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33. INULA, Gertn. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous ; ray-flowers in 1 row, 
female, mostly ligulate, rarely subtubular, 5-fid; disk-flowers 
perfect, tubular, 5-toothed. Involucre imbricate. Receptacle 
nude. Anthers tailed. Achenes subterete or 4-angled. 
Pappus 1-seriate, of rough bristles.— #1. Cap. iui. p. 121. 
A large genus, chiefly European and Asiatic—JZ. Africana, Lam., a 
little-known plant, is the only species. 
34. PULICARIA, Cass. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous ; ray-flowers female, 1- 
seriate, ligulate (in P. Capensis very short); disk-flowers tu- 
bular, 5-toothed. Involucre laxly imbricate, in few rows; 
scales linear. Receptacle nude, areolate, flattish. Achenes 
beakless, downy, terete. Pappus in 2 rows, the outer very 
short, crown-like, toothed ; inner of 10-20 rough bristles.— #7. 
Cap. iii. p. 121. 
Herbs, chiefly European, erect, villous, branched. Cauline leaves clasp- 
ing at base, entire or toothed. Peduncles 1-headed ; flowers yellow.—P. 
Capensis, DC., found throughout the colony, varies in being thinly or 
densely pubescent. 
35. PEGOLETTIA, Cass. 
Heads many-flowered, homogamous. Involucre imbricate 
in few rows, shorter than the flowers; scales acute. Re- 
ceptacle nude, dotted, flat. Corolla tubular, 5-fid, regular or 
subirregular. Anthers 2-tailed at base. Achenes cylindrical, 
rib striate, beakless. Pappus in 2 or 3 rows, the inner of 
long, rigid, straight, serrate (rarely plumose) bristles; the 
outer much shorter, either of flat, entire or toothed, unequal 
scales, or of bristles nearly similar to those of the inner pap- 
pus.— 7. Cap. iui. p. 122. 
Small, rigid halfshrubs, resembling Pleronie. Leaves alternate, dotted, 
elliptical or linear. Heads ending the branches, yellow.—6 South African 
species, dispersed. 
36. CYPSELODONTIA, DC. 
Heads many-flowered ; ray-flowers 1-seriate, ligulate, neuter; 
disk-flowers deeply 5-fid, hermaphrodite. Involucre imbricate 
in several rows, the scales linear, outer squarrose. Receptacle 
honeycombed, the cells toothed. Filaments short, hairy ; an- 
thers with a prolonged point, tailed. Style of the disk-flower 
with obtuse, nearly cohering lobes, downy at back near the 
summit. Ray-achenes abortive, glabrous, with a basal tuft of 
hair ; of disk, obovate, very villous. Pappus with thick, white, 
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