156 OX SEEDLINGS 



oblong, cuneate at the base, with an obtuse apex, entire, glabrous, 

 obscurely nerved and dull greenish-grey above, bronzed beneath, with 

 distinct midrib and two long nerves running just within the margin, 

 thin. 



Leaves radical and cauline, alternate, with the principal nerves 

 of the radical leaves radiating from the base of the blade and in- 

 curved, hairy ; cauline small ; petiole semiterete, hairy. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Roundly cordate, cuspidate or mucronate, pubescent 

 and hispid, with bristly upcurved teeth at the margin and a pube- 

 scent petiole. 



Gerbera lanuginosa, Benth. (fig. 484). 

 Primary root normal, tapering, flexuose, branching. 

 Hypocotyl short, colourless, succulent, 2 mm. long. 

 Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, 8-10 mm. long, 4 mm. wide ; petiole 

 channelled above, convex beneath, 7 mm. 

 long. 



Leaves simple, radical, alternate, 

 glabrous above and felted with white 

 tomentum beneath, decurrent on the 

 petiole ; petioles dilated and sheathing at 

 the base, deeply channelled above, gla- 

 brous, except where the lamina is decur- 

 rent, woolly in the adult. 



No. 1. Roundish-rhomboid, cuneate 

 at the base, subrepand-denticulate, teeth 

 almost reduced to mucros. 



No. 2. Rotund-cordate, acute, repand- 

 'FIG 484 denticulate, with mucronate teeth. 



Gerbera ianuginosa. Ultimate leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, ob- 



long-obovate in outline, petiolate, gla- 



brescent above, felted beneath with white tomentum ; lateral lobes 

 alternate, short, rounded, becoming very much smaller towards the 

 base ; terminal one much the largest, oblong, obtuse, distantly and 

 mucronately dentate, frequently truncate at the base, very short and 

 broad ; petioles channelled above, woolly. 



Leuceria senecioides, Hook, et Am. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, finely pubescent, 1-1-5 mm. long, light 

 green or colourless. 



Cotyledons subrotund, emarginate, obtuse, fleshy, petiolate, 

 green, very indistinctly pinnatinerved ; petioles and margin with a 

 few short hairs, otherwise glabrous. 



