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Depressed, densely leafy undershrubs. Leaves minute, linear, as in 

 Stoebe. Heads in tufts or spikes.— 7 species, dispersed. 



95. PHCENOCOMA, Don. 



Heads very many-flowered, monoecious, all the flowers tu- 

 bular, 5-toothed ; marginal female, in a single row ; central 

 male, with abortive stigmas. Involucre imbricate ; inner 

 scales lanceolate, radiating. Eeceptacle nude. Pappus in one 

 row, of many rough bristles ; in the female flowers variously 

 cohering, in the males club-shaped. — FL Cap. iii. -p. Ibl. 



P. prolifera, Don, the only species, is a much-branched, robust, small 

 shrub, with tomentose branches. Twigs very short, closely imbricated 

 with minute, scale-hke, bluntly ovate, glabrous leaves. Heads large, ter- 

 minal, solitary ; involucre imbricate in many rows, the scales woolly at 

 base ; outer short, appressed ; inner very long, radiating, acuminate, rosy- 

 purple. — Mountains in Stellenbosch, Worcester, and Caledon. 



96. PETALACTE, Don. 



Heads 10-20-flowered, monoecious, all the flowers tubular, 

 5-toothed ; marginal few (1-8) female, hidden among the in- 

 nermost involucral scales ; the rest male. Involucre imbri- 

 cate, the outer scales scarious, very hairy ; inner clawed, 

 with petaloid (white) radiating, obtuse lamina?. Eeceptacle 

 with marginal paleae, nude in centre. A chenes beakless, gla- 

 brous, the central abortive. Pappus in one row, of slender 

 bristles, those of the male flowers subplumose or clavate at 

 the apex. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 288. 



Small shrubs or halfshrubs, with woolly, entire, spathulate or obovate 

 leaves. Heads corymbose. — 2 species, both Western. 



97. ANAXETON, Cass. 



Heads few-flowered, monoecious, all the flowers tubular, 5- 

 toothed ; 1-2 female, the rest male. Involucral scales in many 

 rows, dry, loosely imbricate, the innermost clawed, spathulate, 

 with a roundish (white rosy or purple) lamina. Eeceptacle 

 without palese, woolly or glabrous. Style in the males quite 

 simple. Achenes sessile, cylindrical, beakless, the fertile gra- 

 nulated or pubescent. Pappus of a few scabrous or shortly 

 plumose bristles, shorter than the flower. — Fl. Cap. iii, p. 289. 



Small shrublets, erect or ascending. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, entire, 

 mucronate, with revolute margins. Heads in peduncled corymbs ; involu- 

 cral scales white or rosy-purple. — 6 species, all Western. 



98. ATHRIXIA, Ker. 



Heads many-flowci'ed, heterogamous ; ray-flowers in a single 

 row, ligulate or 2-ligulate, female ; disk-flowers bisexual, 5- 

 toothed, tubular. Involucre turbinate, the scales closely ini- 



