LXX. COMPOSITAE. Lal 
bracteolate. Corolla with a short tube and bell-shaped, 5-cleft 
limb. Achenes angular. Pappus of many rough bristles.— 
Fl. Cap. iii. p. 58. 
Mostly climbing herbs or shrubs of hot countries, chiefly American. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, mostly cordate or sagittate. Heads corymbose ; 
corolla pale.—2 Cape species, both Eastern. 
Trise 38. AsTEROIDER. (Gen. 11-38.) 
Susprrise AsTeREm. (Gen. 11-24.) 
11. ALCIOPE, DC. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate; ray-flowers ligulate, 1-seriate, 
female; disk-flowers 5-cleft, complete. Receptacle nude. In- 
volucral scales imbricate, linear, appressed. Style of disk- 
flowers deeply 2-fid, its arms linear, divergent, semiterete, 
obtuse, dorsally-puberulous. Achenes linear-oblong, angular, 
subeompressed, pubescent. Pappus of slender, rough bristles 
in many rows, deciduous.— Fl. Cap. iii. p. 60. 
Branching, erect, South African undershrubs. Stems clothed with close, 
white wool. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or toothed, coriaceous, woolly 
beneath. Heads large, ending long branches.—2 species, both Western. 
12. AMELLUS, Cass. 
Heads many-flowered, mostly radiate ; rays 1-seriate, female 
and fertile; disk-flowers 5-toothed. Receptacle bearing pale 
between the flowers. Involucral scales imbricate, rigid, the 
inner like the palee. Achenes wedge-shaped, compressed, 
those of the ray somewhat 4-angled, of the disk smooth, rough- 
edged. Pappus of ray of a few; short, unequal scales; of disk 
double, the outer similar to that of the ray, the inner of 4-5 
scabrous, deciduous bristles —//. Cap. ui. p. 61. 
Small South African annuals or rigid perennials. Lower leaves opposite, 
upper alternate, oblong, entire or few-toothed. Heads terminal ; rays blue ; 
disk yellow.—8 species, dispersed. 
13. MAIREA, DC. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate; rays female and fertile; 
disk-flowers 5-toothed, fertile or sterile. Receptacles nude. 
Involucre subimbricate. Anthers simple at base. Achenes 
plano-compressed. Pappus in 1 row, uniform, of several 
feathered (plumose) bristles—#7. Cap. iu. p. 64. 
South African perennials or small shrubs, of various habit. Leaves 
alternate. Peduncle 1-headed or rarely corymbose. Disk yellow; rays 
purple blue or white ; very rarely yellow.—10 species, dispersed. 
