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Young achenes compressed ; adult 5-angled, tapering to each 
end, ciliate on the angles, with a very short beak covered with 
thick bristles, resembling an outer pappus. Pappus 1-seriate, 
bristle-shaped, very slender, deciduous ; in the disk-flowers of 
many, in the ray of few bristles.—F/. Cap. iil. p. 306. 
A rigid, glabrous perennial, found near Verleptpram on the Gariep. 
Stems branched above. Leaves on long petioles, pinnatisect, the lobes 
lanceolate, toothed. Branches ending in nude, 1-headed pedicels, subco- 
rymbose. Corolla pale yellow, with red medial lines. 
110. CINERARIA, Linn. 
Heads many-flowered, rarely discoid, mostly radiate ; rays 
ligulate, female; disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, the medial 
nerve strongly marked. Involucre 1-seriate, mostly calycled, 
the scales membranous-edged. Receptacle nude, flat. Style- 
arms in the disk-flowers tipped with a short cone. Achenes 
mostly flattened, often (at least the outer ones) winged at 
margin. Pappus in 1 or more rows, capillary, caducous.— FV. 
Cap. ii. p. 307. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, mostly petioled, the petiole often 
eared at base, the lamina lobed, toothed or lyrate-pinnatisect, or reniform. 
Heads mostly corymbose.—22 species, dispersed. 
111. LOPHOLANA, DC. 
Heads many-flowered, all the flowers tubular, 5-fid, with a 
terete tube; the marginal flowers mostly cleft on the inner 
side, with abortive anthers ; those of the disk bisexual, some- 
times abortive. Involucre 5-leaved, the scales free, leaf-like, 
broadly keel-crested at back, winged at the sides. Receptacle 
honeycombed. Style-arms in the perfect flowers elongate, 
downy at back, produced at apex into a long, everywhere his- 
pid, subacute appendix. Achenes angular, beakless, gla- 
brescent, ciliate at the angles, the central often abortive. 
Pappus multiseriate, bristle-shaped, scarcely rough.— Fl. Cap. 
in. p. 314. 
L. Dregeana, DC., a robust, glabrous undershrub, with alternate, half- 
clasping, oblong, obtuse, rigid, entire, 3-nerved leaves and subcorymbose 
heads ; is found near Natal. 
112. CACALIA, Linn. 
Heads several-flowered, homogamous ; all the flowers tubu- 
lar, 5-fid, bisexual. Involucre 1-seriate, of 5-380 scales, with 
a few bracteoles at base. Receptacle nude.  Style-arms 
tipped with a short cone, hispid at base. Achenes oblong, 
beakless, glabrous. Pappus 1-seriate, of many rigid, seabrous 
bristles.— #7. Oap. iii. p. 315. 
