Landtia.] Lxxiii. composite: (oliver and hiern). 427 



Receptacle alveolate, fimbrillate with a few rather long subulate paleae. 

 — Schnittspahnia Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Linnaea, 1842, p. 439 ; 

 JJhicea Schimperi, J. Gray ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 447. 

 zrue Kand. Abyssinia, Schimpcr! Petit! Roth! 



91. HAPLOCABPHA, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 457. 



Characters of Landtia ; our species differs in long scape and the 

 achenes with a conspicuous paleaceous pappus, the paleaa subulate or 

 aristate, and the ovary densely villous below. 



Exclusively South African. 



1. X. scaposa, Rarv. FL Cap. iii. p. 465. Leaves elliptical or 

 somewhat spathulate, rounded at apex, white cottony beneath, obso- 

 letely so and slightly scabrid above, repand- dentate, about 3 in. long, 

 narrowed at base into petiole. Scape about 10 in. long, white-cottony. 

 Capitula solitary, scarcely 1 in. diam. Involucral scales obtuse, in 

 several rows, thinly cottony. Achenes glabrous, with a basal tuft of 

 pilose-silky hairs that exceeds them, crowned with acute subulate 

 scales which in our specimen are brown. Flowers yellow. — H. Thuri' 

 hergii, DC. Prodr. vi. p. 494, non Less, ex Harv. 



Kozamb. BIstr. Near Sotschi, Kirk ! alt. 3,000 ft. 



Occurs also in Eastern districts of Cape Colony, Kaflfraria, Natal, Transvaal, etc, 



92. ARCTOTIS, Linn. ; Benth et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 458. 



Capitula heterogamous radiate ; ray-florets ligulate $ . Involucre 

 hemispherical of pluri- or multiseriate scarious-tipped successively 

 longer bracts. Style-branches connate to or near to the apex. Achenes 

 villous or with tufted basal hairs, back 3-5-costate with the lateral 

 ridges winged, the wings incurved so as nearly to meet the median 

 ridge, thus enclosing two dorsal cavities. Pappus 2-seriate, inner 

 paleaa contorted, outer smaller or all minute. — Acaulescent or caules- 

 cent herbs, more or less hoary or lanate ; leaves entire or pinnatifid. 

 Capitula solitary on long or short peduncles ; disk orange yellow or 

 purplish ; ray same or varying rose or white. 



Another Cape genus with the following exception. 



1. A. pygrmeea, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 448. Stemless, scarcely 

 1 in. high. Leaves radical, oblong or elliptical, pinnatifid, attenuate at 

 the base into a short petiole f-f in. long, scarcely pubescent above, 

 white tomentose beneath, rather fleshy. Capitula rather small, soli- 

 tary, shortly pedunculate, falling short of the leaves. Outer involucral 

 bracts lanceolate, foliaceous, subtomentose. Corolla-tube of the disk- 

 florets cottony. Achenes somewhat compressed, subulate with den- 

 ticulate wings. Pappus-scales 8, oblong, pellucid, attenuate, dissected- 

 dentate. 



Srtle X^and. Abyssinia, Ouodgerate, Petit ! 



The specimens seen by us, kindly lent by Count Franqueville from the Richard 

 Herbarium, were too imperfect for us to see the achenes or flowers. 



