LXX. COMPOSIT®. es 
26. CONYZA, Less. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous ; marginal flowers fe- 
male, in many rows, with very slender, filiform, truncate or 
2-3-toothed corollas; central flowers few, male, 5-toothed. 
Receptacle flat or convex, nude or fimbrilliferous. Involu- 
eral scales in many rows. Anthers without tails. Achenes 
flat, mostly glabrous. Pappus 1-seriate, of slender, scarcely 
rough bristles.—F7. Cap. ui. p. 111. 
Herbs or halfshrubs. Leaves various, often toothed or incised. Heads 
peduneled corymbose or panicled. Flowers yellow. Pappus reddish.— 
9 Cape species, dispersed. 
27. DICHROCEPHALA, DC. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous, discoid ; marginal 
flowers female, in many rows, slender, filiform, 3—4-toothed ; 
central few, male, bell-shaped, 4-toothed. Receptacle nude, 
conical. Involucre expanded, nearly 1-seriate ; scales ovate, 
subequal. Style included. Achenes compressed, beakless, 
the marginal without pappus, central each with 1-2 bristles — 
Fl, Cap. iii. p. 114. 
Annual weeds of warm countries, with alternate, toothed or lyrate leaves, 
and globose, small, racemose or panicled heads.—D. latifolia, DC., occurs 
in the Hastern district and at Natal. 
28. SPH HRANTHUS, Vaill. 
Heads crowded into a globose glomerule (or compound 
head), surrounded by a common involucre; each partial head 
sessile in the axil of a bract, on a convex, common receptacle. 
Partial heads few-flowered, moneecious, all the flowers tubular ; 
female filiform, 3-toothed ; male swollen, 5-toothed. Partial 
receptacle nude. Partial involucre of several, close-pressed, 
imbricate scales. Anthers tailless. Pappus 0.—Fl. Cap. i. 
p. 115. 
Herbs of hot countries. Leaves decurrent, serrate or entire.—S, pedun- 
cularis, DC., occurs in Caffraria and at Natal. Flowers purplish. 
Suprrise 3. TARCHONANTHE®, (Gen. 29-30.) 
29. BRACHYLANA, R. Br. 
Heads many-flowered, dicecious. Receptacle nude. Invo- 
lucral scales imbricated, dry,-shorter than the flowers. Co- 
rolla tubular, unequally 5-toothed.—Male: Anthers tailed at 
base, connate, exserted. Style filiform, simple. Ovary hispid, 
abortive, with few pappus-bristles—Female: Anthers abor- 
tive, separate. Style 2-fid, the arms short and broad. Achenes 
