Aster. | COMPOSITA (Hary.) 77 
20. A. Caffrorum Gees, Syn. 179); shrubby, much branched, nearly 
glabrous, twigs densely leafy ; leaves lanceolate-linear, flat, one-nerved, 
much attenuated at base, mucronate-acuminate, glabrous, spreading, 
margined with prominent glands ; heads on short, scabrous peduncles, 
corymbulose at the ends of leafy twigs ; invol.-scales pluriseriate, flat, 
with a glandular-reddish midrib and minutely lacerate, scarious margins; 
achenes quite glabrous. Felicia Caffrorum, Nees. Ast. 214. DOC. l.c. 221. 
Has. Caffraria, Krebs, No. 178. (Herb. Sond.) 
Of this I have seen only the flowering twigs. Leaves nearly uncial, 14-2 lines 
wide, thinnish, pierced with pellucid dots, either quite entire or with 1-2 lateral 
teeth. Heads 16-20 fl., numerous, crowded round the ends of the twigs. 
21. A. retortus(DC.); “quite glabrous ; stem shrubby, the branches 
leafy to the summit ; leaves linear, acute, revolute-reflered with the 
nerve at base produced into a decurrent prominence ; outer invol. 
poales revolute-refleced, inner longer, erect.” DC. Felicia retorta, DC. 
~C. 2231, 
Has, Near Gnadendahl, Burchell. 7793. (Unknown to us.) 
22. A. imbricatus (DC.); “shrubby; branches densely covered 
with imbricating leaves, only at the extremity scarcely nude, one-head- 
ed; leaves linear, subacute, not tapering at base, thickish, with a 
prominent nerve, nearly trigonous, at the margins and sometimes on 
the midrib ciliate with bristles ; outer iny.-scales linear, hairy at back, 
the inner ones glabrous and scarious,” DC. fF. imbricata, DC. l. c. 221. 
Has. District of Worcester, Z. Z. (Unknown to us). 
** Lvs. 4 lines long, a line wide. Hds.nearly asin A.echinatus. Ach.glabrous.” DC. 
23. A. echinatus (Less.! Syn. 177); stem shrubby, branched, either 
hairy, thinly pilose, or quite glabrous; branches virgate, closely set 
with leaves throughout ; leaves broad-based, sessile, ovate-oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, pungent mucronate, spreading or deflexed, glabrous, 
often ciliato-serrate ; pedune. one or several, subterminal, corymbose, 
short, hairy, with scattered bractlike-leaves ; inv.-scales dentato-ciliate, 
acuminate, either glabrous at back or rough with toothlike-bristles. 
Pteronia echinata, Thunb.! Cap. 629. 
Var. a. echinata; stem hairy; leaves ciliato-serrate ; iny.-scales very rough 
dorsally. Felicia echinata, DC./ 1. c. 222. 
Var. 8. Paralia ; stem glabrous or thinly pilose ; lvs. entire-edged or sparingly 
ciliate ; inv.-scales dorsally either glabrous or sparinglyscabrous. Fel. Paralia, DC. 1.c. 
Has. Plettenburg Bay, Bowie! Mundt! Outenaqualand, Burchell, Drege. / 
Knysna, Pappe/ Port Elizabeth, Mrs. Holland, 135. 8. Uitenhage, Burchell, 
Albany, E£. Z.! Mrs. F. W. Barber / Pt. Elizabeth, Dr. Pappe! (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A stout, small shrub, 1-2 f. high, with crowded, simple, erect branches, densely 
leafy. Leaves 5-10 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, at length deflexed. Heads large ; 
rays either blue or white. Variable in pubescence. I find intermediate states con- 
24. A. reflexus (Linn. Sp. 1225); stem shrubby, fasciculately 
branched, glabrous or setose ; branches simple, flexuous, closely leafy 
throughout ; leaves broadbased, sessile, oblong or sublanceolate, strongly 
recurved, acute, glabrous, rigid, serrato-ciliate or entire; heads subsessile 
