74 : COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Aster’. 
Has. Vars. 8 and 8, Rietkuil and Grootvadersbosch, Zey./ 8. Wolvekop, Burke 
and Zey.! a Zeederberg and Stormberg, Drege/ 8. Vanstaadensberg, Zey./ (Herb. 
D., Hk., Sd.) 
When fully grown this is a woody and scrubby, much-branched bush, 10-15 inches 
(or more) high. Leaves 3-8 lines long, more or less attenuated to the base, the 
adult (save in var. 8.) nearly glabrous; but even then the stumps of the cilia remain 
as serratures: by which character this seems to differ from A. angustifolius. 
9, A. Zeyheri (Less. Syn. 177); shrubby, flexuous; branches pilose, 
becoming glabrous ; leaves oblong-cuneate or obovate, flat, one-nerved, 
obtuse, glabrous, closely and rigidly ciliate; heads on long, glabrous or 
pilose peduncles; inyol. scales glabrous, flat, linear-lanceolate, subacute ; 
achenes thinly pubescent. 7. Zeyheri, Nees, DC. l.c. p.220. Zey./ 27596. 
Has. Dry places near the Commandokraal, Zondag river, and on Vanstaadens- 
bergen, Zey.! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.) 
A small, scrubby plant, 6-8 inches high, rigid and irregularly branched, the adult 
parts becoming glabrous. Leaves crowded, 4-1 inch long, 2-4 lines wide, greatly 
narrowed to the base, and fringed with short, rigid bristles. Peduncles 3-4 inches 
long, slender. Invol. 3-seriate. 
10, A. erigeroides (Harv.); shrubby; branches virgate, appressedly 
pubescent, leafy ; leaves obovate, elliptic-oblong or broadly linear, ob- 
tuse, mostly 3-nerved, narrowed to the base, sparsely hispid becoming 
glabrous, serrulato-ciliolate; axils bearing leaf-tufts; lateral twigs naked 
toward the summit, ending in a fl.-head, forming a thyrsus or panicle 
of fl.-heads ; invol.-scales flattish, acute, ciliate, glabrescent ; achenes 
pubescent, narrow-cuneate, Felicia erigeroides, DU. l. c. 219. 
Var. 8. Schultesii (Harv.); more branched, less virgate ; leaves narrower, 
tapering much to the base. F. Nutalensis, Sch. Bip. Walp. Rep. 2. 956. 
Var. y. trimervius; less virgate, more ramulous ; the twigs longer, bearing 2-3 
heads ; leaves larger and more obovate. Zey. 2740. F. trinervia, Turcz! Bull. 
Mose. 1851. vol. 24. 2. p. 60. 
Has. Near Natal, both a and 8., Drege! Krauss! Sanderson! Ger. § McK. 274. 
y. Uitenhage, Zeyher! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
One to two feet high, robust, becoming quite woody. Branches 12-18 inches 
long, rodlike, closely leafy, bearing toward the summit many short, half-leafy 
flowering twigs. Leaves #-14 inch long, 2-4 lines wide: the lateral nerves not 
always apparent, but often visible even in the narrowest leaves of var. 8. The 
ray-fl. are pink or light purple. 
11. A. Dregei (Harv.); shrubby, erect, branched; the branches, 
leaves and peduncles closely and minutely velvetty-pubescent ; the branches 
and peduncles angularly striate ; leaves oblong-spathulate, obtuse, nar- 
rowed much to the base, entire or nearly so, one-nerved ; invol.-scales 
flattish, linear, acute, fringed and bearded above ; achenes pubescent 
and ciliate. Zey.! 795. Fel. Dregei, DC. l. c. 221. 
Van. f. dentata (DC.) ; lvs. obovate, obtuse, sharply 3-5 toothed at the summit. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege Heerelogement, Zey.! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
One to two feet high. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 2 lines wide, often with axillary 
leaf-tufts. Peduncles 3-4 inches long. Disc fl. yellow “ changing to purple”; ray 
blue. The pubescence is remarkably close and knappy, formed of minute, > 
rs it this speci A. erigeroides, but is much 
12. A. seabridus (E. Mey. !) 3 suffruticose, the old stems glabrate, 
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