PLATE 355. 
Cassinta PHYLICEFOLIA (D.C.) Wood. (Fl. Cap. Vol IIL; p. 204, sub. Rhynea). 
Natural Order, CowposiTak. 
A branching undershrub 2 to 3 feet high bearing yellow flowers, with white 
tipped involucral scales. Stems and branches terete, canous, and with white 
woolly pubescence. Leaves alternate, decurrent between the nodes as narrow stem 
wings ; lanceolate, mucronate, entire, densely white tomentose beneath, green and 
glabrous above, $ to 1 inch long, 1} to + lines wide. Inflorescence corymbose, 
the corymbs few flowered. Heads many flowered, heterogamous, discoid. Recep- 
tacle with linear, deciduous palae between the flowers. Involucre in several rows, 
the scales imbricate, densely woolly in lower portion, the inner scales longest, 
linear-oblong, creamy-white in upper portion, spreading. Florets from 15 to 25. 
Disk forets most numerous, perfect ; marginal ones filiform, female, few. Pappus 
in one row, bristle shaped, thickened at apex, scabrid. Anthers sagittate or 
shortly tailed. Style branches truncate. Achenes “ obovate-oblong, beakless,” 
minutely downy. 
Habitat: Nata, Drege; Plant; Guienzius; Gerrard and McKen; Spring 
Grange near Durban, ca 500-800 feet alt., April, Wood. (C. Herb 3528). Berea, 
May, Wood. 
In the Flora Capensis this plant appears as Rhynea phylicaefolia, DC, but 
the genus Rhynea has now been included in Cassinia, and its only species, the one 
under notice, does not appear either in the Index Kewensis or in the supplement 
to that work now under publication under Cassinia. I therefore retaiu the specific 
name. With the sole exception of the plant here figured all the members of the 
genus are natives of Australia and New Zealand, four only being found in the last 
named country and 13 in Australia. The plant would appear at present only to 
be known from Natal, but it is quite possible that it will be found also in some of 
the adjoining Colonies. The native name of the plant is i-Thiela. 
Fig. 1, outer involucral scale ; 2, immer involucral scale; 3, female floret; 4, 
perfect floret; 5, three stamens; 6, upper portion of style with stigmas; 7, 
palea; 8, pappus bristle ; a@// enlarged. 
