82 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Aster. 
bristles ; peduncles elongate, glandularly pubescent ; invol.-scales 
linear, acute, setose and barbato-ciliate, glandular; achenes hairy. 
Agathea barbata, DC. 1. c. 224. 
Has. Graaf Reynet, Drege/ Riv. Zonderende and Zwarteberg, Zey./ 2755+ 
(Herb. Hk., Sd.) ye 
A rigid, scrubby bush, about a foot high. Lys. 5-8 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, 
the longer ones tapering to the base. Pubescence very rigid, except on the pedune. 
and invol. 
40. A. elongatus (Thunb.! Cap. 688); suffruticose at base, diffusely 
much branched ; stem, branches, leaves, and peduncles hispid with 
long, spreading or deflexed, rigid hairs; leaves opposite or alternate, 
sessile, lanceolate-linear, linear or oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or ob- 
tuse, midribbed, membranous, quite entire, often glandular-pubescent ; 
pedune. long, naked ; invol.-scales biseriate, equal, the outer hispid and 
glandular, the inner glabrous or nearly so; achenes hispidulous. Less. / 
Syn. 170. Agathea hispida, DC. f lc. 224. 
Var. a, Thunbergii; leaves lanceolate-linear, subacute, mostly opposite. A. 
elongatus, Hb. Thunb.! Agathea hipida, DC. 1. c. 224. 
Var. 8. barbiger ; leaves broadly linear-oblong, obtuse, opposite. Ag. hispida, 
var. barbigera. DC. : 
Var. . erassifolius ; lys. opposite or alternate, thickish, obovate or spathulate. 
Var. 6. spathulefolius ; leaves mostly alternate, crowded, glandular and pilose, 
obovate or spathulate. 
Var. ¢. Pappei; leaves mostly alternate, lin.-lanceolate, acute, glandular and 
ciliato-pilose ; heads small. 
Var. ¢ Candollei ; leaves alternate, distant, ovate-oblong, acute. Agathaa elong- 
ata, DC. in Herb. Drege! (an sp. propr.?) 
_ Has. Zwartland and Saldanha Bay, Th.’ Cederberg, Drege / Stellenbosch Mt., 
W. H. H. B. near the Gariep, Drege! y. Albany and Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! 
5. Berg Riv., Zey./ 787. «. Steendahl, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe/ ¢. near the Gariep, 
Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Many-stemmed, often forming large spreading tufts, slender, ascending. Leaves 
in vars. a. and 8. mostly opposite ; in the other vars. alternate, variable in shape, 
texture, and indument; in 6. and ¢. mostly, but not constantly, well covered with 
minute, raised glands, mixed with the scanty or copious hairs, 3-1-1} inches long, 
1-3-4-5 lines wide, either broadbased (in ¢.) or usually tapering, Pedune. 5-10 
inches long. Ripe achenes black, sparsely bristled. Of the above varieties the 
last (¢) is the most distinct looking, but being only known to us by the fragments 
distributed by Drege, we cannot venture to separate it specifically : its distant and 
broad-based leaves are remarkable. Ri 
41, A. hirtus (Hary.); suffruticose, ascending, branched ; branches. 
elongate, leafy, terete, with minute powdery pubescence mixed with — 
rigid jointed bristles ; leaves oblong-linear, sessile, entire, with sub- 
revolute margin, rigidly ciliate on margin and nerve, the lowest opposite, 
the rest alternate ; peduncles terminal, long, glandularly pubescent and 
setose ; invol.-scales rough with swollen-jointed bristles, and glandular ; 
achenes puberulous. Agathea hirta, DO. 1. ¢. 224. 
Has. Breedriver, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Branches near the root, curving upwards, 12 inches long or more, Leaves 
6-8 lines long, not tapering at base, rigid in substance, and rough with very stiff, 
subulate, joi bristles. Pedunc. 6-10 i » The bristles 
ane ee ate unc, 6-10 inches long. Rays blue. 
