Gorteria. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 469 
CXXXIL HETEROLEPIS, Cass. 
Heads radiate; ray-fl. female, ligulate; dise-fl. 5-toothed, perfect. 
Recept. honeycombed, villous in the middle. Inv. se. free, in 2-3 rows, 
the outer lanceolate-acuminate, dorsally woolly; inner longer, oval, 
with a membranous, fringed apex. Ray-flower with a very minute, 
cirrhiform inner lobe; the outer ample, 4-toothed. Filaments smooth. 
Anthers shortly tailed. Style smooth, bifid; more deeply in the ray-fl. 
Achenes very villous, oblong. Pappus of 15-20 thick, closely barbed, 
unequal bristles, in two rows; the 10 inner ones longer. DC. Prodr. 
6, 496. 
Suffrutices ; the younger branches woolly. Leaves crowded, sessile, linear, rigid, 
glabrous above, tomentose beneath, the margins revolute. Heads terminal, solitary. 
Cor. yellow. Name from erepos, different, and Aems, a scale; the inv. is of two 
sorts of scales. 
Leaves with strongly revolute margins: 
Lys. crowded nearly to the tops of the branches ; 
PONUnG. ANONG os se se .. - (1). decipiens. 
Lys. laxly set; pedunc. very long (6-10 inches)... (2) peduncularis. 
Leaves quite flat, midnerved, glutinous na esis (3) miitis. 
1. H. decipiens (Cass.); branches crowded with leaves nearly to the 
summit, ending in a short peduncle ; leaves linear with revolute margins, 
subentire or here and there denticulate. Less. Syn. 58. DC. 1. ¢. 497. 
Oedera aliena, Linn. f. Jacq. Schoenbr.t. 154. Leyssera arctotoides, Th. ! 
Cap. 691. 
Has. In the Karroo, Thunb.! Gordon’s Slakte, Mundt. Tulbagh’s K1., French 
Hoek, and in Hott. Holl, £.Z./ Winterhoeksberg, Pappe! Stellenbosch Mt., W.H.H. 
Gr. Howhoek, Zey.! 3017, (977). (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched, densely leafy bush, 1-2-ft. high. Leaves 1-1} in. long, 1 line 
wide, acute, the younger canous, older glabrate. Pedune. scabrous, 4-3 in. long. 
Heads large and showy; rays many, long, bright golden yellow. 
2. H. peduncularis (DC.! 1. c. 497); branches leafy below, ending in 
very long peduncles; leaves laxly set, linear, with revolute margins, 
quite entire. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 6828. Zwellendam, £.é Z.! Mundt.! Buffeljagds R., Zey.! 
3300. Genadendahl, Dr. Prior! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A half shrub, variably tomentose, 1-1} feet high. Leaves much less closely set 
than in H. decipiens, but otherwise similar. Pedunc. 6-10 in. long, scabrous. 
8. H. mitis (DC.! 1c. 497); branches leafy nearly to the summit ; 
leaves linear, flat, nerved, viscidulous. Gorteria mitis, Burm. Prodr. 
p. 28, fide DC. Burm. Afr. t. 54, f. 2. 
Has. Zondags R. & Zuureberg, Drege. (Herb. Sond.) — : 
Leaves crowded, quite flat! Heads smaller than in H. decipiens, with shorter rays, 
and less membr. inner inv. sc. Outer pappus very short. 
CXXXIII. GORTERIA, Gaertn. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous; ray-fi. ligulate, neuter ; disc-jl. very 
sharply 5-toothed, some of the marginal ones fertile, having a bifid 
style and abortive stamens ; the central ones sterile, with simple style 
and perfect stamens. nv. sc. pluriseriate, concrete into an urceolate, at 
