PLATE 355. 
Cassinia PHYLiCiEFOLiA (D.C.) Wood. (Fl. Cap. Vol III.; p. 204, sub. Rliyuea). 
Natural Order, Oompositae. 
A brandling iindershrub 2 to 3 feet high l)earing yellow flowers, with white 
tipped involncral scales. Stems and branches terete, canons, and with wliite 
woolly pubescence. Leaves alternate, decurrent between the nodes as narro"\v stem 
wings ; lanceolate, mncronate, entire, densely white tonientose lieneath, green and 
glabrous above, -|- to 1 inch long, to 4 lines wide. Inflorescence corymbose, 
the corymbs few flowered. Heads many flowered, heterogamons, discoid. Kecep- 
tacle Avith linear, deciduous palae between the flowers. Involucre in several rows, 
tlie 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 florets most numerous, perfect ; marginal ones filiform, female, few. Pappus 
in one row, bristle shaped, thickened at apex, scabrid. Anthers sagittate or 
shortly tailed. Style In-anches truncate. Achenes " obovate-oblong, beakless," 
minutel.y downy. 
Habitat: Natal, Drege ; Plant; Guienzins; Gerrard and McKen; Spring 
Clrange near Durban, ca 5C)0-S(>0 feet alt., April, Wood. {(\ Rerh 3528). Berea, 
May, Wood. 
In the Flora Capensis this plant api^ears as Bhynea phylicaefolia, Ymt 
the genus Rhynea has now heen included in Cassinm, and its only species, the one 
under notice, does not appear either in the Index Kewensis or in the supplement 
to that work now imder publication under Cassinia. I therefore retain the specific 
name. With the sole exception of the plant here figured all the meniljers of the 
genus are natives of Australia and New Zealand, four only I)eing found in the last 
named countr}^ and 13 in x^ustralia. The plant woidd appear at present only to 
be known from Natal, l)ut it is quite possible that it will he found also in some of 
the adjoining Colonies. The native name of the plant is i-Thiela. 
Fig. 1, outer involncral scale ; 2, inaer involncral scale; 3, female floret; 4, 
perfect floret ; 5, three stamens ; (i, upper portion of style with stigmas ; 7, 
palea ; 8, pappus bristle ; oil enlorged. 
