446 COMPOSITH (Harv.) [ Xenismia. 
subterete, the younger angular ; leaves sessile, erect, oblong-linear, ta- 
pering at base, mucronate, quite entire, 1-nerved, on each side (as well 
as the branches) silky with short, close-pressed hairs ; branches nude 
at the apex, r-headed; invol. sc. linear-lanceolate, acute ; /1. and fruit 
unknown.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Nieuweveldsbergen, near Beaufort, Drege. (Herb. Sd.) 
0. subcanescens (DC. 1. c. 464); “suffruticose, erect, branched ; twigs, 
pedicels, and involucres, cobweb-woolly ; leaves lanceolate, tapering at 
base, subpetiolate, acute, here and there subdentate or entire, 1-nerved, 
glabrous; heads at the ends of the branches solitary, subcernuous; inv. 
scales ovate, membr.-edged; achenes obovate-oblong, smooth, scarcely 
angular at base.” DC. l. c 
Has. Karroo, Drege, 
Q. scabridum (DC. 1. c. 466); “suffruticose, unarmed, ascending ; 
branches angular below, glabrous, leafy, produced into long, nude, 1- 
headed, subscabrid peduncles; leaves sessile, linear, here and there 
sharply toothed, glabrous ; invol. scales acuminate, dorsally scabrous, 
membr.-edged, subdenticulate ; achenes?” DO. l.c. (excl. syn. Th.) 
Has. Genadendahl, Ecklon. (Unknown to me.) 
(Species removed to other Genera.) 
0. connatum, DC. Tripteris amplexicaulis. 
O. cuspidatum, DC. Tripteris tomentosa. 
QO. fallax, Spr. Gamolepis munita. 
0. eines! Less. i glabrata. 
0 rophyllum, DC. Gamolepis brachypoda. 
0. incanum, Th. 
O. leiocarpum, DC, 
0. pachypteris 
O. pinnatipartitum 
0. scariosum, DC. 
0. tenuilobum, ex pie. 
0. tenuilobum, ex pie. 
0. tripteroideum, DC. 
QO. tridens, DC. ex pte. 
0. tridens, DC. ex pte. 
Tripteris incana. 
Gamolepedis sp. ? 
Tripteris pachypteris. 
Gamolepedis, sp. ? 
Tripteris flexuosa. 
Gamolepis trifurcata. 
Euryops punctatus. 
Tripteris spinescens. 
Tripteris spinescens. 
Tripteris leptoloba. 
HUN eee 
CXXIV.? XENISMIA, DC. 
“ Heads moncecious ; ray-fl. 5-7, female, ligulate ; disc-fl. 10-12, 
tubular, 5-toothed, male. Jnvol. scales oblong, in a single row. Lecept. 
without palex. Rays obtuse, ciliate at base. Anth.... Style»-- 
Achenes of disc none; of ray thick, glabrous, without pappus, every 
where bristled with thick, rigid thorns. Seed thickish, oblong, tapet- 
ing at base.” DC. Prodr. 5, p. 509. 
A somewhat downy, annual, many-s herbaceous t. Root slender. 
Leaves alternate, he! semis Pe re Pca t the point, ee at base. Heads 
small, solitary at the ends of the branches, pedicellate. Name, from gevpos, * 
