Aster. | COMPOSITZ (Haryv.) 75 
twigs puberulent ; leaves save the lowest alternate, scabrido-pulveru- 
lent, cuneate, narrowed at base, 3-5 toothed or lobed at the apex, the 
lobes obtuse ; pedune. terminal, glandularly puberulous ; invol.-scales 
linear-lanceolate, flattish, imbricate, in 3-4 rows ; ripe achenes sparsely 
pubescent. Aster scabridus, FE. Mey.! Agatheea scabrida, DO. 1. c, p. 225. 
Var. 8. brevifolius; old twigs spinescent ; lvs. shorter. Ag. brevifolia, DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Between Hexriviersberge and the Bokkeveld, Drege! 8. i 
Drege! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) re eee a 
A rather slender suffrutex, but rigid, 1-1} ft. high, with spreading branches. 
Leaves in var. a, 6-8 lines, in 8, 2-3 lines long. Pappus rigid, as long as the fl., 
discoloured. Disc fi. reddish upwards. This comes very near A. Dregei, B. den- 
tatus, from which, except by the pubescence it scarcely differs. 
13. A. hyssopifolius (Berg.! Cap. 287); shrubby, much branched ; 
branches pubescent or canous ; leaves linear or spathulate, flat, obtuse, 
thick, nerveless, spreading, strigoso-pubescent or canescent ; heads 
peduncled, the peduncle pubescent or canous; iny.-scales acute or sub- 
obtuse, pulverulent, or canous; achenes minutely pulverulent. Less. / 
Syn. 175. 
Var. a. hirtus; leaves thinly strigose, green. Aster hirtus, Thunb.! Cap. 688. 
F, angustifolia, a DC.! r: ed : Z 
Van. 8. rigidulus; leaves copiously strigose or rigidly pubescent, green. Felicia 
rigidula, DC.! l. ¢. 220. 
Var. y. linifolius; lvs. verylong(}—1 in.) tapering at base, rigidly pubese. Zey.! 2747. 
Var. 8. canescens; foliage silvery canescent, with rigid appressed hairs. F. 
rigidula, var. sub-canescens, DC.! 
Var. €. canus; all parts clothed with soft, dense, white hairs. Felicia cana, DC. 1. ¢. 
Var. ¢. Wallichii ; silvery canescent ; inv.-scales oblong-linear, obtuse! A. Wal- 
lichii, Harv. MS. 
Has. Var. a. Zwartland and Groenekloof, 7h./ Olifant’s R., Mundt and Maire. 
N. West regions, Drege! Springbokkeel, Zey./ 798, 3089. 8. Uitenhage and Albany, 
common. yy. Kommando Kraal, Zey.! 5. Grassrugg, Uit., #.Z./ Drege! Grahams- 
town, Burke/ e. Swellendam, £. Z. ¢. Cape, Dr. Wallich/ (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched, at length woody and rigid, small scrub, 8-15 inches high: 
branches erect or widely spreading. Pubescence very variable, but never quite 
absent ; sometimes very white and copious. Leaves commonly 4 inch long, varying 
from 3-9 or in , 12 lines long, 1-14 lines wide. Rays blue. Var. ¢. differs from 
the rest in its broader and much more obtuse invol.-scales. 
14? A. confusus (Harv.); “stem shrubby, branches rod-like, hairy- 
canescent ; leaves linear, flat, sub-obtuse, on both sides strigose-hairy ; 
heads solitary, on short peduncles ; invol. scales in 2-3 rows, the outer 
ones hairy.” DC. F. hirsuta, DC. 1. ¢. 220. 
Has. Beyond the Gariep, Burchell; Ceded Territory and Graaf Reynet, E. ¢ Z. ; 
Klaap river, Drege! 
- Leaves 5-6 lines long, erect, distributed along the whole branch, except a short, 
naked, peduncular extremity.”—DC. I have not seen Burchell’s or £. § Z.’3 speci- 
mens. Drege’s specimens (in Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) under this name may be thus 
described :—“ Shrubby, much-branched, flexuous or divaricate, the twigs glandularly 
pubescent and viseidulous; leaves narrow-linear, channelled, obtuse, erect or spreading, 
on both sides roughly setose or (in Herb. D.) setoso-ciliate; heads solitary, on short 
or long, glandular peduncles; inyol.scales in 2~3 rows, the outer minutely glandular.” 
These are very like some forms of A. muricatus, but differ in pubescence; I fear a 
very variable character. A specimen in Hb. Sd. from Drege, named “ F. imbricata,” 
agrees better with Decandolle’s F. hirsuta, but has long peduncles ! 
