Aster. | CoMPOSsIT (Hary.) 81 
Has. About Table and Devil’s Mountain, Ecklon’ Waterfall, on E. side of 
Devil’s Mt., W. H. H. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stems 2-6 inches long, closely leafy, ending in along, naked peduncle, 3-8 inches 
long, and sometimes having a single, slender bract in the middle. Leaves 14-2 in. 
long, $-} inch wide, drying very pale, and in that state translucent and netted with 
slender veins ; the base tapering into a cuneate, 3-nerved, imperfect petiole. DC. 
states the disc-fl. to be sterile; but some of the outer ones at least are fertile. IT 
venture to alter the specific name, because the term ‘‘ cymbalarioides” serves to 
mislead. The leaves may be much more justly compared to those of Silene Capensis. 
than to those of A. Cymbalarie. 
36. A. Natalensis (Harv.); herbaceous, nearly stemless, perennial ; 
radical leaves sub-rosulate, opposite, oblongo-lanceolate, denticulate, on 
both sides coarsely hairy ; flowering-stem scapelike, hirsute, one-headed, 
with several scattered linear-oblong or linear bracts (depauperated leaves); 
heads many-flowered ; invol.-scales biseriate, subequal, flat, one-nerved, 
lanceolate-linear, sub-acute, densely hairy, the inner membranous ; 
achenes (young) pubescent ; pappus copious, uniseriate, rough. Aga- 
thea Natalensis, Sch. B. in Walp. Rep. 2. p. 956. 
Has. Summit of the Tafelberg, Natal. Krauss/ No. 381. (Herb. Hook., D.) 
Root woody, cylindrical, premorse, with long, thickish fibres. Leaves crowded 
round the crown, 2-3} inches long, }-1 inch wide, subacute, shaggy with long, 
whitish hairs. Scape 3-6 inches high with 6 or 8 leafy bracts, }-1 inch long, and 
1-2 lines wide. Heads resembling those of A. alpinus. Pappus of about 20 sete. 
37. A. serratus (Thunb! Cap. 689); stem ascending, branched, 
leafy, glabrate or scaberulous ; leaves alternate, subamplexicaul, broad- 
based, oblong-linear, acute, 3-nerved, erecto-patent, glabrous, calloso- 
serrulate ; flowering branches from the upper axils, scabrous, with 2-3 
small, narrow leaves, one-headed ; invol.-scales linear, acuminate, his- 
pidulous ; ovaria sparingly hispidulous. Less/ Syn. p. 173. Agathwa 
serrata, Nees —DC., l. ce. 223. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
Root, according to Thunberg, ‘‘annual;” but I think this doubtful. Stem robust, 
a foot or more high, branched from the lower part, the branches long and simple, 
erect. Leaves }~1 inch apart, 1-14 inches long, 2—3 lines wide, sometimes sprinkled 
_ with rough, callous points, otherwise glabrous. I cannot understand why Lessing 
ee in a whorl:” they are not only all scattered, but rather distantly so. 
38. A. linifolius (Harv.); shrubby, scaberulous; leaves mostly alter- 
nate, linear-lanceolate, acute, thin (sub-pellucid veiny), setoso-serrulate, 
_with subreflexed margins, on both sides glabrous or nearly so; pedune. 
setose upwards ; invol.-scales sub-biseriate, pubescent and glandular, 
3-ribbed ; achenes hispidulous. Agathea Zeyheri, Nees.—DC. l. ¢. 224. 
Cineraria linifolia, Zey. MSS. 
Has. Uitenhage, Zeyher/ (Herb. Sond.) 
Of this I have only aa an imperfect specimen: it comes near A. serratus. Leaves 
10-15 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, tapering at base, when held to the light sub- 
pellucid between the closely-netted veins, but not ‘ pellucid-dotted” in the usual 
sense of that term. ; 
89. A. barbatus (Harv.); shrubby, divaricately much-branched ; 
twigs set with long bristles; leaves mostly opposite, crowded, linear- 
oblong, blunt, thick, on the under side and margin bearing long, stiff 
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