1-2(5 



Helenieae 



Leaves opposite. 



Involucral bracts in more than 1 series. 44. JAUMEA. 



Involucral bracts in 1 series. 



Braots distinct. 47. Baeria. 



Bracts united into a toothed cup. 48. Lasthesia. 



Leaves alternate. 

 Kays present. 



Raj s with toothed appendages opposite the ligules. 



Rays unappendaged. 

 Bracts of the involucre erect. 



Herbage pubescent and viscid-glandular. 

 Bracts equal, in 1-2 series. 

 Bracts imbricated, in 2-3 series. 

 Herbage more or less floccose-woolly. 

 Perennial or suffrutescent plants. 

 Low annuals. 

 Outer bracts foliaceous, spreading. 

 Bracts reflexed. 

 Rays warn ing. 



Bracts 5-8; herbage viscid: heads small. 

 Bracts more numerous; heads middle sized. 



19, MoNOLOPIA. 



44. JAUMEA Pers. 



Succulent and glabrous perennial herbs, with opposite 

 entire subterete fleshy leaves, and solitary terminal 

 short-pedunoled middle-sized heads of yellow flowers. 

 Involucre cy lindraceous-canipanulat e. its bracts broad 

 and imbricated, the outermost short and fleshy. Rays 

 pistillate, fertile. Receptacle naked, conical. Disk- 

 flowers yellow. Style-branches papillose or hairy. 

 Achenes 10-nerved. Pappus none. 



1. J. carnosa (Less.) Gray. Stems rather slender, prostrate, 

 many from fleshy crown of the tap-root, mostly simple, 1-2 dm. 

 long, rooting at the nodes; leaves 1.5-2.5 cm. lomr; heads ahout 

 l cm. high; rays about 6, linear, not surpassing the disk; achenes 

 glabrous. 



Common in salt marshes along the coast. April-October. 



45. VENEGASIA DC. 



Stout perennial leafy branching herbs with scattered 

 large and showy heads of yellow flowers. [nvolucre 



