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Much-branched, twiggy, closely leafy, silky, small shrubs. Leaves alter- 
nate, crowded, linear, quite entire, 1-nerved, with reflexed margins. Heads 
subsessile or shortly pedicelled, terminal or in leafy racemes. Rays white. 
Very near Lidbeckia in floral structure, but extremely different in aspect.— 
2 species, in Swellendam and George. 
54. GAMOLEPIS, Less. 
Heads radiate; rays ligulate, female; disk-flowers tubular, 
5-toothed, bisexual, Spee Involucral scales 1-seriate, con- 
nate into a cup for + or 3 their length, or more. Receptacle 
convex, nude or slightly honeycombed. Style-arms cone- 
tipped. Achenes glabrous, wingless, without pappus, with a 
terminal areole.—Fi. Cap. iii. p. 155. | 
Small shrubs or herbs, mostly glabrous. Leaves pinnatisect or entire, 
alternate. Peduncles 1-headed ; flowers yellow.—12 species (1 undescribed), 
dispersed. 
55. STEIRODISCUS, Less. 
Heads radiate; rays female, ligulate ; disk-flowers bisexual 
but sterile, terete, 5-toothed. Involucre campanulate, 1-se- 
riate. Receptacle nude. Ovaries of disk limear, glabrous, 
sterile. Style-arms cone- ee Achenes of ray obovoid, 
silky.—F1. Cap. ii. 159. 
Small annuals. Leaves pinnate-parted, the lobes linear-filiform. Heads 
terminal, solitary, yellow.—2 species, both Western. 
56. IOCASTE, E. Mey. 
Heads radiate; ray-flowers 1—2-seriate, ligulate, female ; disk- 
flowers 12-15, tubular, 5-toothed. Involucre 2-3-seriate, imbri- 
cate, the inner scales scarious-tipped. Receptacle nude. Style- 
arms truncate. Anthers not tailed. Achenes terete, with 
8-10 obtuse, raised striz, glandularly scabrid, without pappus, 
truncate.— FT. Cap. ii. p. 160. Oligoglossa, DC. Pr. vi. p. 76. 
A glabrous, many-stemmed undershrub, corymbose above. Leaves linear- 
subulate, erect, entire, keeled, pungent; heads pedicelled, yellow.—North- 
Eastern and Hastern districts. 
57? PHYMASPERMUM, Less. 
Heads radiate; rays of two kinds, some ligulate, some fili- 
form; disk-flowers bisexual, terete, 5-toothed. Involuere cam- 
panulate, imbricated. Receptacle nude, flat. Ovary wing- 
less, without pappus, papillose-canescent, elliptical. Style- 
arms truncate.— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 160. 
P. junceum, Less., a very little-known plant, is a much-branched shrub, 
with scattered, sessile, linear, keeled, very entire leayes, and solitary, small, 
terminal heads. 
