Charieis. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 69 
_Of this I have only seen (in Herb. Sond.) what purports to be a leafy twig, 
without flowers; in this state not distinguishable from Osteospermum pare i 
De Candolle had seen only one imperfect specimen, 
XVI. CHARIEIS, Cass. 
Heads many-fl., radiate ; ray-fl. female, in one row ; disc-fl. herma- 
phrodite, 5-toothed, tubular-bellshaped. ecept. honey-combed. Jnvol.- 
scales bi-serial, the outer ones few, narrow, infolded and keeled, the 
inner membrane-edged, with a green keel. Style of the disc-fl. with 
flattened branches and deltoid stigmas. Achenes obovate, compressed, 
girt with a thickened rim ; those of the ray-/l. frequently empty and 
always without pappus. Pappus of the disc-/t. of feathered-bristles in 
asingle row. DC. Prodr. 5, p. 300. 
A small, pubescent annual, Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, membranous, 
attenuate at base. Peduncles terminal, leafless, 1-headed. Ray-fi. blue; disc either 
blue or yellow. The stigma has something the character of that of a Senecionea, 
but the habit and general character are those of the herbaceous Agathee or Amelli. 
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1. C. heterophylla (Cass.); DC.J.c. 300. Kaulfussia amelloides, } ww" 
Nees, Hort. Ber. t. 11. Leyssera pilosella, Th.! Cap. 691 (ex pte.) 
Has. Wet spots on the Cape Flats, and other places in the Western Districts, 
common. (Herb. Th. D., Sd., Hk.) , 
Stem erect or diffuse, branching, 4—6 inches high, hispid and scabrous. Leaves 
1-24 inches long, 3-5 lines wide, oblongo-lanceolate, tapering at base, hispid on 
both sides. Peduncles elongate, glandular and hispid. Disc either blue or yellow ; 
rays blue.—Cultivated in English gardens. 
XVII. ASTER, Linn. 
Heads many-fi. heterogamous; ray-/l. ligulate, female, in 1 row ; disc- 
jl. 5-toothed, perfect, rarely sterile. Recept. naked, areolate or honey- 
combed. Jnvol. scales imbricated, in few or several rows, appressed or 
loose. Achenes compressed. Pappus of many serrulated, caducous or 
subpersistent, uniform bristles, uniseriate (or pluriseriate?) Felicia, 
Munychia, Agathea, Bellidiastrum, Aster., Tripolium, DC. 
218, 222, 2239226, 253. S 
A vast cosmopolitan genus of annual or perennial herbs, suffrutices, or small 
shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or toothed, sessile or petiolate. Fi.- 
heads (in the Cape species) solitary, terminal, mostly peduncled. Disc yellow, very 
rarely purple ; rays blue, white, or pinkish, never yellow. Name from aster, a star ; 
alluding to the radiate fi.-heads. 
1. Felicia.—Inv. scales imbricated in 3 or more rows, the outer scales short, the 
next longer, the innermost longest. (Sp. 1-24.). 
A. Achenes more or less pubescent or hispidulous. (Sp. 1-18), 
(1) Herbaceous : annual or perennial. 
Annual or biennial: lvs. linear; branchest-headed (1) tenellus. 
Annual; lys. linear; branches corymbose at top (2) microspermus. 
Perennial; with a thick, woody root; lvs. spa- : 
thulate Spee, SET MER ied Seelnsiaeew ov (3) macrorhizus. 
(2) Shrubby or half-shrubby, branching ; erect or diffuse : : 
(2) Pappus white ; achenes thinly hispid or puberulous (rarely silky) : 
Heads discoid ; leaves linear-spathulate ... ... (15) discoideus. 
Heads radiate ;— as 
Leaves glabrous or ciliate : 
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