170 COMPOSIT (Harv.) | Hippia. 
purple. The common garden plants, Wormwood, Southernwood, and Tarragon are 
familiar examples of this genus.—Named from Artemis, the Grecian Diana. 
A. Afra (Jacq. Hort.Schoenbr. t.467) ; suffruticose, leaves becoming 
glabrous above, canescent beneath, interruptedly bi-pinnati-partite, the 
pinnules linear-acute, entire or toothed, with recurved margins, rachis 
pectinate with similar lobules, the petiole leaf-stipuled at base ; stipules 
simple or divided; heads racemoso-paniculate, secund, hemispherical, 
cernuous ; iny. scales oblong, obtuse, scarious, canescent at back, with 
a green medial line; corollas naked ; recept. conical, pilose! DC. Prodr. 
6, p. 106. A. pontica, Thunb.! Cap. 643. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Bowie! Thom! E. Z.! Drege! Gnadendal, Dr. Roser ! 
Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton! Bushman’s R., Natal, Gerr. § M‘K. 345 ; Keiskam- 
ma Hoek, and Baillie’s Grave, W.S. M. D’Urban! (Herb. Th., D., Hk.) 
Stems robust, 2-3 feet high, much branched and leafy, tomentose, rib-striate. 
Leaves 2-3 inches long, petioled, bipinnate, the pinnz 4-1 inch long, pinnules 3-5 
lines long, 4 line wide. Racemes in a much-branched, terminal panicle. Heads 
14-2 lines diameter. A. vestita, Wall! from India, is very near indeed to this, if it 
be permanently distinct. 
LXV. HIPPIA, Linn. 
Heads many-fi., discoid, heterogamous; ray-fl. in 1 row, female, with 
a filiform corolla continuous with the ovary ; disc-fl. male, 5-toothed. 
Recept. small, convex, naked. Jnvol.-scales sub-biseriate, elliptical or 
ovate, with a scarious margin, Achenes of ray, roundish, flattened, with 
marginal ribs or wings; of disc abortive. Pap.none. DC. Prodr,6, p.144- 
Herbs or suffrutices, all natives of S. Africa, with the odour of chamomile, Lvs, 
alternate, mostly pinnately lobed, rarely entire. Heads small, yellow, corymbose. 
Name in honour of some botanist ? 
Leaves pinnati-partite or deeply pinnatifid : ~ 
Shrubby, robust, with rodlike branches; Ivs. 2 inches long (1) frutescens. 
Slender, filiform, diffuse, flexuous ; lvs. }—{ inch long: 
Branches pubescent, villous near the top ... ... ... (2) gracilis, 
Branches very hairy, with long, spreading hairs ... (3) hirsuta. 
Leaves oblong, entire; stem slender, decumbent, hairy ... ... (4) integrifolia. 
1. H. frutescens (Linn. Mant.26r); suffruticose or shrubby; branches 
rodlike, densely pubescent ; leaves pectinato-pinnatipartite, the lobes in 
5-10 pairs, opposite, linear-oblong, or linear, mucronulate, veiny, pU- 
bescent, the lowest small, at the base of the petiole like a pair of sti- 
pules ; heads corymbose. DC.l. c. 144. Th.! Cap. 723. Tanacetum 
Jrutescens, Linn. Sp. 1183. 
Var. 8, Thunbergii; leaf-lobes narrow-linear, with revolute margins, 6-7-pair, 
acute or acuminate. Tanacetum suffruticosum, Th.! Cap. 541, ex pte. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg, &e.; Paarl, Drege! Cape Flats, W.H.H.; Gnadendal, Dr. 
Roser! Plettenberg’s Bay, Mundt.! (Herb, D., Hk., Sd.) 
Tall, straggling, not much branched ; the branches 12-18 inches long, leafy. Lvs. 
2-24 inches long, their lobes 5-8 lines long, 1-2 lines wide. Heads sometimes 1n & 
lax panicle of small corymbs, sometimes in a dense, branched corymb. Var. 8, which 
I have only seen in Hb. Thunberg, has leaf-lobes 6 lines long, not 4 line wide, much 
more rigid and pointed than in the normal state. 
2. H gracilis (Less.! Syn. 268); suffruticose, slender, diffuse; branches 
filiform, curved, pubescent, with scattered, longer hairs towards the 
