Aster.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 73 
A small, slender shrublet, 3-8 inches high. Leaves 3-8 lines long, very slender, 
conspicuously channelled. Pedunc. 2-3 inches long, glabrous or puberulous, Inv. 
scales flattish. Variable chiefly in its pubescence. 
5. A. Bowiei (Harv.); suffruticose, glabrous, flexuous ; branches 
closely leafy; leaves filiform-subulate, channelled, very long, acute (the 
younger bristle-pointed), quite entire; peduncles elongate, quite gla- 
brous; invol. scales 3-seriate, imbricate, flat, lanceolate, acuminate, 
1-nerved ; achenes densely silky; pappus of many, sub-persistent, straight, 
scaberulous bristles. 
Has. Cape, Bowie. (Herb. Hk.) 
Near A. simulans, but with much longer lvs., densely silky achenes, and persistent, 
copious, and straight pappus-bristles. Lvs. 14-2 inches long, } line wide, involute, 
indistinctly nerved at base, tapering to a setaceous point. Peduncles 4 inches long. 
Head many-flowered. Of this I have only seen a solitary specimen in Hb. Hk. 
6. A. simulans (Harv.); shrubby, erect, glabrous (save the peduncles) ; 
branches rod-like, closely leafy; lvs. linear-subulate, channelled, callous- 
tipped, acute, quite entire ; peduncles thinly pubescent; involuc. scales 
pluriseriate, imbricate, flat, lanceolate-linear, acute, 1-nerved, ciliolate ; 
achenes puberulous ; pappus of many slender, subflexuous, deciduous, 
rough bristles. 
Has. Berg River, Zey./ Sept. (Herb. Sond.) 
One to two feet high, slender, but woody. Leaves an inch or rather more long, 
erect, closely overlapping, not half a line in diameter, broad-based. Peduncles 
2-3 inches long. Heads rather small. Almost identical in aspect with Gymno- 
stephium angustifolium, but differing in pappus and involucre. 
7. A. angustifolius (Jacq. Schoenbr. t. 370); “shrubby, erect ; 
branches slender, flexuous, glabrous, the younger leafy ; leaves mem- 
branous, scattered, sessile, obovate-lanceolate, linear, acuminate, smooth- 
edged, tapering at base, 1-nerved, at length quite glabrous; heads 
pedunculate; invol. pluriseriate, scales flat, glabrous, fimbriate; achenes 
puberulous.” Less. Syn. p.178. F. angustifolia, Nees. DC. l.c. 220. 
Has. Cultivated from Cape seeds. : 
One to two feet high. Leaves 6-12 lines long, 4-1 line wide. Heads with blue 
rays. Said by Lessing to be scarcely distinguishable from A. hyssopifolius, save by 
its glabrous leaves, slender branches, and leaves without leaf-tufts. It is probably 
@ mere garden variety. 
8. A. serrulatus (Harv.); suffruticose or shrubby, much-branched ; 
branches glabrous or pubescent; leaves lanceolate-linear, flat or concave, 
acute, 1-nerved or nearly nerveless, calloso-serrulate or rough-edged, the 
younger ciliate (sometimes setose), the adult glabrous; peduncles elon- 
gate, pubescent near the summit; invol. scales pluriseriate, flat, lanceo- 
late, glabrous, ciliolate; achenes puberulous. 
Var. a. polyphyllus; a rigid, much-branched, fastigiate shrub ; leaves crowded, 
3-5 lines long, concave, with indistinct nerve. Zey./ 2749, 2729.° 
Var. 8. densus; similar to a, but more glabrous, with distinctly nerved leaves, 
3-4 lines long. Zey./ 791. 
Var. y. glaber; slender, suffruticose, nearly glabrous ; leaves less closely set, 
6-8 lines long. Felicia angustifolia, B. glabra, DC. 1. c, 220. 
Var, 3. setosus; suffruticose, pilose ; leaves setoso-ciliate, the younger ones also 
pilose. Zey./ 2729, b. 
