Athanasia. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 191 
6. A. Dregeana (Harv.); stem erect ; branches terete, densely and 
softly hairy; leaves crowded, sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, on both 
sides softly hairy, midnerved, entire or denticulate; corymb compound, 
fastigiate, the pedicels hairy ; heads 20-25-fl. ; iny.-scales lanceolate, 
serrulate, loosely imbricated, glandular; recept. conical; pappus of 
about 8 tooth-like scales. LHymenolepis Dregeana, DC. l. ¢. 85. 
Has. Betw. the Omsamcaba and Omsamwubo, Drege/ (Herb. Sond.) 
I have only seen a small branch. Leaves }—} inch long, 3-4 lines wide, mostly 
entire. Whole plant save the involucres densely and softly hairy. 
7. A. leucoclada (Harv.); “branches terete, virgate, with a whitish, 
depressed, cobwebby covering ; axils without ramuli; leaves sessile, 
erect, coriaceous, subpunctate, glabrous, ovate, acute, sharply serrate ; 
corymb simple, dense, few-headed, the pedicels bracteolate, shorter than 
the subglobose, many-flowered fi.-head ; inv.-scales oblong, truncate 
(recept. conical) ; achenes rib-striate, crowned with a minute, scaly, 
many-toothed pappus.” DO—Hymenolepis leucoclada, DC. l. ¢. 86. 
Has. Betw. the Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, 1-2000 f., Drege. 
Unknown to me. 
8. A. coronopifolia (Harv.) ; erect ; branches virgate, terete, striate 
upwards, pubescent with whitish, short hairs ; leaves tufted, crowded, 
sessile, pinnati-partite, the younger hoary, the older glabrate, lobes in 
few pairs, short, linear, subacute ; corymb subsimple or not much 
branched, few-headed ; pedicels longer than the subglobose, many-fl. 
fl.-heads; inv.-scales lanceolate, serrulate, loosely imbricated; recept. 
conical ; achenes rib-striate, pappus of 8-10 toothlike scales. 
Has. Betw. Maritzburg and Ladysmith, Natal, Gerr. § M’K.! 279. (Hb. D.) 
Over 2 feet high, our specimen quite simple, leafy throughout and ending ina 
corymb of 20-25 heads. It seems to be a year’s shoot, from a thick woody crown, 
whose stems had been burned the previous year. Leaves about 3 inch long, the 
lobes 2-4 lines long, and not a line in diameter. The scales of the pappus are 
broadish. 
Sect. 2. HoLopnHytium. (Sp. 9). 
9. A. capitata (Linn. Sp. 1181); diffuse or ascending, more or less 
villous; leaves loosely imbricating, oval, oblong, obovate or subrotund, 
acute or obtuse, entire or sharply few-toothed, villous or glabrous, 
nerveless, thickish ; heads 2-7 at the ends of the leafy branches, sub- 
sessile or shortly pedicelled, many-fiowered ; invol. mostly very villous, 
campanulate, the outer scales deaflike, as long as the inner and as the 
disc, oblong or lance-oblong ; achenes sharply 5-angled and furrowed ; 
pappus of a few, fragile, jointed, short hairs. Thunb./ Cap. 635. Holo- 
phyllum capitatum, Less./ Syn. 262. DC.1.c. Also Hol. lanuginosum 
and H. scabrum, DC. 1. c. 
Var. §. glabrata; leaves subrotund, very obtuse, glabrous or nearly so. A. 
punctata, Berg. Cap. 238. Thunb.! 1. c. 
Has. Sea-shores near Capetown and Greenpoint, common. Eastern Districts, 
H. Hutton! (Herb. Th., D,, Sd., Hk.) 
A small, many-stemmed bush, 1-2 ft. high, not much branched. Leaves very 
yariable in shape and in pubescence, sometimes very densely clothed on both sides 
with long, soft hairs; occasionally sharply and deeply few-toothed, the apex often 
