201 LXX. CO:\ll'OSlT^E. 



Herbaceous, unarniod, perennial or rarely unnutil plants, steniless or caules- 

 cent. Leaves either crowded at the crown of the root or scattered along the 

 stem, variable in shape on the same plant, very rarely glabrous, commonly 

 white-tomentose beneath. Peduncle nude, 1-headed. Heads often of large 

 size, very showy ; tlie rays rarely white, usually yellow or orange, often dark 

 brown at base or eye-spotted, reflecting peacock colours ; disk-tlowers dark. 

 — 24 species, dispersed. 



135. CULLUMIA, R. Br. 



Heads radiate ; ray-flowers ligulate, neuter; disk-flowers 

 5-tootlied, bisexual. Involucral scales multiseriate, concrete 

 at base, the outer peetinate-spinous, similar to the leaves, 

 inner entire or fimbriate, pungent. Receptacle yqtj deeply 

 pitted, the walls of the pits raised, enclosing the achenes ; 

 apices setigerous. Achenes angular, glabrous, without pappus. 

 —Fl. Cap. iii. p. 480. 



Small shrubs or undci'shrubs. Branches leafy to the summit; leaves alter- 

 nate, margined with slender, spinous cilia ; heads terminal, sessile ; flowers 

 yellow. — 14 species, dispersed. 



136. HIRPICIUM, Cass. 



Heads radiate ; rays neuter ; disk-flowers 5-toothed, bi- 

 sexual. Involucral scales concrete at base, multiseriate. 

 Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Filaments smooth. Achenes 

 wingless, covered with long, soft hairs. Pappus 1-seriate, 

 coroniform, splitting into bristles. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 485. 



Much-branched dwarf-shrubs. Leaves sessile, linear, with revolute mar- 

 gins, white beneath. Heads terminal, solitary. — 2 species, both Western 

 and North- Westeim. 



137. STEPHANOCOMA, Less. . 



Character as in Stohoea, except : Pappus-scales 1-seriate, 

 very short, at first concrete into a crenate, cup -like crown, 

 afterwards partially separating. — Fl: Cap. iii. p. 485. 



-S". carduoides, Less., is a thistle-like herb, with many long, deeply pinna- 

 tifid or pinnate-parted, spinous-toothed, green, undulate radical leaves, and 

 decurrent stem leaves, shorter but similar. Heads discoid, subcorymbose 

 or panicled. Bristles of the receptacle very long and rigid. — Eastern 

 districts. 



138. STOBCEA, Thunb. 



Heads either discoid, all the flowers tubular and bisexual, or 

 radiate, the rays neuter. Involucral scales in many rows, 

 concrete at base, pungent-spiuous. Receptacle honeycombed, 

 the cells deep, nearly enclosing the achenes, cleft at the apex 

 into bristle-shaped timbrils. Stamens smooth. Achenes tur- 

 binate, furrowed, glabrous downy or villous. Pappus-scales in 

 1-2 rows, equal, or the alternate narrower, oval or oblong, 



