Eui-yops.l LXXIII. COMPOSITJE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 423 



rough or barbellate pappus. — Low shrubs with alternate often crowded 

 fleshy entire or incised leaves and pedunculate axillary yellow capitula. 

 A considerable genus of the Cape region. 



1. S. pinlfoUus, A. Rich. FL Abyss, i. p. 445, t. 60. A procum- 

 bent glabrous undershrub ; branches woody, terete, densely leafy or 

 closely marked with the scars and pulvini of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 linear, obtuse, fleshy, subterete, ^1 in. long, sessile. Peduncles terete, 

 rigid, solitary in the upper axils, 1^-2^ in., corymbosely arranged, 

 straw-coloured. Livolucre hemispherical, ^? in. diameter, composed 

 of about 12 otate-oblong bracts, connate nearly half way. Capitula 

 solitary, many-flowered; marginal florets ligulate ; ligules oblong 4-5- 

 nerved, f in. long. Disk-florets about equalling the involucre. 

 Achenes glabrous. 



irile Ziand. Abyssinia, Oudgerate, Petit ! Somali-land, alt. 6,000 feet, Hilde- 

 hrandt ! 



E. arabicus, Steud. (Carcsa pinifolia, Hochst.) in Herb. Schimp. Arab. n. 852, 

 much resembles our species but perhaps diflFers by shorter peduncles and fewer 

 involucral bracts. 



86. OTHONNA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 453. 



Capitula (heterogamous, radiate or) ray-florets wanting. Involucre 

 campanulate or oblong (or hemispherical) ; bracts l-senate, equal, 

 more or less connate at the base or nearly quite free, margins imbri- 

 cate ; caly cuius 0. Style in 1 or more of the outer florets 2-fid ; bran- 

 ches obtuse or truncate, penicillate, of the rest of the florets undivided. 

 Achenes terete with a copious white pappus. — Shrubby or herbaceous 

 with alternate more or less fleshy entire or variously toothed or dis- 

 sected leaves, and terminal usually yellow solitary or cymose capitula. 

 A considerable South African genus. 



1. O. Bainesil, 0. §• H. Shrubby, glabrous or nearly so. Bran- 

 ches sulcate (in the dry state). Leaves elliptical, rounded at apex, 

 somewhat narrowed to the sessile 3- or 5-nerved base, fleshy, coriaceous 

 when dry, ^2 in. long, about twice the length of the internodes ; 

 veins inconspicuous except base. Heads campanulate- oblong, § to 

 nearly 1 in. long, on bracteate peduncles, terminal and subterminal. 

 Involucral bracts oblong, about 5, subconnate at base, nearly ^ in. 

 long ; tip ovate, subobtuse, obsoletely ciliolate. Florets all tubular ; 

 corolla exceeding the involucre and pappus. Achenes costate, very 

 shortly hairy. 



Soutb Central t South African Gold Fields, Baines ! 



87. TRIPTERIS, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 455. 



Capitula heterogamous, radiate ; ray-flurets ligulate $ , disk-florets 

 tubular, sterile. Invol^icre campanulate or spreading ; bracts sub-l- 

 seriate, linear or subub.te above with scarious margins. Anther-base 

 produced contiguous appendices connate. " Style of sterile florets 



