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disk-flowers 5-tootlied, tubular, perfect. Involucral scales 

 imbricate in several rows, the inner scales longer, membranous, 

 arid. Eeceptacle without pale?e, either honeycombed or fim- 

 briate. Achenes beakless, sessile, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Pappus short, either a toothed crown or of several, short, se- 

 parate or connate scales. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 295. (Nestlera and 

 Polychaetia, Less.) 



Small, arid, rigid shrubs ; rarely biennials or annuals. Leaves alternate 

 or opposite, sessile, linear or oblong, entire, Flowers yellow. Heads 

 solitary, terminal or in the forks. — 11 species, dispersed. 



103. RELHANIA, L'Her. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, 

 ligulate ; disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothcd, bisexual, sometimes 

 sterile. Involucre ovate or cylindrical, the scales hard and dry, 

 closely imbricating. Eeceptacle flat, bearing palese between 

 the flowers. Achenes linear-prismatic, glabrous or pubescent, 

 slender, sometimes shortly beaked. Pappus either crown-like 

 and shortly-toothed or subentire ; or of many small, sharp 

 scales. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 298. (Eelhania, Eclopes, and Ehyn- 

 chopsidium, Auct.) 



Small rigid shrublets or rigid annuals, often gummy. Leaves alternate 

 or opposite, entire, small. Heads terminal, solitary or corymbose. Flowers 

 yellow. — 16 species, dispersed. 



104? OLIGODORA, DC. 



Heads 5-flowered, homogamous; flowers 5- toothed, tubular, 

 perfect. Involucre imbricate, subtrigonous, the scales ap- 

 pressed, the innermost with the margin clasping round the 

 outer achenes. Eeceptacle narrow, paleaceo-fimbrilliferous, 

 the scales folding round the achenes. Style-arms included, 

 obtuse and pilose at the apex. Anthers tailed ? Achenes 

 cylindrical, smooth. Pappus of 5 ovate, short, toothed scales. 

 —Fl. Cap. iii. p. 303. 



O. dentata, DC, is a little-known undershrub, from tlie Aderbcrg. 

 Leaves alternate, thickish, sessile, toothed, nuicronate. Heads corymbose. 



105. OSMITES, Linn. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; ray-flowers ligulate, female ; 

 disk-flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual. Involucre hemi- 

 spherical, the scales multiseriate, herbaceous, subequal. Ee- 

 ceptacle flat, bearing scarious pale?e. Anthers tailed. Achenes 

 sessile, beakless, ghibrous or downy, somewhat 4-sided, com- 

 pressed. Pappus of many short scales. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 303. 



Lf^ndershrubs, with altcmatc, crowded, sessile, oblong obovate or linear, 



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