1S2 LXX. COMPOS IT.E. 



ill Sphcnogyne) of 5 obovate, white, spiral scales, the inner of 

 5 slender, white bristles. — Fl. Cap. iii. |;. 150. 



Herbs or suffrutices, with the habit of Sphenogijne. — 10 species, dispersed. 

 SuBTRiBE 3. Anthemide^. (Gen. 50-75.) 

 50. EUMORPHIA, DC. 



Heads radiate ; rays 1-seriate, female ; disk-flowers bisexual, 

 5-toothed, dilated at base above the ovary. Involucre imbri- 

 cate. Kcceptacle convex, covered with palea^, enclosing the 

 flowers. Anthers without tails. Style-arms divergent, obtuse. 

 Achenes glabrous, prismatic, 3-4-angled, without pappus. — 

 —FL Cap. Hi. p. 153 ; Harv. Tlies, t.^70. 



JS. Bregeaiia, DC, is a small, glabrous shrub, with opposite, imbricate, 

 linear, very small leaves, and terminal, peduncled heads ; rays white. — 

 Grows on the Sneeuweberg. 



51. LASIOSPEKMUM, Lag. 



Heads radiate ; rays female, ligulate, or minute and tubular ; 

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

 imbricated, shorter than the disk. Eeceptacle broad, bearing 

 palese. Style-arms truncate. Achenes wingless, without pap- 

 pus, the younger hairy, the old involved in very thick wool. — 

 Fl. Cap. iii. p. 153. 



Glabrous herbs or undershrubs,with alternate, pinnatisect leaves, and long, 

 1-headed peduncles ; rays, when present, white. — 3 species, dispersed. 



52. LIDBECKIA, Berg. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; rays 1-seriate, ligulate, 

 neuter ; disk-flowers tubular, bisexual, 4-toothed. Involucre 

 2-3-seriate, the scales as long as the disk. E-eceptacle flatfish, 

 bearing a few filiform shreds. Style-arms truncate. Ovaries 

 of ray abortive. Achenes of disk fertile, wingless, glabrous, 

 without pappus, longitudinally ribbed, crowned by a cylin- 

 drical nectary. — Fl. Cap. iii, p. 154. 



Undershrubs, with alternate, lobed or pinnatifid leaves, and 1-headcd pe- 

 duncles ; rays white. 



53. THAMNIOPHYLLUM, Harv. 



Heads few- or many-flowered, radiate ; rays ligulate, neuter ; 

 disk-flowers bisexual, sharply 4-toothed. Involucral scales 

 linear, subbiseriate, loosely imbricate, herbaceous. E-ecep- 

 tacle nude, narrow or conical. Anthers without tails. Style- 

 arms truncate. Achenes oblong, subcompressed, glabrous, 

 crowned with a hardened, conical style-base or nectary. Pap- 

 pus 0. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 155. 



