Relhania
(named in honour of the Rev. Richard Relhan, who published, in 1785, the "Flora Cantabrigensis"). SYN. Michauxia (of Necker). Including Eclopes. ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about eighteen species of greenhouse shrubs or annual herbs, natives of South Africa. Flower-heads yellow, mediocre or rather large and solitary at the tips of the branches, or smaller and solitary at the tips of the branches, or smaller and solitary at the sides of the branches, or in terminal corymbs; involucre oblong, ovoid, or rather broadly campanulate, with many-seriate bracts; receptacle flat; achenes linear, glabrous or ciliated on the margins. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, rigid, narrow or small, channelled and concave above, keeled or many-nerved at back. Several species have been introduced, but are probably not now in cultivation. R. pungens, the only one which calls for description here, requires culture similar to that recommended for Athanasia (which see). R. pungens (prickly). fl.-heads yellow, terminal, sessile, solitary, more than 1in. in diameter; ray florets numerous, reddish down the middle of the back. September. l. acerose, rigid, sessile, asscending, scattered, rather wide-set, linear-subulate, about 2/3in. long, entire, roughened by short, hard, inclined bristles on the outside. Young branches grey-tomentose. 1820. A small, weak, branching shrub. (B. R. 587.)