ICONES PLANTARUM, 35 
PLATE 1138. 
DENEKIA CAPENSIS, Thunb. 
Composit, Tribe INULOIDEZ PLUCHEINEA. 
D. capensis, Thuxd.; DO. Prod. v. 462; foliis subtus albo-tomentosis. 
Has. S. Africa, apparently common in the eastern districts of the Cape 
Colon, extending to the highlands of the Batoka country within the 
tropic 
Caules e basi annua y. perenni, numerosi, decumbentes v. ascendentes, 
plerique infra 6 poll., v. in speciminibus vegetioribus erectiores. subped 
tenues, glabri v. tomento deciduo vestiti. Folia oblongo-linearia, sessilia, 
amplexicaulia, acu argine i dulata interdumque sinuato-den- 
ta, 1-3 poll. rarius 4 poll. longa, supra glabr. ax 
t ppresso incana ; inferi radicalia sepe subspathulata obtusa 
in petiolum contracta. lin. , cy 
parvos plus “sa pedunculatos terminales disposita, foliis floralibus su- 
perioribusque vulgo diminutis. ores albi, f p erosi, 
centrales D baruaphrodit a multo pauciores, acheniis vacuis seta 
unica apice plumosa coronati 
Fig. 1. Involucre and receptacle. 2. Female floret. 3. Summit of its style, the branches 
represented much too thick. 4. Hermaphrodite floret. 5. Three of its stamens, the very fine 
tails to the anthers not clearly represented. 6. Summit of its style. 7. Seta forming the - 
peppus. 
ome aye species, the genus comprises a second one mayan with the 
es green on both sides; and in Burchell’s collection are some small 
’D. ceerulea he n 
specimens, oth the name of , with t ote that the central her- 
maphrodite florets are fe and the achenes rostrate; the specimens are, 
however, not sufficiently advanced to verify these characters.—G. BENTHAM. 
PraTe 1139. 
LUINA HYPOLEUCA, Benth. 
Composita, Tribe SENECIONIDER? 
Luina, Benth. gen. nov. Capitula homogama, discoidea, floribus omni- 
bus hermaphroditis Trextilibus. Involucrum campanulatum, bracteis subuni- 
