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66. PENTZIA, Thunb. 



Heads homogamous. Involucre obovate, equalling the 

 disk, its scales imbricate, scarious. Keceptacle flat or con- 

 vex, sparingly fimbrillilerous. Corolla 5- rarely 4-tootlied. 

 Aclienes angular, wingless, sessile. Pappus membranous, 

 shortly tubular, irregularly torn, oblique or car-shaped. — Fl. 

 Cap. ill. 2^- 171. 



Small, rigid, mostly canescent shrubs or lialfshrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 variously toothed, cut, or pinnatisect. Heads terminal, yellow, corymbose 

 or solitary. — 10 species, dispersed. 



67. MARASMODES, DC. 



Heads homogamous. Involucre ovate, imbricate, the outer 

 scales scarious at tip. Eeceptacle narrow, nude. Corolla- 

 tube short, glandular ; limb 5-toothed. Anthers not tailed. 

 Aehenes terete, beakless. Pappus of several, separate, mem- 

 branous, obtuse scales. — Fl. Cap. Hi. p. 175. 



Eigid, glabrous undersbrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, thickish, linear- 

 terete, quite entire. Heads small, at the ends of the branches, subsessile. 

 — 2 species. 



68? ADENOSOLEN, DC. 



" Heads many-flowered, homogamous. Involucre imbricate, 

 in about 3 rows. Eeceptacle convex, nude. Corolla-tube 

 glandular, dilated at base and closely adhering to the ovary, 

 the throat dilated, bell-shaped, 5-fid. Anthers tailless, ex- 

 serted in the sterile, subincluded in fertile flowers. Style-arms 

 exserted, capitellate. Achene terete, without pappus." {BC.) 

 —Fl. Cap. iii. p. 175. 



A. tenuifolius, DC, found near TJitenhage, by Ecklon, is a small shrub, 

 witli the habit of a Marasmodes. 



69. PEYROUSEA, DC. 



Heads many-flowered, discoid, homogamous. Involucre 

 hemispherical, the scales in 2-3 rows, of subequal length, longer 

 than the disk. Eeceptacle flat, nude. Tube of corolla flat- 

 tened, 2-winged, the limb short, 4-lobed. Style-arms trun- 

 cate. Aehenes flattened, with a thick marginal rim, glabrous, 

 similar, without pappus. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 176. 



Virgate, sparingly -branched, silky and silvery shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 sessile, crowded, oblong-lanceolate, quite entii-e. Heads corymbose. — 1 (or 

 2 ?) species, South-Eastern. 



70. OTOCHLAMYS, DC. 



Heads discoid, heterogamous, all the flowers on tooth-like 

 pedicels ; marginal flowers 1- seriate, female, without corolla ; 

 disk-flowers l-toothed, with a widely-winged tube, and pro- 



