Aster.| COMPOSIT (Hary. 83 
42. A. strigosus (Licht. Herb.) ; shrubby, much branched, erect ; 
branches hirsute, densely leafy; leaves opposite, half-amplexicaul, erect, 
oblong or lanceolate-oblong, subacute, on both sides densely covered 
with long, rigid, white hairs ; pedune. elongate, glandular and scabrid ; 
inv.-scales 2-seriate, narrow-lanceolate, the outer scabrid and _ pilose, 
I-nerved ; pappus barbellate. Aster Charieis, Less. Syn. 171. Leyssera 
ovata, Thunb.! Cap. 692. Kaulfussia strigosa, Spr. f. suppl. 25. Agathea 
strigosa, Nees, DCU. 1. c. 225. 
Has. Roggeveld, Thunb., Lichtenstein, Olifant’s R., Mundt amd Maire. Sand- 
hills between Klein R. and Cape L’Agulhas, Z. Z./ Uitenhage, Zey.! (Hb. Sd , Th.!) 
A small bush, 1 or more feet high, the old branches bare and ash-coloured, the 
younger closely leafy. Foliage pale, almost canous with copious long hairs. Leaves 
6-8 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, thick, t-nerved, slightly recurved at the top. Pedune. 
3-6 inches long. Achenes hispidulous. Pappus almost plumose. This has nearly 
as much right to range with Mairea as with Aster. 
43. A. Ecklonis (Less.! Syn. 170); shrubby ; branches glandular 
and pilose, closely leafy; leaves mostly alternate (but crowded), nar- 
row-oblong, broad-based, sessile, subacute, entire, with revolute margins, 
above rough with prominent glands, dotted beneath, the young ones 
somewhat pilose; pedune. elongate, glandular ; invol.-scales sub-biseri- 
ate, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, glandular; achenes black, puberulous. 
Agathea Ecklonis, Nees. DC. l. ¢. 225. Cineraria trachyphylla, Spr. 
Syst. 3, 547: , 
Has. Between Kraderivier and Duyvenhoeks R., Ecklon’ (Herb. Sond.) 
44. A. Capensis (Less. Syn. 168); shrubby or suffruticose ; leaves 
mostly opposite, oblong-obovate or roundish-elliptical, obtuse, either 
sessile or tapering into a short, imperfect petiole, roughly hairy or 
pilose, with reflexed margins; inv. scales 1-nerved, hispid-strigose, lan- 
ceolate ; achenes minutely scaberulous. Agathea amelloides, DC. l. ¢. 
225. Oineraria amelloides, Linn. (ex pte.) Agathcea ceelestis, Cass. 
Var. B, rotundifolia ; root annual? (fide Thunb.). Aster rotundifolius, Thunb. ! 
Cap. 689. Less. Syn. 172. Agathea rotundifolia, Nees. DC. l. e. 223. 
Has. Table Mountain, Thunberg; Potberg, Ecki.; Vanstaadensberg, Zey./ 2758 ; 
Knysna, Dr. Pappe! Howison’s Poort, meu Mr. Hutton! Var. B, Cape, 
Thunberg! Zwartkops R., Zey./ 2757. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Often confounded, especially in gardens, with A. #thiopicus, but usually much 
more roughly hairy, and always distinguishable by its hispidulous achenes. Except 
in its reputed annual root, I cannot distinguish A. rotundifolius ; the specimens so- 
named in Herb. Thunb. appear to me to be certainly plants of the first year, but 
deubtfully annual. | 
45, A. Athiopicus (Burm.); shrubby, erect, variably pubescent, or » 
glandular or subglabrous; branches rodlike, closely leafy; leaves oppo- «.\~~ 
site or alternate, spreading or deflexed, subsessile, oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, mostly rigidly ciliate on margin and midrib (or glabrous), some- 
times thinly hispid on one or both sides; inv. scales 3-nerved, glandu- 
lar; achenes guite smooth and glossy. Less. Syn. p. 169. Agathwea micro- 
phylla, Cass. DC. 1. c. 225. Cineraria microphylla, Vahl. 
Var. 8, glandulosa ; branches and foliage glandular; leaves linear-oblong or lan- 
ceolate, scabrous. 
Has. Platteklip, Table Mt., Ecklon, &c.; Simon’s Bay, C. Wright, 324; Caledon, 
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