272 composit® (Harv.) [Lachnospermum. 
ous; heads cylindrical, 3-fl., sessile, in few-headed, pedunculate tufts 
disposed in a branching, close corymb ; invol. cylindrical, thinly cob- 
webbed externally, all the scales obtuse, spathulate, the outer with 
short, the inner with oblong, pluriseriate, milk-white tips; pappus 
acute. Less./ Syn. 330. DC. l.c. 253. Gnaph. fasciculatum, Thunb. ! 
Cap. 645. Also M. Eckloniana, DC. ! 1. ¢. 
Has. About Capetown and in the Western Districts. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Much branched and twiggy. Leaves 1-3 lines long, crowded, fascicled. Heads 
3 lines long, distinct, but close-lying in 3~5-headed tufts, each tuft on a short, com- 
mon peduncle. Inv. scales milk-white. I cannot see by what character I. Ecklo- 
niana, DC.! which I have seen in Herb. Sond., differs from a common form of M. 
fasciculata. 
Doubtful Species. ; 
M. octoflora (DC. 1. c. 250); “ branches appressedly pubescent; lvs. 
linear, mucronate, glabrous at back, often gemmuliferous ; heads ovate- 
cylindrical, pedicellate, 8-flowered, in a simple corymb ; outer invol. 
scales appressed, acute, reddish ; inner few, obtuse, scarcely exserted.” 
DC. 1.2 
Has. Berg River, Drege. (But a specimen in Hb. Sond., sent by Drege as “ M. 
octoflora,” differs in no respect from J. awrea.) 
M. distans (DC. 1. c. 254); “leaves linear, acute, twisted, glabrous 
outside, distant, not gemmuliferous; heads few at the ends of the 
branches, subumbellate ; iny. terete, imbricate, outer scales sub-tomen- 
tose, mucronate, inner white, acuminate.” DC.l.c. Gn. distans, Schrank. 
Act. Acad. Morac. 8, p. 160. Pee 
LXXXV. LACHNOSPERMUM, Willd. 
Heads many-fl., homogamous, discoid. Jnv. turbinate ; the scales 
closely imbricate in many rows, with subpungent tips. Recept. with a 
few marginal pale. Cor. tubular, 5-toothed. Style-branches pencilled 
at the summit. Achenes oblong, angular, the younger ones villous at 
the angles, the full grown densely hairy. Pappus biseriate, of slender, 
serrulated bristles, rather longer than the corolla. DC. Prodr. 6, 255: 
A slender, straggling shrub, with spreading, canous, subsimple branches, leafy to 
the summit. Leaves minute, linear-terete, obtuse or mucronate, slightly twisted, 
with axillary leaf-tufts ; involute, as in Metalasie. Heads solitary, or 3-5 in a corymb 
on laxly leafy peduncles. Invol. 4~5 lines long, 3 lines wide, woolly, bristling with 
the slender, bristle-tips of the outer scales: inner scales linear; acute. Name from 
Aaxvyes, woolly, and omepya, a seed. 
1. L. ericoides, (Willd.); Zess./ Syn. 342. DC.! 1. c.255. Stahelina 
fasciculata, Th.! Cap. 628. Serratula fasciculata, Poir. Carpholoma 
rigidum, Don. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Mundt.! Burchell. Namaqualand, Ecklon. K1, Draken- 
stein, Drege! (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
diffuse, 1-2 ft. long or more. _Leaves 1-1} line long. Whole plant thinly 
canous. 
LXXXVI. PACHYRHYNCHUS, DC. 
Heads about 10-fi., homogamous, all the fl. 5-toothed, perfect. Recept. 
