PLATE 343. 
Cunta nispipa, Bth and Hk. (FI. Cap. Vol. III., p. 183, sup Cotula.) 
Natural Order, Composita. 
A perennial plant with woody roots. Stems many, branched at base, 6 to 12 
inches or more long, often curved or ascending, pilose with long white hairs, leafy 
in the lower half, pedunculoid and glabrous upwards. Leaves, lower petiolate, the 
petiole flattened, pinnati-partite, the lobes callous tipped, thinly pilose like the 
stems, upper leaves simply pinnate, subsessile. Peduncles elongate, reaching to 6 
inches long, one headed, top-shaped, hollow and lined just under the flower head. 
Involucral scales, many, in two or three series, obtuse at apex with a dark coloured 
midvein, and a lacerate, hyaline border. Receptacle, convex, naked, papillose. 
Heads, homogamous, many flowered, flowers yellow, pappus none, corollas tubular, 
4-toothed, sessile, very narrowly winged, glandular on the wings and fringed at 
base, hooded at apex. Anthers blunt at base. Style arms, truncate; achenes com- 
pressed, glabrous. 
Habitat: Narau: Oliver’s Hoek Pass, 6-7000 feet alt, January, Wood, No. 
3610; Great Noodsberg, 2-3000 feet alt, April, Wood, 4127; near Van Reenen, 
5-6000 feet alt, February, Wood, No. 9279. 
A low growing plant with flower heads 4 to 9 lines diameter; usually found 
in stony places. ‘The lower leaves are from 1 to 23 inches long, becoming gradu- 
ally smaller upwards, the uppermost very small and linear; the style arms are very 
short and appear to be slit down the side as shown in the drawing. The genus 
Cenia includes 8 species, all natives of South Africa, but the one here described is 
so far as known to us, the only one found in Natal. The Flora Capensis enumerates 
4 species only, the other 4, including the one here described, will be found under 
Cotula Sect Discocotula; they are C. barbata, C. Thunbergii, C. sericea, and C. 
hispida. They have been removed from the genus Cotula chiefly on account of the 
peculiar top-shaped apices of the peduncles, which is a characteristic of the genus 
Cenia. 
Fig. 1, outer involucral scale; 2, inner involucral scale; 8, floret; 4, lobe 
of corolla; 5, two stamens; 6, portion of style and style arms; all enlarged. 
