190 LXX. COMPOSIT®. 
Involucral scales in few rows, linear, enveloped in wool. 
Receptacle nude. Achenes narrow-obovate, angular, granu- 
lated. Pappus caducous, of few, very slender, hair-like bristles, 
smooth below, towards the apex beaded with swollen, roundish 
cells.—Fl. Cap. ii. p. 264; Thes. Cap. t. 149. 
E. Oculus-Cati, Less., the only species, is a small woolly annual, with 
wiry stems and obovate, scattered leaves. Only found by Thunberg ; the 
locality unknown. 
83. LASIOPOGON, Cass. 
Heads glomerated, many-flowered, heterogamous, the mar- 
ginal flowers filiform, female, in one or more rows; disk- 
flowers 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales in few rows, li- 
near, scarious, immersed in wool. Receptacles nude. Achenes 
obovate, subcompressed, glabrous. Pappus in 1 row, plumose, 
with very long plumes.— #7. Cap. ii. p. 264; Thes. Cap. t. 150. 
Small annuals, with the aspect of Zriosphera, but a very different pappus. 
—2 Cape species. 
84. METALASTIA, R. Br. 
Heads few- or many-flowered, homogamous ; all the flowers 
tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales closely imbri- 
eated, the outer shorter, often acute or acuminate, imner 
mostly dilated and coloured at apex, dry and rigid. Receptacles 
nude. Young achene tapering to each end, somewhat stipitate 
and beaked ; ripe achenes sessile. Pappus 1-seriate, of several 
rather broad, serrulate or clavate bristles.— #7. Cap. i. p. 265. 
Erect: or spreading, small shrubs. Branches closely leafy throughout. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, coriaceous, linear or oblong (small), with involute 
margins, concave and woolly above, convex and mostly glabrous beneath, 
very frequently spirally twisted and pungent. Heads mostly corymbose or 
fascicled, having in 2 species from 100 to 200 flowers, in all the others from 
3 to 10 flowers.—20 species, dispersed. 
85. LACHNOSPERMUM, Willd. 
Heads many-flowered, homogamous, discoid. Involucre 
turbinate, the scales closely imbricate, with subpungent tips. 
Receptacles with a few marginal pales. Corolla tubular, 5- 
toothed. Achenes oblong, angular, the young ones villous at 
the angles, the full-grown densely hairy. Pappus 2-seriate, 
of slender, serrulate bristles —/U. Cap. ii. p. 272. 
A slender straggling shrub, with spreading branches, leafy to the summit. 
Leaves minute, linear-terete, obtuse or mucronulate, slightly twisted, with 
axillary leaf-tufts, margins involute as in Metalasia. Heads solitary or sub- 
corymbose.—ZL. ericoides, W., the only species, grows in Namaqualand. 
86. PACHYRHYNCHUS, DC. 
Heads about 10-flowered, homogamous, all the flowers 5- 
