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Flowers yellow, white, or purplish. Fruits three-winged. 

 Herbs or shrubs, mostly sticky, strongly scented. 



Tribe V. — Heads with rays (rarely all tubular). Anthers 

 with short tails. Achenes swollen, with a flat disc at the top, 

 often woolly. Pappus none, or of scales or bristles. 



Arctotis. — Ray flowers bearing fruit. Pappus of two 

 rows of scales. Achenes very silky near the base. Receptacle 



I. 



II. 



Fig. 275. — Printzia. I. Ray flower. 11. The stigma, pushing out, brushes 

 the pollen from the stam.ens. III. The following day it draws back and 

 leaves the pollen in a ring at the top of the stamens. 



honeycombed, with bristles. Involucre of small outer scales, 

 the inner with large, thin, papery tips. 



Her]).s, often slemless. Flowers large, handsome, white, yellow, or 

 orange, the rays usually purplish beneath. 



Gazania. — Heads radiate, the disc flowers bearing the 

 fruit. Involucre in several rows, forming a cup at the base. 

 Receptacle honeycombed. Pappus in two rows of toothed 

 scales, often hidden in the wool of the achenes. 



Herbs with or without stems. Leaves all radical or scattered, 



