182 LXX. COMPOSIT@. 
in Sphenogyne) of 5 obovate, white, spiral scales, the inner of 
5 slender, white bristles.—FU. Cap. iu. p. 150. 
Herbs or suffrutices, with the habit of Sphenogyne.—10 species, dispersed. 
SuBrribE 3. ANTHEMIDER. (Gen. 50-75.) 
50. EUMORPHIA, DC. 
Heads radiate ; rays 1-seriate, female ; disk-flowers bisexual, 
5-toothed, dilated at base above the ovary. Involucre imbri- 
ae Receptacle convex, covered with pale, enclosing the 
flowers. Anthers without tails. Style-arms divergent, obtuse. 
Achenes glabrous, prismatic, 3-4-angled, without pappus.— 
— Fil. Cap. iii. p. 158 ; Harv. Thes. t. 70. 
E. Dregeana, DC., is a small, glabrous shrub, with opposite, imbricate, 
linear, very small leaves, and terminal, peduncled heads; rays white.— 
Grows on the Sneeuweberg. 
51. LASIOSPERMUM, Lag. 
Heads radiate ; rays female, ligulate, or minute and tubular ; 
disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales 
imbricated, shorter than the disk. Receptacle broad, bearing 
palez. Style-armstruncate. Achenes wingless, without pap- 
pus, the younger hairy, the old involved in very thick wool.— 
Fi. "Cap. up. 153. 
Glabrous herbs or undershrubs, with alternate, pinnatisect leaves, and long, 
’ 1-headed peduncles; rays, when present, white.—3 species, dispersed. 
52. LIDBECKIA, Berg. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate; rays 1-seriate, lgulate, 
neuter; disk-flowers tubular, bisexual, 4-toothed. Involucre 
2-3-seriate, the scales as long as the disk. Receptacle flattish, 
bearing a few filiform shreds. Style-arms truncate. Ovaries 
of ray “abortive. Achenes of disk fertile, wingless, glabrous, 
without pappus, longitudinally ribbed, crowned by : a cylin 
_ drical nectary.— FI. Cap. iii. p. 154. 
4. Undershrubs, with alternate, lobed or pinnatifid leaves, and 1-headed pe- 
duncles ; rays white. 
53. THAMNIOPHYLLUM, Harv. 
Heads few- or many-flowered, radiate ; rays ligulate, neuter ; 
disk-flowers bisexual, sharply 4- toothed.  Involucral scales 
linear, subbiseriate, loosely imbricate, herbaceous. Recep- 
tacle nude, narrow or conical. Anthers without tails. Style- 
arms truncate. Achenes oblong, subcompressed, glabrous, 
crowned with a hardened, conical style- base or nectary. Pap- 
pus 0. Fl. Cap. iu. p. 155 
