178 LXX. COMPOSIT®. 
toothed bristles, few in the ray-flower, copious in the disk- 
flower.— Fl. Cap. iii. p. 123. 
C. Eckloniana, DC., is a much-branched undershrub, with alternate, ob- 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire leaves, white underneath, glabrous and 1-nerved 
above. Heads solitary, terminal. Corolla yellow.—Grows in Uitenhage. 
Unknown to me. 
37. MINUROTHAMNUS, DC. 
Heads many-flowered ; ray-flowers ligulate, female, in 1 
row; disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, hermaphrodite. Invo- 
lucral scales 2-seriate, the outer shorter, acuminate, inner 
longer, obtuse, membrane-edged. Filaments glabrous; an- 
thers shortly tailed. Style 3. fid, with spreading branches. 
Achenes obovate ?, woolly. Pappus in 2 rows, of about 20 
straight, yellow, toothed bristles, the outer 10 shorter, the 
inner more rigid.—/U. Cap. iu. p. 124, 
M. phagnaloides, DC., found by Ecklon in Caledon, is said to have the 
habit of Cypselodontia. Unknown to me. 
38. GEIGERIA, Griessl. 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, igulate; disk- 
flowers tubular, perfect, 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, erect, 
externally glandular-scabrid. Involucre closely imbricate, the 
outer scales mostly leaf-tipped, the inner horny, acute or acu- 
minate. Receptacle convex, piloso- or paleaceo-fimbrilliferous. 
Anthers tailed. Style-branches of the disk-flowers linear-lan- 
ceolate, flattened. Achenes subtrigonous, hairy or pilose, 
beakless, narrowed to the base. Pappus 2-seriate, of 10-16 
scales, either all aristate or the outer ones blunt, or all of them 
toothed.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 124. 
Glabrous or scabrous undershrubs, with rigid leafy stems or nearly stem- 
less. Leaves alternate, linear or subulate, 1-nerved, quite entire or toothed, 
gland-dotted on each side of the rib. Heads sessile, either terminal or in 
the forks, or pseudo-lateral on lengthening branches. Flowers yellow.— 
9 species (1 undescribed), either Eastern or near or beyond the Eastern 
and North-Eastern frontiers. 
TRIBE 4. SENECIONIDED. 
SuprriBe 1. HeniantuEs. (Gen. 39-44.) 
39. ECLIPTA, Linn. 
Heads radiate; ray-flowers in few rows, female, short and 
narrow-ligulate ; disk-flowers tubular,4-toothed, hermaphrodite. 
Involuere 2-ser iate, of 10-12 ovato- lanceolate, acuminate scales. 
Receptacle plano-convex, with linear-filiform palez, ciliate at 
the apex, and equalling the acheres. Style-arms in the 
