1000 Compositae. 
bearing oblong or round transparent glands or vesicles filled with 
a strongly-scented oil. Leaves opposite, entire or pinnate. Flower- 
heads large and solitary or small and corymbose or paniculate. 
Ray yellow or orange-red. 
A genus of about 70 species, all from Tropical Africa, 2—3 cosmopolitain, 
1379. Tagetes minuta L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1250. — 
Ascherson-Schweinf. Ill. Flor, d’Eg., p. 89 no. 213. — Tagetes glandu- 
lifera Schrank. Plant. Rar. Hort. Monae. II, tab. 54. — DC. Prodrom. V, 
p. 644. — Tagetes bonariensis Pers. Syn. Il, p.459. — Tagetes 
glandulosa Link. Enum. Plant. Hort. Berol. Il, p.339. — Tagetes 
porophyllum Vell. Flor. Flum. VII, tab. 116. — An annual erect 
herb, often branched 40—60 cm high. Leaves alternate simply 
pinnate; the lower ones 3—4 cm long, lobes 4—8 jugate lanceolate, 
deeply serrate 1—1,5 cm long, the lower ones decurrent at the 
base. Heads densely corymbose, shortly peduncled. Involucre 
eylindrieal, glabrous, greenish, 4mm long, 1 mm diameter, with 
many browish glandular lines, teeth 4 deltoid. Ligules 2—3 paly 
yellow; achenes black 3mm long; setae of the pappus 1—2 linear, 
the other short. — Flow. February to March. 
N. d. Cairo, often in gardens and naturalized. 
A native of Tropical America. 
577. (37.) Santolina Tourn. 
Capitula many-flowered, homogamous or heterogamous; ray- 
flowers few by abortion female, ligulate. Receptacle convex sub- 
hemisphaerical with oblong scales. Involucre often campanulate; 
involucel-bracts imbricate, appressed. Tube of the corolla often in 
the lower part with an annullus. Achenes oblong, subtetragonous. 
glabrous. — Shrubs, rarely herbs. Branches mostly ending in only 
one head. Capitula without bract. Flowers yellow, rarely white. 
A small genus of only one species in the Mediterranean region. 
1380. Santolina chamaecyparissus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1179. — DC. Prodr. VI, p. 35. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Illustr. Flor. 
d’Eg., Supplem. p. 761. — A shrubby plant 50—60 cm high or 
sometimes somewhat more, branching from the base. Branches 
greyish or pubescent, the flower-bearing ones without leaves, mono- 
cephalous, the others leafy. Leaves tomentose, somewhat toothed, 
teeth obtuse; involucre campanulate; bracts of the involucel lanceolate 
with a middle-nery. — Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. Often in gardens at Alexandria and sometimes naturalized. 
Common in the Mediterranean region and Middle Europe. 
