178 LXX. COMPOSITE. 



toothed bristles, few in the ray-flower, copious in the disk- 

 flower. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 123. 



C. Eckloniana, DC, is a much-branched unclerslirub, witli alternate, ob- 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire leaves, white underneath, glabrous and 1-nerved 

 above. Heads solitary, terminal. Corolla yellow. — G-rows in Uitenhage. 

 Unknown to me. 



37. MINUKOTHAMNUS, DC. 



Heads many-flowered ; ray-flowers ligulate, female, in 1 

 row ; disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, hermaphrodite. Invo- 

 lucral scales 2-seriate, the outer shorter, acuminate, inner 

 longer, obtuse, membrane- edged. Filaments glabrous ; an- 

 thers shortly tailed. Style 2-fid, with spreading branches. 

 Achenes obovate ?, woolly. Pappus in 2 rows, of about 20 

 straight, yellow, toothed bristles, the outer 10 shorter, the 

 inner more rigid. — Fl. Cop. iii. p. 121?. 



31. phagnaloides, DC, found by Ecklon in Caledon, is said to have the 

 habit of Cypselodontia. Unknown to me. 



38. GEIGERIA, Griessl. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, ligulate ; disk- 

 flowers tubular, perfect, 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, erect, 

 externally glandular-scabrid. Involucre closely imbricate, the 

 outer scales mostly leaf- tipped, the inner horny, acute or acu- 

 minate. Eeceptacle convex, piloso- or paleaceo-fimbrilliferous. 

 Anthers tailed. Style-branches of the disk-flowers linear-lan- 

 ceolate, flattened. Achenes subtrigonous, hairy or pilose, 

 beakless, narrowed to the base. Pappus 2-seriate, of 10-lG 

 scales, either all aristate or the outer ones blunt, or all of them 

 toothed.— i^'Z. Gap. iii. p. 121<. 



Glabrous or scabrous undershrubs, with rigid leafy stems or nearly stem- 

 less. Leaves alternate, linear or subulate, 1-nerved, quite entire or tootlied, 

 gland-dotted on each side of the rib. Heads sessile, either terminal or in 

 the forks, or pseudo-lateral on lengthening branches, llowers yellow. — 

 9 species (1 undescribed), either Eastern or near or beyond the Eastern 

 and North-Eastern frontiers. 



Teibe 4. Senecionide^. 



SUBTEIBE 1. Helianthe/e. (G^en. 39-44.) 



39. ECLIPTA, Linn. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers in few rows, female, short and 

 narrow-ligulate ; disk-flowers tubular, 4-toothed, hermaphrodite. 

 Involucre 2-seriate, of 10-12 ovato-lanceolate, acuminate scales. 

 Ttoceptacle plano-convex, with linear-filiform paleae, ciliate at 

 the apex, and equalling the achenes. Style-arms in the 



