Mairea.| COMPOSIT (Harv.) 65 
hairy beneath ; peduncle terminal, sometimes branched, very hairy, with 
2-3 distant, linear bracts; invol. scales hairy. 
Has. Swellendam, in mts. near Puspas valley, FZ. Z./ Zey./ 3071. (Hb. D., Sd.) 
Differs from M. crenata in its longish, sometimes branching stem, and copious 
rusty pubescence, less thick leaves, and rather smaller flowers. 
3. M. perezioides (Nees, Ast. 249); czespitose, scarcely caulescent ; 
leaves subradical, linear-spathulate, acute, with recurved margins, sub- 
entire or here and there toothed, pilose ; pedune. scapelike, with a few 
scattered, depauperated leaves on its lower half, densely glandular- 
pubescent ; invol.-scales rather longer than the disc, pluriseriate, linear- 
acute, hairy and glandular. DC. /. c.217. Aster perezioides, Less! Syn. 
167. Leyssera pilosella, Thunb! Cap. and Herb. ex pte. 
Has. Groenekloof and Zwartland, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
Stems densely tufted, 1-2 inches long, naked below, densely leafy at the extremity. 
Leaves 2-2} inches long, 2-3 lines wide, strongly midribbed beneath. Pedune. 
4-6 inches long ; its leaves 3 inch long, 1 line wide ; its pubescence copious, of 
gland-tipped, short hairs. Rays purple. Pappus feathery. Achenes black, hairy 
on the face, margined and ciliate ——A distinctly marked species, which I have only 
seen in Herb. Thunb. <A very imperfect specimen from Mundt, in Hb. Hooker, 
comes near this, but is more rigid and scabrous, with smaller flewer-heads ; it may 
however be a mere variety. 
Sect. 2, ZYRPHELIS: Disc-flowers sterile, rays blue or white. (Sp. 4~9.) 
4. M. Burchellii (DC. 1. c. 218); “nearly stemless, radical leaves 
oblong-linear, glabrous, rigid, very entire, tapering at base and fringed 
with hairs; stems nearly leafless, sparingly branched, somewhat hairy ; 
invol.-scales acuminate, ciliate.” DC. (Disc-fi. sterile). 
Has. Eastern districts, Burchell, No. 8200. (Unknown to us.) 
** Leaves 4-5 inches long, below with a subprominent nerve, above half infolded. 
Stems rather shorter than the leaves. Invol. in two rows. Achenes subcompressed, 
very villous, narrowed at base.” DC. 
5. M. taxifolia (DC. 1. ¢. 218); stem half-shrubby, erect, branched ; 
leaves linear, acute, rigidly ciliate to the middle or beyond it; pedunce. 
softly hairy ; invol.-scales acuminate; achenes guite glabrous or hispi- 
dulous. Aster taxifolius, Linn.—Leyssera ciliata, Th! Cap. 690. Aster 
filiformis, Eckl. 
Var. 8. pinifolia; achenes sparingly and minutely hispidulous. M. pinifolia, 
Sch. B. MM. lasiocarpa, Drege! in Herb. Hook. 
Has. On and about Table Mt., common: §, with the common variety. (Herb. 
Th., D., Sd., Hk., &c.) 
A slender suffrutex, 6-15 inches high, much-branched ; branches erect, subsimple, 
leafy for ? of their length. Leaves 4-1 inch long, 4 line wide. Disc 3-4 lines 
across ; rays 4 lines long, purple. The stem is sometimes decumbent, with ascend- 
ing branches and falcato-secund leaves. fe 
6. M. lasiocarpa. (DC. 1. c.); stem half-shrubby, erect, branched ; 
leaves linear, acute, rigidly ciliate; pedunc. glandularly bristly ; invol. 
scales acuminate ; achenes densely silky. 
a gle Caledon, £. Z./ Witsenberg, and Zwarteberg, Zeyher! 2751. (Herb., 
., Cap. 
Very ibe a . taxifolia, but easily known by its silky achenes. Drege’s specimens 
distributed under this name belong (so far as I have seen) to M. taxifolia 8B. The 
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