202 LXX. COMPOSIT®. 
Herbs with the aspect of Avctotis.—18 species, dispersed. 
127. HAPLOCARPHA, Less. 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers ligulate, female; disk-flowers 5- 
toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales imbricate, multiseriate, 
the outer acuminate, inner scarious. Receptacle nude, flat. 
Filaments granulated! Achenes wingless, turbinate, silky or 
glabrous, with a tuft of silky basal hairs. Pappus 1-seriate, of 
many narrow, tapering, very delicate, diaphanous, nerved 
scales.— FU. Cap. i. p. 464: 
Stemless perennials. Radical leaves numerous, petioled, entire or lyrate- 
pinnatifid, tomentose with white hairs beneath. Scapes 1-headed, longer 
than the leaves.—4 species, dispersed. 
128. LANDTIA, Less. 
Characters of Haplocarpha, except: Filaments quite smooth! 
— Fl. Cap. iu. p. 466. 
Stemless perennials, with many radical leaves. Scapes shorter than the 
Jeaves.—2 species, both Eastern. 
129. ARCTOTHECA, Wendl. 
Heads radiate; ray-flowers ligulate, neuter; disk-flowers 
bisexual. Involucral scales imbricate in many rows, the 
outer linear, herbaceous, inner larger, scarious, very obtuse. 
Receptacle honeycombed, fimbrilliferous. Filaments papil- 
lose! Achenes ovate, somewhat 4-sided, without wings or 
pappus.—7. Cap. iii. p. 467. 
A. repens, W., is a caulescent, creeping or decumbent herb. Leaves 
petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid, green and mostly smooth above, white-woolly 
beneath.—Found about Capetown and in the Western districts. 
130. CRYPTOSTEMMA, R. Br. 
Heads radiate ; rays ligulate, neuter, often irregularly cleft 
or cut or 2-ligulate ; disk-flowers bisexual. Involucral scales 
in many rows, imbricated, the outer narrow, herbaceous ; inner 
membranous, obtuse. Receptacle honeycombed. Filaments 
scabrous! Achenes wingless, very thickly clothed with long, 
soft, silky hairs. Pappus 1-seriate, paleaceous, hidden among 
the hair of the achene.—F. Cap. i. p. 467. 
Stemless or caulescent herbs, more or less tomentose. Leaves very va- 
riable in size and incision, lyrate-pinnatifid, runcinate or rarely undivided. 
Rays yellow ; disk dark-coloured.—2 species. C. calendulaceum is a com- 
mon weed in waste places throughout the colony. 
131. MICROSTEPHIUM, Less. 
Heads radiate ; rays ligulate, neuter ; disk-flowers 5-toothed, 
