196 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the peduncle hollow. Most of the examples have a dark centre 
with ray of a creamy-white, but examples with ray and dise both 
cream-coloured are common. he anthers of this species have 
tails furnished with straggling, glandular hairs. 
he ripe fruit of Berkheya seminivea Harv. & Sond. (895) has 
its feathered pappus arranged quite like the feathers of a shuttle- 
cock. elichrysum fulgidum Willd. var. monocephalum (741) the 
tips of the pappus-hairs are not barbed, but terminate in several 
longish, swollen, pointed processes. 
In Gazania Krebsiana Less. (756, 757) it is the uppermost layer 
of the involucre which almost exclusively in these species presses 
rmly in upon the ray-florets during the closure of the flower. T 
outer surface of the leaves of this row are shiny and varnished- 
looking; their edges incline to be membranous. They have a 
broad fleshy attachment at the base, and incline to fleshiness along 
the median line, where they are green, their edges being dark- 
coloured and their tips unwithered. 
opholena Randit 8. Moore (746) (see p. 183) grows among 
the rocks, to which situations it appears to be confined. It is very 
conspicuous when the seeds are ripe. The pappus is waved. The 
upper part of the corolla-tube is urceolated, and, as is usual in that 
condition, the anthers have no tails. 
series are of equal length. These hairs are simple in some species, 
jointed and moniliform in others. 
cies—the involucre is protective during 
tion of the fruit. When ripe it opens out, allowing the 
be dispersed by the wind. They recall the 
m adonense (879).—The hairs of the staminal beard are 
very beautiful ; they are tap 
tapered, moniliform, arranged as a brush, 
to the inner face of the filament. 
