Elytropappus.| COMPOSIT (Harv.) 273 
nude, flat. Jnv. at first terete-oblong, acuminate, with short, leafy, 
villous, accessory scales or bracts, the rest (or true scales) elongate, sca- 
rious, shining, glabrous, linear at length spreading. Achenes ovate, very 
villous, sessile, crowned with a glabrous, thick beak. Pappus pilose, 
the bristles scarcely rough, in several rows, longer than the corolla, 
DC. Prodr. 6,255. 
“A branching, erect suffrutex, all parts, except the heads, villous-tomentose and 
canescent. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong, callous-tipped, entire, crowded, 
sub-imbricate. Invol. straw colour.” DC.l.c. Name from zaxus, thick, and 
puyxos, a beak. 
1. P. xeranthemoides (DC. 1. c.) 
Has. Cape, Bruguiere, in Herb. L’Her. (Unknown to us.) 
LXXXVIL ELYTROPAPPUS, Cass. 
Heads few (2-8) flowered, homogamous. ecept. naked. Jnv. scales 
oblong, in few rows, imbricate, horny. Style-branches pencilled at the 
summit. Achenes beakless, sessile. Pappus of several, broad-based 
bristles, united in a ring at base, plumose at the summit, with a very 
minute, or rarely, a cupshaped, external rim. DC. Prodr. 6, 256. 
Much branched shrubs, growing in dry ground. Leaves minute or heathlike, 
mostly spirally twisted, more or less gladular and strongly scented. Heads subses- 
sile, in the axils of the upper leaves, solitary or few together, as if spicate-racemose. 
Name from eAvutpoy, an involucre, and warmos, pappus; alluding to the minute rim 
surrounding the pappus, which is probably a mere expansion of the epigynous disc. 
I. CyatHoparrus (Sch. B.) Heads in terminal, globose tufts. Outer-pappus cup- 
shaped, half as long as the ovary. Achenes wrinkled across :— 
Leaves 4-5 lines long, glabrous and glossy, gland-bristled ... (f) spinellosus. 
Lys, 1-2 lines long, woolly-villous, sparsely gland-bristled ... (2) cyathiformis. 
II. Enyrroparpus. Heads scattered along the branches, or aggregated in spikes. 
Outer-pappus ring-like, very short. Achenes longitudinally striate : 
Leaves linear or subulate. Inv. scales acute or acuminate : 
Leaves gland-bristled, glabrous or cobwebbed... ... ... (3) glandulosus, 
Lys. glandless, densely white-woolly wee gee cele tee 4) CRRORORNE. 
Leaves minute, appressed. 
Inv. seales very obtuse... 40. ss, 2s sys ose ee =“ (5) Bhinocerotis, 
Inv. scales acuminate... ... 66 Gilg A Sc en (© Oe preeas. 
1. E. spinellosus (Cass.) ; leaves linear, involute, mucronate, twisted, 
erecto-patent, rigid, on the outside glossy and sparsely setose; heads 
6-8-f1., several together in terminal tufts, surrounded by several floral 
leaves ; inv. scales acuminate ; ovaries scaberulous; outer pappus cup- 
shaped, entire. DC.l.c.256. E. spinulosus, Less.! Syn. 343. Gnapha- 
lium hispidum, Linn. Th.! Cap. 645. Metalasia hispida, Don. 
Has. Bockland, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
About a foot high, erect, not much branched, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
closely set, erecto-patent, 4-5 lines long, pungent, most of them, but especially the 
upper ones, spri with ing, gland-tipped bristles. Tufts of heads sessile, 
equalling the surrounding leaves. The cup-like rim of the pappus is about half as 
long as the ovary ; the pappus is beautifully feathered. This has quite a distinct 
habit; no recent collector seems to have met with it. 
2. E. cyathiformis (DC.!1.c. 257); leaves, especially the younger 
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