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disk-flowers 5-toothed, tubular, perfect. Involucral scales 
imbricate in several rows, the inner scales longer, membranous, 
arid. Receptacle without pale, either honeycombed or fim- 
briate. Achenes beakless, sessile, glabrous or pubescent. 
Pappus short, either a toothed crown or of several, short, se- 
parate or connate scales.— #7. Cap. i. p. 295. (Nestlera and 
Polycheetia, Less.) 
Small, arid, rigid shrubs ; rarely biennials or annuals. Leaves alternate 
or opposite, sessile, linear or oblong, entire. Flowers yellow. Heads 
solitary, terminal or in the forks.—11 species, dispersed. 
103. RELHANTA, L’ Her. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate ; ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, 
ligulate ; disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual, sometimes 
sterile. Involucre ovate or cylindrical, the scales hard and dry, 
closely imbricating. Receptacle flat, bearing palee between 
the flowers. Achenes linear-prismatic, glabrous or pubescent, 
slender, sometimes shortly beaked. Pappus either crown-like 
and shortly-toothed or subentire ; or of many small, sharp 
scales.— Hl. Cap. ui. p. 298. (Relhania, Eclopes, and Rhyn- 
chopsidium, Auct.) 
Small rigid shrublets or rigid annuals, often gummy. Leaves alternate 
or opposite, entire, small. Heads terminal, solitary or corymbose. Flowers 
yellow.—16 species, dispersed. 
104? OLIGODORA, DC. 
Heads 5-flowered, homogamous; flowers 5-toothed, tubular, 
perfect. Involucre imbricate, subtrigonous, the scales ap- 
pressed, the innermost with the margin clasping round the 
outer achenes. Receptacle narrow, paleaceo-fimbrilliferous, 
the scales folding round the achenes. Style-arms included, 
obtuse and pilose at the apex. Anthers tailed? Achenes 
cylindrical, smooth. Pappus of 5 ovate, short, toothed scales. 
— Fl. Cap. iii. p. 303. 
O. dentata, DC., is a little-known undershrub, from the Aderberg. 
Leaves alternate, thickish, sessile, toothed, mucronate. Heads corymbose. 
105. OSMITES, Linn. 
Heads many-flowered, radiate ; ray-flowers ligulate, female ; 
disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucre hemi- 
spherical, the scales multiseriate, herbaceous, subequal. Re- 
ceptacle flat, bearing scarious palee. Anthers tailed. Achenes 
sessile, beakless, glabrous or downy, somewhat 4-sided, com- 
pressed. Pappus of many short scales.—F7. Cap. iii. p. 303. 
Undershrubs, with alternate, crowded, sessile, oblong obovate or linear, 
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