94 COMPOSIT (Harv.) | Chrysocoma. 
curved, erect, glabrous, or the younger parts sub-pubescent. Leaves 7-10 lines 
long, 4-line wide, obtuse or sub-acute, squarrose. Flowering branches 3-6 inches 
long, sparsely leafy, the apex bare of leaves. Heads 5-7 lines long. The leaves 
are occasionally sparsely ciliate. 
2. C. ciliata (Linn. Sp. 1177); shrubby, the twigs pubescent; leaves 
scattered, linear, obtuse or subacute, erect or erecto-patent, rigidly 
ciliate and setose beneath ; heads shortly pedunculate. Thunb. Cap. 627. 
DC. 1. c. 353. C. ciliaris, Willd. 
. Has. Cape, Thunberg, E. Z.! Kaus, near the Gariep, Drege! (Herb. Sd., Hk.) 
Similar to C. Coma-awrea, except for the pubescence, which though variable in 
amount is very copious, especially on the young parts. The branching is more 
diffuse, and flexuous ; the leaves more erect and the peduncles shorter. The peduncles 
in Drege’s specimen are nearly glabrous ; in Z. ¢ Z.’s, densely pubescent and much 
shorter. 
2. C. tenuifolia (Berg. Cap. 285); shrubby, glabrous or nearly so ; 
leaves scattered, linear-filiform, short, obtuse, spreading or squarrose, 
or erect with spreading points, quite entire ; fl. twigs leafy nearly or 
quite to the summit; heads 80-go-flowered. DC. 1. ¢. 353. @. cernua, 
Th. (ex pte.) Ch. microphylla, Thunb ! Cap. 626. Zey.! 2769. 
Var. 8. microcephala, leaves shorter (1-3-lines long) and more erect ; heads 
50-60-flowered. Ch. microcephala, DC. l.c. Zey! 2767, 2798. 
Has. Distr. of Worcester, Swell., Uit., Albany, and in Kaffraria and Natal. 
(Herb. Th. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Smaller in all parts than C. Coma-aurea, with narrower, less flat leaves, and smaller 
and more sessile heads, and } shorter flowers. Leaves 3—7-lines long, } line wide. 
I find at least 50 flowers in the heads of var. B., which grows in the same localities 
as the normal state, and which chiefly differs by its shorter leaves,—a very variable 
character. 
4. C. peduncularis (DC. 1. ¢. 353); shrubby, the young twigs sub- 
pubescent; leaves scattered or opposite, linear-filiform, short, obtuse, 
erect or squarrose, quite entire ; heads on longish, naked peduncles, about 
50-flowered. 
Has. Saldanha Bay, Namaqualand, £.Z./ Stormberg and Camiesberg, Drege / 
(Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
About the size of C. tenuifolia, var. B, with similar but more erect leaves. Pedune. 
1-2 inches long, thinly puberulous. 
5. C. longifolia (DC. lL. c. 354); shrubby or suffruticose, glabrous ; 
leaves scattered, 1-2 inches long, narrow-linear, obtuse, erect or erecto- 
patent, quite entire ; heads shortly pedunculate, about 50-flowered. 
Has. Near Ebenezer, Oliphant R., and Nieuvalei, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
Less branched than the preceding. Lvs, 1-2-2 inches long, } line wide. Pedunc. 
scarcely uncial. Drege’s specimens of var. 8, patula, DC., marked “a” seem to me 
to belong to C. tenurfolia ; those marked “ b,” to the present. Or perhaps this is an 
extravagant form of (. tenuifolia. 
6. C. oblongifolia (DC. 1. c. 354) ; shrubby, dwarf, divaricate ; lvs- 
ic-oblong, flat, spreading, rigidly ciliate, glabrous ; heads peduncu- 
late ; inv. scales linear-lanceolate, acute, imbricate, subscarious at mat- 
gin. C. ciliata, E. Mey. fide DC. 
Has. Between Hexrivier and the Bokkeveld, Drege / (Herb. Sond.) 
