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Depressed, densely leafy undershrubs. Leaves minute, linear, as in 
Stebe. Heads in tufts or spikes.—7 species, dispersed. 
95. PHAENOCOMA, Don. 
Heads very many-flowered, moneecious, all the flowers tu- 
bular, 5-toothed ; marginal female, in a single row; central 
male, with abortive stigmas. Involucre imbricate; inner 
scales lanceolate, radiating. Receptacle nude. Pappus in one 
row, of many rough bristles; in the female flowers variously 
cohering, in the males club-shaped.— #7. Cap. iii. p. 287. 
P. prolifera, Don, the only species, is a much-branched, robust, small 
shrub, with tomentose branches. Twigs very short, closely imbricated 
with minute, scale-like, bluntly ovate, glabrous leaves. Heads large, ter- 
minal, solitary ; involucre imbricate in many rows, the scales woolly at 
base ; outer short, appressed ; inner very long, radiating, acuminate, rosy- 
purple.—Mountains in Stellenbosch, Worcester, and Caledon. 
96. PETALACTE, Don. 
Heads 10—20-flowered, moneecious, all the flowers tubular, 
5-toothed ; marginal few (1-8) female, hidden among the in- 
nermost involucral scales; the rest male. Involucre imbri- 
cate, the outer scales scarious, very hairy; inner clawed, 
with petaloid (white) radiating, obtuse lamine. Receptacle 
with marginal palez, nude in centre. Achenes beakless, gla- 
brous, the central abortive. Pappus in one row, of slender 
bristles, those of the male flowers subplumose or clavate at 
the apex.—Fl. Cap. iii. p. 288. 
Small shrubs or halfshrubs, with woolly, entire, spathulate or obovate 
leaves. Heads corymbose.—2 species, both Western. 
97. ANAXETON, Cass. 
Heads few-flowered, moneecious, all the flowers tubular, 5- 
toothed ; 1—2 female, the rest male. Involucral scales in many 
rows, dry, loosely imbricate, the innermost clawed, spathulate, 
with a roundish (white rosy or purple) lamina. Receptacle 
without palex, woolly or glabrous. Style in the males quite 
simple. Achenes sessile, cylindrical, beakless, the fertile gra- 
nulated or pubescent. Pappus of a few scabrous or shortly 
plumose bristles, shorter than the flower.—/l. Cap. iii. p. 289. 
Small shrublets, erect or ascending. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, entire, 
mucronate, with revolute margins. Heads in peduncled corymbs ; involu- 
eral scales white or rosy-purple.—6 species, all Western. 
98. ATHRIXIA, Ker. 
Heads many-flowered, heterogamous ; ray-flowers in a single 
row, ligulate or 2-ligulate, female ; disk-flowers bisexual, 5- 
toothed, tubular. Involucre turbinate, the scales closely im- 
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