Aster. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 79 
Has, Lion’s Mountain, Capetown, Ecklon! Namaqualand, A. Wyley! Modder- 
fontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! 8, Ricbechskasteel, Drege! Steendal, jy Se 1 Riv. 
apa? ane 2759 (2750). (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
A branching, hairy annual, 3-12 inches high. Leaves 9-15 lines long, 2~4 lines 
wide, the upper smaller, Pedunc. 2-4 inches long. Heads sianey abe the 
disc fertile. Invol. in 2 or 3 rows, the outer scales nearly as long as the inner. 
Variable in size, branching, and pubescence as are most annuals. Var. B seems to 
me scarcely worth separating even as a variety, much less generically and specifi- 
cally from Lessing’s plant. Drege’s distributed specimens of Charieis heterophylla 
partially belong to this. 
28, A. Namaquanus (Harv.); annual, with a thick simple root; stem 
branched from the base, glandularly pubescent and pilose ; leaves 
mostly alternate, oblongo- or obovato-lanceolate, tapering at base, obtuse 
or subacute, on both sides roughly hairy and glandular, papulose above, 
t-nerved ; peduncles terminal, glandular; invol. bi-seriate, the outer 
scales keeled, glandular, green, acute, the inner lanceolate with wide 
membranous edges and a green back, all barbellate ; achenes pubescent, 
2-ribbed, obovate, black. Zey.! 796. 
Has. Bitterfontein, Namaqualand, Zeyher / (Herb. Sd., Hk., D., Cap.) 
Seemingly an annual, but more robust and glandular than any of our other annual 
Asters. Rootstock 1-14 lines in diameter, woody, deeply descending. Stems 4-10 
inches high, erect, branched from the crown, closely leafy. Lys. very rough, the 
older ones almost echinated with the stumps of fallen hairs. Heads many-flowered ; 
invol. of about 20 scales. Disc partly sterile. This looks different from A. adfinis, 
but it is not easy to express the difference in words, except by saying that it is more 
robust, rough, and glandular. 
29. A. Pappei (Harv.); annual, root fibrous; stems simple or divided 
near the base into many ascending, leafy, appressedly-pubescent branches; 
leaves mostly opposite, close, much longer than the internodes, linear 
or spathulate, thickish, with recurved margins, gland-scabrid and ap- 
pressedly-pubescent and ciliate; pedunc. long, shortly and softly pubes- 
cent; inv. uniseriate, of about 20 linear, obtuse, scabrous and barbel- 
late scales; rays 18-20, revolute ; disc fl. fertile; achenes minutely 
hispidulous; pappus of many rigid, serrulate, fulvous bristles. 
Has. Sandy spots on the Camp-ground, Rondebosch, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Cap., D.) 
Root much branched. Main stem erect, 1-3 inches high, either simple or throw- 
ing out many opposite, spreading, ascending-erect, simple branches. Leafpairs }-4 
inch apart. Leaves }-1} inch long, 1-2 lines wide, mostly tapering to the base. 
Pubescence short and close-lying, rather stiff: surface minutely glandular and 
rough. Heads many-fi., showy, closely resembling those of Chariets heterophylla, 
with which this species was inadvertently mixed in Herb. Pappe, but from which it 
differs in gen. char. and in foliage. It appears to me to be a very distinct species, 
though hitherto overlooked, within an half-hour’s drive of Capetown. Rays appa- 
rently violet-purple. 
30. A. demissus (Harv.); annual, slender, diffusely branched, densely 
hairy with short, spreading hairs ; leaves opposite, distant, oval ors 
obovate-oblong (small), entire, densely hairy; peduncles long, pubescent ; 
invol. scales linear, acute, keeled, hairy at back ; “mature achenes 
nearly smooth on both sides.” —DC. Agatheea diffusa, DC. 1. c, 224. 
Has. Draakensteensbergen, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
A slender, hairy, spreading annual, of which I have only seen a single, imperfect 
specimen, Leaves 2-3 lines long, 1-14 line wide. 
