524 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [Arrowsmithia. 
rostrate. Terminal callus dilated. Pappus pluriseriate, of scabrous © 
bristles, falling off with the epigynous dise or annulus. DC. Prodr. 7. 
p. 38. 
Small S. Afr. herbs, with the aspect of Taraxacum or some other Cichoracea. 
Leaves radical, runcinate, glabrous or cobwebby-canescent. Scapes 1-headed, about 
equalling the leaves. 
Leaves glabrous on both sides... 20. 0. wee vee eee wee (1) Taraxaci, 
Leaves cobweb-cottony beneath ... ... ... 1... ... «1. «+ (2) leiocarpum. 
1. P. Taraxaci (Vahl.); leaves on both sides green, glabrous. sinu- 
ato-runcinate ; achenes densely papulose, shortly beaked; pappus not 
much longer than the inv. scales. DC./ 1. c. 38. Perd. semiflosculare, 
Linn. Thunb. ! Cap. 690. 
Has. Cape, Burman, Thunberg! Chamisso! Breede R., Drege! Hott. Holl., 
E. § Z.! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Leaves 2—4 in. long, short-petioled, rigid. Scape about as long as leaves. Pappus 
straw coloured. 
2. P. leiocarpum (DC.! 1. c. 39); leaves cobwebby-canescent be- 
neath, sinuato-runcinate, the lobes toothed ; achenes quite smooth, 
long beaked ; pappus much longer than the involucre, 
Has. Camiesberg, Drege! (Herb. })., Hk., Sd.) 
Rather larger than the preceding, with discoloured leaves, larger fl.-heads and 
very conspicuous, straw-coloured pappus. 
(Genus of uncertain affinity.) 
CXLVI. ARROWSMITHIA, DC. 
Heads many-fl., radiate ; ray. ligulate, female, in one row ; disc-/l. 
campanulate, 5-toothed, sterile ; all the corollas woolly on the tube. 
Inv. scales scarious, imbricate in several rows, the inner membrane- 
tipped. Recept. (fide DC.) “ flat, clothed with linear-setaceous fimbrils 
or pale.” Anthers cuspidate at base, produced into a very slender, 
partly adnate, bristle-shaped tail. Style thickened upwards, its branches 
short, convex-backed, obtuse, equally pubescent outside. Achenes with- 
out pappus, those of the ray compressed ; of the disc terete, glabrous, 
sterile. DC. Prodr. 7. p. 254. 
A rigid, small shrub or half-shrub, with the aspect of a Relhania. Branches 
terete, thinly cobwebbed, closely leafy to the summit. Leaves rigid, alternate, 
spreading or reflexed, sessile, half-clasping, lanceolate, pungent-mucronate, with 
recurved edges, quite entire, glabrous and glossy above, tomentose beneath, veinless. 
Heads terminal, solitary or in pairs, sessile ; fl. yellow. Named in honour of the 
well known geographer of Atlas celebrity. Its proper place in the system uncertain. 
1, A. styphelioides (DC.! 1. c. 254). Deless. Ic. Sel. 4, t. 100. 
Has. Katberg, Drege! (Herb. Hook., Sond.) 
Leaves 4-5 lines long, 1 line wide. Heads 6-7 lines long, § lines wide, cam- 
panulate. 
TRIBE VI.—CICHORACEE. 
Flower-heads semi-flosculose, that is, having al/ the flowers ligulate 
and bisexual. Style-branches long, subobtuse, filiform, equally pubes- 
cent on the outer surface-—Herbaceous plants, with alternate leaves, 
and milky, very bitter juice. (Gen. CXLVII.-CLIV.) 
