Phoenocoma. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 287 
4, T. laricifolia (Less.! Syn. 361) ; stem shrubby, erect or diffuse, 
the fl. branches long, curved, often spine-tipped, glabrate ; leaves linear- 
involute, keeled, slender, spreading, glabrate externally ; axils gemmi- 
ferous ; heads in long, subdistichous spikes, 5—fl. ; inv. cylindr., the 
outer scales leaf-like, linear, spreading, inner membranous, horn-colour, 
obtuse ; pappus flexuous, shortly plumose toward the apex. DC. 1. c. 
265. Seriph. laricifolium, Lam. Artemisia ambigua, Sieb.! Fl. No. 21. 
Stoebe disticha, fol. 2., Herb Thunb. ! ; 
Has. Dry ground round Capetown, Thunberg! Mundt.! Ecklon, Drege! Sieber ! 
(Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Very like 7. seriphioides, but more scrubby, often spinous ; with narrower and 
longer leaves and smaller fl. heads ; the outer inv. scales less close-pressed and longer. 
5. T. verticillata (Less.! Syn. 361) ; annual ; stems many from the 
crown, or solitary, erect, simple, densely leafy; leaves linear, elongate, 
with inflexed edges, much longer than the fl. heads; heads 3—5-toge- 
ther, sessile in the axils, 6—8-f1.; inv. scales membranous, glossy, acu- 
minate. DC.! 1.c. 265. Gnaph. verticillatum, Thunbd.! Cap. 648. [floga 
polycnemordes, Fenzl.! (fide Drege! ). 
Has. Throughout the colony, in moist, sandy places. (Herb, Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Root, slender, simple. Stems 1-6 inches high, 1 or many, erect, quite simple, 
closely leafy throughout. Leaves 4-1 inch long, 4 line wide. FI. heads in the 
axils of most of the leaves. 
6. T. paronychioides (DC.! 1. c. 266); annual; stems many from the 
crown, very short, diffuse, leafy at the summit only ; leaves linear, in- 
volute, elongate, glabrate without; heads in tufts at the ends of the 
stems, surrounded by many leaves ; invol. scales membranous, glossy, 
acuminate. 
Has Silverfontein, Kl. Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A minute annual; stems 4-1 inch long. Leaves 3 inch long, very slender, 
Invol. pale. : 
7. T. glomerata (Harv.); annual; stems several from the crown, 
very short, diffuse, sparsely leafy; leaves linear, flattish, or with sub- 
inflexed margins, woolly within, glabrate without, acute; heads in 
large, globose tufts at the ends of the stems, surrounded by many leaves; 
iny. scales membranous, rufous, glossy, acuminate. 
Has. Cape, Echl. § Zey.! (Herb. Sond.) 
Very like 7’. paronychioides (perhaps a mere variety), but with broader and much 
flatter leaves, and rufous involucres. Leaves 3-5 lines long, nearly a line to a line 
wide. Glomerules }—1 inch diameter. 
XCV. PHENOCOMA, Don. 
Heads very many-fl., moneecious, all the fi. tubular, 5-toothed ; mar- 
ginal female, in a single row ; central male, with abortive stigma. Je- 
cept. nude. Pappus in 1 row, of many rough bristles, equalling the 
corolla ; in the female fl. variously cohering, in the male club-shaped. 
DC. Prodr. 6, p. 266. 
A much-branched, robust, small shrub. Branches tomentose. Twigs very short, 
almost papilleform, closely imbricated with minute, scale-like, bluntly-ovate, glabrous 
leaves. Cauline leaves (subtending the twigs), acuminate, rigid, deciduous. Heads 
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