| Cryptostemma.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 675 
end. Achenes of the ray abortive, of ba disk oblong, densely enveloped in 
an intricate wool. Pappus of about 6 t 8 short, lanceol: ite scales concealed 
in the wool.— Perennial with radical or Ken leaves, pinnatifid or pinnately 
vided. Scapes or peduncles single-headed. 
The genus consists of but two species, both South African, one of them the same a s the 
beten one. It is very closely allied to Arctotis, scarce! y differing except in the Gage 
| C. calendulacea, R. Br.; DC. Prod. vi. 495. A perennial usually 
SS, es almost sterüless, the leafy prostrate stems sometimes however 
lengthening out especially under cultivation. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, deeply 
E o or pinnately divided into oblong or lanceolate acutely toothed or 
lobed segments, glabrous or scabrous above, cottony-white underneath. 
: M ¢toria. Common about SE en the whole pastures strewed with its woolly 
achenes like pellets in autumn, Adam 
Tasmania. Introduced about H Hoba n, Gun 
S. ëmmer = Very common on faddi get Geier Se F. Mue 
L Ww. tralia. Very abundant abont Perth, where it oceurs enee? with double 
) En. zeg ray-florets peeing divided or much SE in number, Preiss, n. 1 
feris clandestina, Less. ; Harv. and n Fl. Cap. iii. 428." An Kies EE 
slightly pubescent annual of ] to 2 ft. Leavy s oblong or Kette the kie ones petiolate 
| md ener toed, the upper ones srhall distant sessile or stem-clasping. Flower-heads all 
Yodding at the ends s the branch Involueral bracts narrow, all equal in a single row 
Recepta 
sea us centres and scarious margin tacles without scales. Ray-floret 
male, the 1 scarcely exceeding the involucre. - tubular, herma 
peti, pe sterile. Aden of the ray with uin produced into ign enee 
Pappus n Disk-achenes abortive.— 7. atropurpurea, T n Bull. 
ngs. 
E Kos 212.—W. A ek, Drummond, 3rd “Coll n. 181. Prolab "kradaned 
ques opicinals, Linn. ; DO. Prod. vi. 451. An erect or dem —_ -branched 
HI of about 1 ft., green, pubesce ent and more or less glandular. eaves spathu- 
ate, upper ones lanceolate or ob ue ong, entire or slightly toothed, stem- kane at the base. 
lowe Wer-heads terminal. eck florets ligulate, female, much longer than t e involuere, of an 
Srange-yellow. Disk-flor cag — M but sterile. 3 re of Ze ray in 2 or 
3 rows, elongated rend incurved, the inner face s ; the margins of the o nes dilated 
Mitha ridge of tubercles or prickles Sa the ‘centre of the back.—A S, ës: n species 
Introduced E t Adelaide from when also, in Herb. E, Mulen, a ‘ingi specimen of 
6 arvensis, ecies or Vier distinguished. by i its much smaller tlower-heads and 
Smaller kna d the dent ones narrow and elongated, ihe: olo very much shorter and 
pe. | 
KR XI. Muris1ace®.—Leaves alternate. Flower-heads either hetero- 
"mous with radiating female florets or hom ogamous with tubular florets, 
"EI without scales. Anthers pointed or tailed at the base. Style usually 
üekened under the branches which are erect, truncate and often Á short as in 
Calendulacee, more rarely elongated and obtuse, almost as in Senecionide. 
