
LXXXI. AMPHIDOXA, DC. ; 
Heads many-fi., heterogamous, discoid, the marginal fl. very slender, 
female, numerous (in several rows) ; disc fl. perfect. Recept. flat, naked. 
Inv. imbricate, campanulate, the outer scales close-pressed, inner longer, 
radiating. Achenes oblong, granulated, those of the marginal fi. without 
pappus; of the dise with few (5-6) caducous bristles, barbellate at the 
apex only. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 246. 
A singl ies, with the aspect of a small Helichrysum (such as H. declinatum) 
or of = Sisshalion, os rag both genera by the want of pappus to the 
inal flowers. Thename is compounded of aug:, rownd about, and Sofa, opinion ; 
because the affinities are various with several genera. 
1, A. gnaphaloides (DC. 1. c.). 
Has. Near Uitenhage, Ecklon / Port Elizabeth, Zey./ 2890, ex pte. (Herb. D., 
Hk., Sd. os é 
Dice divnicheat or trailing, turning up at the extremities, 8-12 inches long, 
