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46. CEDERA, Linn. 



Heads crowded in a bracteated cluster, cylindrical, few- 

 flowered, radiate ; ray-flow^ers few, female, elonf^ate toward the 

 circumference of the cluster, short towards the centre ; disk- 

 flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucral scales ap- 

 presssed, scarious, in few rows. Receptacle paleaceous. An- 

 thers tipped with a truncate appendage, without tails. Style- 

 arms truncate. Achenes wingless, angular-cylindrical, gla- 

 brous. Pappus of several minute or longish, equal or unequal, 

 semilanceolate scales, or crown-like, toothed. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 

 134. 



Small, densely leafy, sliglitly branched, rigid, South African shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite or ternate, or spirally imbricate, rough-edged. Head- 

 clusters terminal, sessile ; flowers yellow. — 4 species, all Western. 



47. CALLILEPIS, DC. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers in 1 row, ligulate, female ; disk- 

 flowers 5-toothed. Involucral scales imbricated, lanceolate, 

 subequal, Receptacle flat, bearing dry, acuminate, rigid, 

 clasping palere. Style-arms cone-tipped. Achenes glabrous, 

 of the ray 3-angled, compressed ; of the disk flat. Pappus of 

 2-3 scarious, acuminate, unequal, keeled scales, sometimes 

 with 1-2 minute additional. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 13G. 



Glabrous or pubescent, rigid undershrubs, with subsimple stems. Leaves 

 rigid, undivided, the lowest opposite, the rest alternate, linear or lanceolate. 

 ITeads terminal, solitary, many-flowered. — 2 species, from Natal and Maga- 

 lisberg. 



48. SPHENOGYNE, R. Br. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers in 1 row, neuter ; disk-flowers 

 tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Receptacle bearing scarious, trun- 

 cate, flower-clasping pale?e. Involucral scales imbricate, the 

 inner larger, amply membrane-tipped. Achenes girt at base 

 with a circle of long, soft, silky hairs. Pappus of about 5, 

 obovate, obtuse broad scales, spirally rolled together in the 

 unopened flower, much enlarged in fruit, and milk-white. — Fl. 

 Cap. iii. p. 137. 



A large African genus of imdershrubs and herbs, strong-scented, with 

 gland-dotted, mostly pinnate-parted, rarely serrate or entire, alternate 

 leaves. Peduncles mostly nude, 1-lieuded, rarely panicled. Flowers yellow ; 

 the rays in many species coppery or dark brown on the under surface. — 

 44 species, dispersed ; many very handsome. 



49. URSINIA, Oa^rtn. 



Heads as in ^phenogyne^ except, — 1. Achenes obovate or 

 pear-shaped, oblique, distinctly tapering at base, quite gla- 

 brous, obscurely 5-ribbed. 2. Pappus 2-seriate, the outer (as 



