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46. G2DERA, Linn. 
Heads crowded in a bracteated cluster, cylindrical, few- 
flowered, radiate ; ray-flowers few, female, elongate toward the 
circumference of the cluster, short towards the centre; disk- 
flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales ap- 
presssed, scarious, in few rows.: Receptacle paleaceous. An- 
thers tipped with a truncate appendage, without tails. Style- 
arms truncate. Achenes wingless, angular-cylindrical, gla- 
brous. Pappus of several minute or longish, equal or unequal, 
semilanceolate scales, or crown-like, toothed.—#!. Cap. ui. p. 
134. 
Small, densely leafy, slightly branched, rigid, South African shrubs. 
Leaves opposite or ternate, or spirally imbricate, rough-edged. Head- 
clusters terminal, sessile; flowers yellow.—4 species, all Western. 
47. CALLILEPIS, DC. 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers in 1 row, ligulate, female; disk- 
flowers 5-toothed. Involucral scales imbricated, lanceolate, 
subequal. Receptacle flat, bearing dry, acuminate, rigid, 
clasping palew. Style-arms cone-tipped. Achenes glabrous, 
of the ray 3-angled, compressed ; of the disk flat. Pappus of 
2-3 scarious, acuminate, unequal, keeled scales, sometimes 
with 1-2 minute additional.—#7. Cap. ii. p. 186. 
Glabrous or pubescent, rigid undershrubs, with subsimple stems. Leaves 
rigid, undivided, the lowest opposite, the rest alternate, linear or lanceolate. 
fee terminal, solitary, many-flowered.—2 species, from Nataland Maga- 
isberg. 
48. SPHENOGYNE, R. Br. 
Heads radiate; ray-flowers in 1 row, neuter; disk-flowers 
tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Receptacle bearing scarious, trun- 
cate, flower-clasping palez. Involucral scales imbricate, the 
iner larger, amply membrane-tipped. Achenes girt at base 
with a circle of long, soft, silky hairs. Pappus of about 5, 
obovate, obtuse broad scales, spirally rolled together in the 
unopened flower, much enlarged in fruit, and milk-white.—F7. 
Cap. ii. p. 137. 
A large African genus of undershrubs and herbs, strong-scented, with 
gland-dotted, mostly pinnate-parted, rarely serrate or entire, alternate 
leaves. Peduncles mostly nude, 1-headed, rarely panicled. Flowers yellow ; 
the rays in many species coppery or dark brown on the under surface.— 
44: species, dispersed ; many very handsome. 
49. URSINIA, Gertn. 
Heads as in Sphenogyne, except,—l. Achenes obovate or 
pear-shaped, oblique, distinctly tapering at base, quite gla- 
brous, obscurely 5-ribbed. 2. Pappus 2-seriate, the outer (as 
