LXX. COMPOSITJil. 183 



Much-branched, twiggy, closely leafy, silky, small sliriibs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, crowded, linear, quite entire, 1-nerved, with reflexed margins. Heads 

 subsessile or shortly pcdicelled, terminal or in leafy racemes. Kays white. 

 Very near LidhecUa in floral structure, but extremely different in aspect. — 

 2 spedies, in Swellendam and George. 



54. GAMOLEPIS, Less. 



Heads radiate ; rays ligulate, female ; disk -flowers tubular, 

 5-tootlied, bisexual, fertile. luvolucral scales 1-seriatc, con- 

 nate into a cup for \ ov \ their length, or more. Eeceptacle 

 convex, nude or slightly honeycombed. Style-arms cone- 

 tipped. Achencs glabrous, wingless, without pappus, with a 

 terminal areole. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 155. 



Small shrubs or herbs, mostly glabrous. Leaves pinnatisect or entire, 

 alternate. Peduncles 1 -headed ; flowers yellow. — 12 species (1 undescribed), 

 dispersed. 



55. STEIRODISCUS, Less. 



Heads radiate ; rays female, ligulate ; disk-flowers bisexual 

 but sterile, terete, 5-toothed. Involucre campanulate, 1-se- 

 riate. Eeceptacle nude. Ovaries of disk linear, glabrous, 

 sterile. Style-arms cone-tipped. Achenes of ray obovoid, 

 silky.— jP/. Cap. iii. 159. 



Small annuals. Leaves pinnate-parted, the lobes linear-filiform. Heads 

 terminal, solitary, yellow. — 2 species, both Western. 



56. lOCASTE, E. Mey. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers 1-2-seriate, ligulate, female ; disk- 

 flowers 12-15, tubular, 5-toothed. Involucre 2-3-seriate, imbri- 

 cate, the inner scales scarious-tipped. Keceptacle nude. Style- 

 arms truncate. Anthers not tailed. Achenes terete, with 

 8-10 obtuse, raised strise, glandularly scabrid, without pappus, 

 truncate. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 160. Oligoglossa, DC. Fr. vi. p. 76. 



A glabrous, many-stemmed undershrub, corymbose above. Leaves linear- 

 subulate, erect, entire, keeled, pungent; heads pedicelled, yellow. — Nortli- 

 Eastern and Eastern districts. 



57 ? PHYMASPERMUM, Less. 



Heads radiate ; rays of two kinds, some ligulate, some fili- 

 form ; disk-flowers bisexual, terete, 5-toothed. Involucre cam- 

 ])anulate, imbricated. Eeceptacle nude, flat. Ovary wing- 

 less, without pappus, papillose-canescent, elliptical. Style- 

 arms truncate. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 160. 



P. junceum. Less., a very little-known plant, is a mucli-bi'anched slirub, 

 with scattered, sessile, linear, keeled, very entire leaves, and solitary, small, 

 terminal heads. 



