180 LXX. COMPOSIT®. 
43. LIPOTRICHE, R. Br. 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers in 1 row, female, broadly ligu- 
late, 3-toothed, externally pubescent; disk-flowers bisexual, 
tubular, 5-toothed. Involucre 2-3-seriate, loosely imbricate, 
the scales lanceolate, leafy. Receptacle convex, covered with 
flattish, acuminate leafy pale. Style-arms of the disk-flowers 
tipped with a hispid cone. Anthers dark-coloured. Achenes 
turbinate-prismatic, 3-4-angled, those of the disk subcom- 
pressed. Pappus of 8-10, short, rigid, unequal, deciduous, 
rough bristles.—F7. Cap. in. p. 183. 
L. Brownii, DC., is a coarse-growing, scabrous herb, with the aspect of 
Wedelia. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, the lower 3-lobed, upper hastate- 
lanceolate, 3-nerved, serrate. Peduncles 1-headed; flowers bright yellow. 
—Catfraria and Natal. 
44, SPILANTHES, Jacq. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate or discoid; rays ligulate, fe- 
male, often short, 1-seriate ; disk-flowers tubular, 4-5-toothed. 
Tnvolucral scales in 2 rows, appressed, shorter than the disk, 
the outer scales green, inner submembranous, folded. Recep- 
tacle convex, covered with membranous palez, enwrapping 
the flowers. Style-arms of disk-flowers truncate and pencilled. 
Anthers blackish. Achenes of disk compressed, beakless, 
often ciliate at the sides or naked; of the ray, 3-cornered or 
subcompressed. Pappus 0.— #7. Cap. ii. p. 138. 
Annuals or perennials, mostly tropical. Leaves opposite, petioled, or 
ovate or ovato-lanceolate, coarsely toothed. Peduncles 1-headed; flowers 
yellow.—S. Africana, DC., grows near Natal. 
SuBTRIBE 2. HELENIE®. (Gen. 45-49.) 
45, CADISCUS, E. Mey. 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers broadly ligulate, female, in one 
row ; disk-flowers bell-shaped, 5-toothed, fertile or the inner 
sterile. Involucral scales 8-10, in a single row, concrete into 
an 8-10-toothed, cup-like involucre. Receptacle honeyeombed, 
convex. Anthers not tailed, with a large apical scale. Style- 
arms truncate, pencilled at apex. Fertile achenes terete, 
ribbed and furrowed, slightly beaked, villous at base, pubes- 
cent; sterile linear, smooth. Pappus of the fertile flower of 
10-12 rigid, subulate-acuminate, persistent scales ; of the fer- 
tile, of more slender bristles-—/7. Cap. iii. p. 184. 
C. aquaticus, K. M., is a glabrous aquatic, found near Groenekloof and 
Saldanha Bay. Stems long and weak, distantly branched, rooting at the 
nodes or floating. Leaves alternate, clasping, entire ; peduncles opposite 
the leaves, short, 1-headed ; flowers white or yellowish. 
