72 coMposITz (Harv.) [ Aster. 
or glandular, with long peduncles, and small fl. heads ; lvs. very narrow, now and 
then ciliate. F. cotuloides, DO.! l. c. Zey.! 782. 
Var. y. glaber ; annual, subsimple, erect, nearly glabrous ; lvs. short, sparingly 
ciliate ; inv. scales broad, flat, obtuse, glabrous (or pilose). F. tenella, litt. a,in Hb. Drege. 
Var. 5. robustus; annual, erect, strong, much branched, copiously hispid and 
glandular, or nearly glabrous. Zey. 783. 
Var. e. longifolius (DC.) ; biennial or perennial (?), branches rooting at base, 
ascending or prostrate ; lvs. long or short, ciliate, otherwise glabrous. DC./ C. Wright, 
386, 395. Sieb. Fl. 253. 
Has. Damp spots throughout the westerndistricts, common. (Hb. D., Hk.,Sd.,Th.) 
Very variable in size and pubescence. Stems 2-14 inches high. Roots either 
threadlike and simple, or of many robust fibres, the prostrate portions of the branches 
rooting at base. Lvs. } inch to 2 inches long. Pubescence hairy or glandular and 
viscidulous. None of the above varieties are constant to the given characters. 
2. A. microspermus (DC.); annual, herbaceous, many stemmed ; 
stems diffuse, simple below, branched and corymbose, and glandularly 
pubescent near the summit; leaves linear, semiterete, obtuse, callous 
tipped, minutely glandular, (not ciliate) ; invol. scales linear, subacute, 
glandular ; achenes “glabrescent”? DC. Felicia microsperma, DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Near the Gariep, Drege / (Herb. Sond., Hook.) ‘ 
Perhaps a mere var. of A, tenellus, from which it differs chiefly in ramification. 
‘*Stems 8-12 inches long. Lys. 9-10 lines long, } line wide. Heads of A. tenellus, 
but corymbulose. Achenes sprinkled with a few appressed hairs.” DC, 
3. A. macrorhizus (Thunb. ! Cap. 687); root very thick and woody, 
elongate ; stems many, short, densely tufted, simple ; leaves alternate, 
very closely set, from broad-clasping bases linear-spathulate, much at- 
tenuated towards the base, entire, pilose ; heads peduncled ; invol. 
seales multiseriate, imbricate, flat, glanduloso-scaberulous, lanceolate- 
linear, acuminate; achenes reddish-brown, pilose. Less. Syn. 175. 
Felicia macrorhiza, DC. 1. c. 219. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg ! (Herb. Thunb.) 
Root § inch in diameter, 8-12 inches or more long, probably growing in fissures 
of mountain rocks. Stems 2-3 inches long, densely imbricated with leaves. Bases 
of the leaves ovate, glabrous, remaining as persistent scales after the fall of the 
lamina. Leaves about an inch long, 1-1} lines wide at top, thinly sprinkled with 
long, white hairs. Pappus sulphur-coloured. Achenes rather copiously furnished 
with long, straight hairs. A very distinct species. 
4. A. muricatus (Less.! Syn. 176); shrubby, erect, much branched, 
thinly hispid or glabrescent ; leaves linear-terete, furrowed above, 
spreading, obtuse, callous tipped, entire, either glabrous or sprinkled 
with hairs or ciliate with rigid bristles ; 
> axils often bearing leaf-tufts, 
heads peduncled; invol. scales acute, linear, minutely glandular or 
glabrous ; achenes puberulous. A. jilifolius, Zey./ 
Var. a. fascicularis (E. M.); leaves mostly tufted, glab: sparsely pilose. 
Felicia fascicularis, DC. 1. c. 220. Zey.! 790. : esac bs 
Mio 8. ciliatus; all the young leaves rigidly ciliate. Zey.! 793. 
AR. y. ehrysocomoides (Sond.) ; leaves mostly scattered, viscidulous-subglan- 
dular. Zey.! 797. Drege! 9096. : 
Has. Carroo places in Uitenhage, Albany, and Br. Caffraria, Krebs, E. Z.! 
Drege! &. B. Modder River Spruit, Burke and Zeyher) 7. Cape, E. 
Zey.t (Herb. Th., D, Hk, Sa)” Ep cements 
