192 COMPOSITH (Harv.) [ Athanasia. 
recurved. Heads sometimes solitary, mostly several together, § lines long, 4 lines 
diam. FI. bright yellow ; invol. leaflike, green. 
Sect. 3. Ev-Araanasta, (Sp. 10-30), 
10. A. hirsuta (Th.! Cap. 655); branches virgate, densely tomentose, 
leaves crowded, erect, sessile, flat, dimorphous, the lower 3—5-forked or 
inciso-pinnatifid beyond the middle, the upper entire, linear-acute, the 
adult at length becoming glabrate on the under, but remaining densely 
tomentose on the upper surface, callous-mucronate; corymbs very much 
branched, dense, fastigiate; heads oblong, 12-15 fl.; invol. tomentose, 
the scales obtuse ; pappus of squarrose, swollen hairs. DOC. l. ¢. go. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Dr. Thom! (Herb. Thunb., Hook). 
Branches 1-13 ft. long, robust. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 1~14 line wide, the young 
ones densely woolly on both sides, the lowest simple for 2 or 3 of their length, thence 
shortly 3-5-lobed or pinnatifid, upper quite simple, tapering to a sharp point. Infl. 
very much branched, on woolly, multifid peduncles, round-topped. Heads 2 lines 
long, 1 line wide, 100 or 200 in each corymb. 
11. A. filiformis (Linn. f. Suppl. 361); much-branched, glabrous or 
tomentose ; leaves linear-semiterete, thickish, acute, crowded, glabrous 
or tomentose, some occasionally 3-forked; corymb compound, fastigiate, 
densely many-headed ; heads oblong, 1o—1 5-fl. ; inv. scales obleng, 
obtuse, appressed, shorter than the disc ; achenes sharply angled ; 
pappus of many squarrose, swollen hairs. Thunb. / Cap. 634. 
Var. a. glabra; whole plant glabrous or nearly so. A. filiformis, DC./ 1. c. 87. 
Burch. Cat. 4962. a 
Var. B. cinerea; more or less tomentose, old parts becoming glabrate. A. tomen- 
tosa, DC.! l. ¢. excl. syn. Thunb.! A. cinerea, Linn. f.? Suppl. 361. Burch. Cat. 6829. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Var. a. and 8. Kochman’s Kloof, Mundi! E.G Z.! Betwn. 
eee and Gauritz R., Drege! Pappe! Cypher Font., P. MacOwan. (Herb. Th., 
D., Sd., Hk.) 
1-2 feet high ormore. Leaves 1-1} inch long, not aline wide, spreading. Corymbs 
14-2 inches across, of 20-50 or more heads. Heads 2~3 lines long, 1 line diam. 
Both varieties occur together, and differ merely by the varying amount of tomentum, 
which is often very scanty on var. 8B. Thunberg’s ‘A. tomentosa’ is Morysia velutina, 
DC.! Palew, occasionally very few and slender, 
12, A. flexuosa (Thunb.! Cap. 634, non DC.) ; much-branched, gla- 
brous, flexuous ; leaves linear-flattish, mucronulate or obtuse, scattered 
or somewhat crowded; corymb slightly compound, fastigiate, loosely 
many-headed ; heads ovoid, 25-35-fl.; inv. scales appressed, oblong, 
obtuse, shorter than disc; achenes angled and furrowed; pappus of 
many jointed, swollen hairs. A. afinis, Sond. in Hb. 
Tlas. Cape, Thunberg! Olifant’s R. and Nieuweveld, Driefontein, Zeyher/ 843. 
(Herb. Sd., Hk.) 
With much of the habit of A. filiformis this has shorter, broader, and flatter leaves, 
and larger flower-heads. ‘Leaves scarcely uncial, 1 line wide. 
13. A. sertulifera (DC.! 1, c. 87); all parts tomentose ; leaves linear, 
flat or concave beneath, entire, mucronulate, velvetty-tomentose ; corymb 
simple, few-headed ; heads half as long as the pedicels, oval-oblong, 
25-fl.; iny. densely tomentose, the scales linear, obtuse, the outermost 
