Amellus.] COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 63 
long, jointed bristles ; leaves opposite or alternate, linear, very entire, 
on both sides roughly pubescent.” DC. 1. c. p. 214. 
Has. Cape. (Unknown to us.) 
5. A. strigosus (Less! Syn. 162); annual, diffuse, ascending or de- 
pressed, many branched from the crown, rough with spreading hairs ; 
leaves mostly alternate, roughly pubescent, Jinear, lanceolate or spathu- 
late, narrowed to the base, either entire, or unidentate at each side 
beyond the middle, or shortly 3-lobed ; paleze acuminate. 
Var. a. Thunbergii; leaves mostly entire, sometimes denticulate. Aster strigo- 
sus, Thunb. ! Cap. 687, ex pte. Amellus strigosus, DC., l. c., 214, 
Var. 8. Wildenovii; leaves mostly unidentate at each side. A. annuus, Willd. 
Sp. 3, 2215, DC., l.c. 215. Kaulfussia amelloides, Zey. ! Exsic. 99. Zey.! 785. 
Var. y. tridactylus; most of the leaves 3-lobed, the upper entire. A. tridactylus, 
DC.! le. ‘ 
Has. Groenekloof, Thunb.! Beyond the Gariep, Burchell. Gauritz R., E. and 
Z.! Drege! Bosjisveld, Swell., Dr. Pappe! Sneeweberg, A. Wyley/ 8. Zwartkop, 
R. Zeyher! Albany, T. W. Nieuweveld, and Beaufort, Drege/ -y. Sneeweberg, 
Drege! Zwartkops R. Zey! (Herb. Thunb., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A diffuse or often nearly prostrate annual, variable in size, and in the toothing of 
the leaves, but none of the above forms are constant to their assigned characters. 
Leaves 3-1-2 inches long, acute or obtuse, 1-3 lines wide. Zey! 2754 is intermediate 
between 8 and +. 
6. A. coilopodius (DC. 1. c. 214); “root subsimple ; stems numer- 
ous, herbaceous, terete, pubescent, the middle one erect, the lateral 
ascending ; leaves linear, very entire, appressedly pubescent; peduncles 
hollow and swollen under the heads; invol. scales appressed, pubescent.’ 
Has. Near the Gariep, Drege. (Unknown to us.) 
“ Stems 5-6 inches long. Leaves 1-14 inch long, a line wide. Rays many, blue. 
Chaff of recept. longer than the disc.” DC. The hollow peduncles, if any thing, 
seem to mark this species. 
7. A.microglossus (DC. 1. c. 215); annual, diffusely much branched, 
pilose with long, spreading hairs ; leaves linear-spathulate, subobtuse, 
narrowed at base, very entire, pubescent, invol.-scales infolded, acumi- 
nate, squarrose, hispid at back ; rays very small and narrow ; achenes 
of the ray pubescent, of the dise thick-edged, ciliate, central ones abortive. 
Has. Olifant’s R., and Zilverfontein, Little Namaqualand, Drege’ (Herb. D., 
Hik., Sd. 
Headly known by its very small ray-florets. Leaves 1-14 in. long, 14-3 lines 
wide, roughly pubescent. Heads on short branches, leafy nearly to the summit. 
Pappus very deciduous, shorter than the flowers ; corona persistent. 
8. A. nanus ae l.c. 215); annual, much branched from the base, 
depressed, in all parts rigidly and shortly appresso-pubescent, scabrid ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, entire; heads 
subsessile, subtended by 1-2 leaves, becoming lateral; invol.-scales 
lanceolate, the outer keeled and infolded ; rays ample, obtuse, twice as 
long as the involucre; palece of the recept. shorter than the flowers, few, 
club-shaped, torulose ; achenes si/ky-ciliate; pappus similar in disc and 
ray. 
