62 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [A mellus. 
Stem diffusely branched : peduncles hollow and 
swollen upwards ... ... ... .«. ... =. (6) coilopodius. 
Stem diffusely branched; pedune. solid, filiform (5) strigosus. 
Rays very small and narrow ; pubescence copious 
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A. Perennes ; Stem perennial, rigid, half-woody. (Sp. 1-3.) 
1. A. Lychnitis (Linn. Sp. 1276) ; stem suffruticose, erect or diffuse, 
alternately branched, the branches, foliage, and involucres minutely 
appresso-pubescent ; leaves alternate or opposite, either obovate, lanceo- 
late-oblong-obtuse, or linear, very entire. DC. /.c.214. Lam. ill. t. 682, 
J. 1, Jacq. coll. 5, t. 10. A. tenuifolius (with narrow leaves), Burm. DC. 
l.c. Zey.! 799. 
Var. 8, flosculosus (Benth.); heads discoid, homogamous. Henelia Capensis, 
Walp. Rep. 2, p. 974. (Herb. D.) 
Has. Cape flats, &c., Riebeckskasteel, Drege! Riet Valley, F. Z./ Half way to 
Stellenbosch, W. H. H.; Namaqualand, Zeyher! (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
__1-14 foot high, pale, much branched. Stem sometimes sparsely pilose, as well as 
silky. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 1-3 lines wide, rigidly and closely puberulous. Heads 
many-fi., 5—6 lines across. A. tenuifolia merely differs in its narrower, more an 
linear leaves, varying on the same bush. Var. 8. is in all respects identical wi 
the broad-leaved A. Lychnitis, minus the rays. 
2. A. hispidus (DC. Prodr. 5, 214); stem suffruticose at base, 
branched, erect, hispid with spreading bristles and hairs; leaves alter- 
nate, linear, subacute, very rough with rigid bristles and hairs, some 
quite entire, others with 1-2 small, lateral lobes or teeth; invol. scales 
densely setose at back, acuminate; heads radiate. Agathwa spathulata, 
Kze.! Pugil. 1, 9 (fide Hort. Hamb.). 
Var. f, angustissimus (DC.) ; slender, more densely covered with long, spread- 
ing hairs mixed with short ones ; leaves very narrow, and quite entire. 
Var. y, flosculosus ; leaves entire; heads discoid. A. flosculosus, DC. I. ¢. 
Has. Kamiesberg, 300-400 ft. and near the Gariep, Drege/ 8, Oliphants River, 
Drege! +. Little Namaqualand, and Gariep, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
_ Like A. Lychnitis, but readily known by its coarse, spreading pubescence, Var, 
¥ is a form precisely analogous to the flosculose var. of A. Lychnitis. A specimen 
of Agathea spathulata, Kze. in Herb. Sond., on the authority of the Bot. Gard. of — 
Hamburg, is an Amellus/ and seems to be a garden state of this species. 
3. A. scabridus (DC. 1. c. p. 214); “stem suffruticose, branched, 
sparingly setulose, with subappressed hairs ; leaves linear, acute, very 
entire, sprinkled on both sides and at the margin with subappressed, 
rigid bristles ; invol. scales acuminate, rough-hairy at back.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Zwellendam, Burchell; Karroo, £. Z. (Unknown to us.) 
“Stem rigid, slender. Branches not striated. Leaves 7 lines long, scarcely 4 
line wide. The heads when rubbed smell of aniseed, and are about half the size of 
those of A. Lychnitis, Rays pale. Achenes mostly compressed, with callous margin, — 
at length nearly calvous.” DC. ¢ 
B. Annui: Herbaceous, annual. (Sp. 4-8) 
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_4& A anisatus (Cass. Dict. 37. p. 489); “stem herbaceous, erect, 
simple, covered with minute, appressed pubescence, and sprinkled with ’ 
