190 COMPOSIT# (Harv.) [Athanasia. 
2. A. incisa (Harv.); “glabrous, sub-glaucous ; some leaves linear, 
quite entire, some trifid, others pinnately 5-lobed, all the lobes with 
sub-revolute margins, mucronate; heads oblong, 4—5-flowered, crowded 
in a very dense corymb ; inv.-scales pubescent, appressed; pappus very 
short, scarcely membranous, ciliate”’ DC. Ath, pinnata, HZ. Mey. wm 
Coll. Drege, fide DC. Hymenolepis incisa, DC, 1. ¢. 85. 
oe Betw. Hexriver and Bokkeveld, on table land and stony hills, 3-4000 f. 
ege. 
Said to resemble A. pinnata, but to differ in the glabrous leaves, and minute pappus. 
3. A. schizolepis (Harv.); erect, glabrous; branches striate; leaves 
erect, linear, callous-mucronate, some quite entire, some on each side 
unidentate, some sparingly pinnatisect, the lobes short, mostly alternate; 
heads oblong, 4—5-fl., densely corymbose ; inv.-scales glabrous, mem- 
brane-edged ; pale lacerate; pappus of several, palmately-multifid, flat 
scales, Morysia, Sp. 84, Hb. Eckl, ! 
Has. Cape, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
A single specimen, without locality. Leaves scarcely inch long, } line diam., 
thickish, the lower mostly quite entire, the upper more or less inciso-dentate or 
pinnatisect, the lobes 1-2 lines long, erect, acute. Invol. 3-4 lines long, sub-com- 
pressed, turning blackish in drying. By its foliage this seems near A. incisa, but if 
DC.’s account of the pappus be correct, it cannot be the same. The pappus in our 
plant is more developed than in most of this section, and each scale is deeply cut 
into many narrow lobes, : 
4. A. indivisa (Harv.); glabrous, leaves linear-filiform, nearly terete, 
undivided, quite entire, sub-acute ; corymb compound, many-headed ; 
heads 3-4-fl.; inv.-seales glabrous, oblong, concave, obtuse ; pappus of 
several, unequal, narrow, minute, flat scales. Hymenolepis indivisa, Drege! 
Has. On the Zuureberg, betw. Enon and Driefontein, Drege! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
This has the habit, and nearly the foliage and inflorescence of A. fasiculata, for 
which it may readily be mistaken ; but has a pappus precisely like that of A. parvi- 
flora. It is either omitted by De Candolle or combined with his Hymenolepis incisa, 
which (by the char. given) seems to be different, and comes at least from a very 
different locality. Leaves 1-14 inch long, not 1 line diam., crowded. Heads as in 
A. parviflora. 
5. A. punctata (Harv.); virgate, erect, simple or branched ; branches 
terete, pubescent, robust; leaves densely crowded or tufted, sessile, ob- 
long or cuneate-oblong, sharply serrate or entire, midribbed, on both 
sides conspicuously gland-dotted, glabrous ; corymb compound, fasti- 
giate, the pedicels pubescent ; heads 20-25-flowered ; inv.-scales ob- 
long or ovato-lanceolate, loosely imbricated, glandular ; recept. flattish, 
with many narrow-linear pales ; pappus of several, unequal, broadish, 
flat, entire or toothed scales, Hymenolepis punetata, DO. l. ¢. 85. 
Has. Gauritz R., Burchell, 5055. Kromriver, Drege! Vanstaadens Mts., Uit., 
E. § Z.! Zey.! 289. Near Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton! Natal, 7. Cooper/ 1155- 
Maritzberg to Ladysmith, Gerr. ¢ McKen! 280. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) : 
243 f. , strong-growing, the young plants sub-simple, branched at the summit 
only. Leaves 3-3 inch long, 2-3 lines wide, mostly toothed, the upper ones often 
entire ; dots oblong, resinous. Corymbs 2-3 inches across. Heads 2-3 lines diam. 
Pappus of broadish scales. A. punctata, Th.! is a var. of A. capitata. The anthers 
are minutely produced at base, 
