176 LXX. COMPOSITER. 
elandular-pubescent. Pappus double, of rough bristles— #7. 
Cap. ii. p. 115. 
Resinous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, shortly 
petioled, entire or toothed, glabrate above, often tomentose beyeath. Heads 
in branching racemes or panicles; flowers yellow.—5 or 6 species, dis- 
persed. 
30. TARCHONANTHUS, Linn. 
Heads dicecious, several- or few-flowered, or rarely 1- 
flowered. Inyolucre of male heads of 5 scales, connate to 
their middle; of the female, of many separate scales, in a 
doublerow. Receptaclehairy. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 
5-toothed, hairy and viscid without.— Male: Anthers exserted, 
connate, with long, bristle-shaped tails. Ovary abortive. 
Nectary (or epigynous disk) of large size, callous, hollow at 
top; style filiform.—Female: Stamens abortive. Nectary 0. 
Style exserted, 2-fid, the lobes revolute. Achene very woolly, 
without pappus.— 7. Cap. ili. p. 117. 
Resinous shrubs, as in the last genus, from which this is easily known 
by the want of pappus and the woolly achenes.—3 species, dispersed. 
Sustrise 4. InvLEm. (Gen. 31-38.) 
31. DENEKIA, Thunb. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous; marginal flowers in 
several rows, female equalling the disk, with 2-labiate corollas, 
the lips oval, equal, entire ; disk-flowers funnel-shaped, 5-fid, 
sterile: Receptacle nude, flat. Involucre 2-seriate. Anthers 
tailed. Style of disk-flower 2-fid, with flattened arms. Achenes 
oblong, sessile, beakless. Pappus of the marginal flower 0; 
of the disk-flowers, a single, slender, palmatifid scale, and a few 
small simple scales.—F. Cap. iii. p. 118. 
Herbs, with alternate, half-clasping, oblong or lanceolate, dentate leaves, 
and densely corymbulose or clustered small heads; flowers white.—2 spe- 
cies, both Eastern. 
32. BLUMEA, DC. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous ; marginal flowers in 
many rows, female, very slender, filiform; disk-flowers few, 
hermaphrodite, 5-toothed, scarcely dilated upwards. Recep- 
tacle flat, mostly nude. Involucre in few rows, subimbricate, 
the scales linear, acuminate. Anthers with slender tails. 
Achenes terete. Pappus 1-seriate, of many roughish bristles. 
— Fl. Cap. iii. p. 119. 
Herbs or halfshrubs, chiefly Asiatic, resembling Conyze. Leaves alter- 
nate, mostly villous. Heads panicled or corymbose ; flowers yellow or pur- 
plish.—4 South African species, all but one beyond the Eastern frontier. 
