982 Compositae. 
short palae connate at the base and of a few long outer plumose 
setae. — Rigid or slender herbs or undershrubs with narrow entire 
crowded leaves and yellow flowers. 
A small genus, all South African, except the following. 
1350. Leyssera capillifolia (Willd.) DC. Prodrom. VI (1837), 
p. 279. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 88 no. 541. — 
Leyssera discoidea Cass. in Dict. Scienc. Natur. XXVI (1823), p. 79. 
— Longchampsia capillifolia Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Freunde Mag. V, 
p- 160 (1811). — Fresen. Mus. Senckenberg II, p. 88. — A slender 
somewhat glandular-scabrid shining annual, branched from the crown 
of the root, 6—9 cm high. Leaves narrowly linear or filiform, 
ranging up to 2cm long. Capitula 8 g, solitary, on 
slender divaricate subterminal peduncles of 2—51/, em long. Involueral 
bracts obtuse, linear or the outer ones oblong or oval, the inner 
ones with scarious tips. Ligule of the ray-florets very small. Setae 
of the outer pappus plumose towards the apex. — Flow. March 
to April. 
D. a. sept. Suez; Atfih. 
Also known from Spain and the other parts of the Sahara region to 
Western Asia. 
560. (20.) Inula Linn. 
Capitula heterogamous usually yellow and radiate; flowers of 
the ray female, 1-multiseriate. Involucral bracts multiseriate, imbricate ; 
receptacle plane or slightly convex, areolate or foveolate. Corolla 
of the female flower 2—3-dentate, sometimes minute; of the 
hermaphrodite flower tubular 5-toothed. Anther-base sagittate with 
long tails. Achenes subterete, 4—6-ribbed or with the intermediate 
ribs equally distinct. Pappus 1-pluriseriate, setae few or copious, 
unequal. —- Herbaceous or frutescent with alternate, simple, entire 
or serrate, more or less scabrid pubescent or tomentose leaves. 
Capitula usually in terminal corymbose cymes; occasionally on short 
lateral branches. 
A large genus especially of temperate countries of the Old World. 
A. Achenes nearly cylindrical, ribbed, not tapering 
at the tip; pappus free. . . 4) ek ... . I. L crithmoides: 
B. Achenes oblong, tapering into : wht BAG: Bristles 
of the pappus united at the base into a short cup 2. I. viscosa. 
1351. (1.) Inula crithmoides L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1240. 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 195. — Rehbeh. Ice. XVI, tab. 41 fig. 1. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.85 no. 518. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 244. —-  Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
