a ee 
Perotriche.} COMPOSIT& (Hary.) 285 
Cede Dre and’ Wynberg ; and Vanstaadens R., Uitenhage, Drege! Ecklon! 
erb. D. 
How does this differ from a common form of S. cinerea ? 
S.? adpressa (DC. 1. c.); “stem erect, much-branched; leaves ses-— 
sile, very minute, strictly adpressed, and with the twigs cobwebbed ; 
heads in the upper axils, solitary, and thus spicate, erect.” Seriphium ? 
adpressum, DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 7573. (Perfect inflorescence unknown ; therefore doubtful.) 
S. filaginea (Sch. Bip.); “leaves linear-involute, mucronulate, sub- 
erect, the younger cobwebby beneath, at length glabrous; axils nude; 
heads crowded in a subglobose glomerule ; outer inv. scales very short, 
woolly ; inner scarious, elongate, very much acuminate, brownish- 
purple. Flowers not seen.” Seriphium filagineum, DC. l. c. 263. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 7764. (Unknown to us.) 
Specimens distributed by Drege under this name appear to me to be monstrosities 
of some species, with diseased inflorescence. 
XCIII. PEROTRICHE, Cass. 
Heads one-fl., the fl. tubular, 5-toothed, perfect. Recept. naked. Jnv. 
scales oblong, imbricated, chaffy, appressed. Achenes without pappus, 
beakless, glabrous, sessile, cylindrical. Style-branches pencilled at the 
apex only. DC. Prodr, 6. 264. 
A small shrub with the aspect of Stoebe perotrichoides ; differing generically from 
Stoebe, by the want of pappus. Name, mnpos, wanting, and Opig, a hair ; without 
pappus. 
1. P. tortilis (Cass.); Less. Syn. 353. DC.! 1. c. 264. Gymnachena 
bruniades, Reich. in Sieb. Fl. Cap. 23. 
Has. Cape Flats, in heathy places; Bergius, Ecklon, Pappe, W.H. H. (Herb. 
Hk., D., Sd.) 
About 8-12 inches high, much-branched, densely leafy ; the fl. branches virgate, 
ending in a globose glomerule of many heads. Leaves linear involute, aristate- 
mucronate, spirally twisted, cobwebbed, becoming glabrous. Flowers purple. This 
plant is so very similar in aspect to Stoebe ichoides, that it may easily be mis- 
taken for it, unless the achenes be examined ! 
XCIV. TRICHOGYNE, Less. 
Heads several-fl., moneecious, all the fi. tubular; the female marginal, 
1-6, among the innermost inv. scales or paleze ; male numerous, central, 
5-toothed, tapering at base. Recept. bearing marginal palez, naked in 
the centre. Jnv. scales loosely imbricate in several rows. Style in 
the male-fl. simple, dilated and downy at the apex; in the female bifid, 
Pappus none in the female fi.; in the males of slender bristles plumose 
at top, uniseriate. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 264. 
Depressed, branching, densely leafy suffrutices. Leaves minute, linear, often in- 
volute, woolly on their upper, glabrate on the lower surface, often fascicled. Name 
from Opt, a hair, and yun, a female ; the female fi. are slender, like hairs. 
Stems shrubby, much branched :— 
Inv. scales all dry and membranous : 
Heads in terminal tufts. Lvs. erect. Inner inv. 
DOMIGE WHI... oes ec A Se ee os (1) decumbens, 
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