194 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Athanasia. 
18, A. oligocephala (DC. in Hb. Eckl.); variably tomentulose, or 
hairy, or glabrous ; leaves linear, thickish, subacute or obtuse, quite 
entire or some 3-toothed or trifid; corymb simple, few-headed (or heads 
solitary); heads on longish pedicels, with or without bracts, ovoid-glo- 
bose, many-flowered; inv. scales appressed, oblong, obtuse glabrous or 
villous, the inner ones scarious and lacerate at the apex ; pappus of 
many swollen hairs. A. fleruosa, DC. 1.c. 87, excl. syn. Thunb. A, ebrac- 
teata, EH. Mey! DC. p. 86. 
Var. a, glabra; glabrous, or the young parts pilose. A. flexuosa, DC. 
Var. 8. adenatha; twigs and invol. sub-persistently villous; cor. lobes with 1-2 
reddish glands. (Hb. Eckl.) 
Var. y. brachypoda (DC.); lvs. and twigs thinly tomentulose; pedicels short, 
ebracteate. 
Var. 5, araneosa (DC.); ‘‘Ivs. glabrous; twigs cobwebby, at length glabrous ; 
pedicels twice as long as the heads, densely and shortly hairy.” DC.l.c¢. 
Van. ec. hirsuta (2. M.); twigs densely clothed with long hairs; young leaves 
somewhat hairy, adult glabrous; pedicels hairy, twice as long as the heads. 
Has. Cape, Hb. Lambert (DC.) K1. Draakenstein, and the Giftberg, Xc., Drege! 
— aay — Pappe! Zwartland, Wallich/ Predikstoel, Zey./ 845. (Herb. 
A virgate shrub, 1-3 f. high, very variable in pubescence. Leaves }-1 inch long, 
scarcely 1 line wide, rather closely set. Heads sometimes solitary, or 2—3-8-10 in 
- alaxcorymb. This does not occur in Hb. Thunb., whose ‘ A. flexuosa’ is very dif- 
ferent. I cannot keep A. ebracteata apart by any persistent character. 
19. A. glabrescens (DC.! 1. c. 88) ; twigs and young leaves stellulato- 
‘tomentulose, older glabrate ; leaves linear, mucronulate, quite entire; 
corymb simple, fastigiate, 1o~20-headed, pedicels with 1-3 bracts, 
elongate ; heads obovate, many-flowered ; inv.-scales oblong, obtuse, 
powdery-stellulate, quite entire, outer subacute; stamens gland-tipped ; 
pappus of swollen hairs. 
Has. Olifant’s River, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
Similar in foliage to A. filiformis, but with a different inflorescence, and much 
nearer A. oligocephala. Heads 40-50-fl. Leaves 14 inch long, scarcely a line wide, 
curved or squarrose. 
20. A. eriopoda (DC. 1. c. 89) ; slender, virgate, young twigs and 
pedicels stellato-pubescent, leaves short, linear, subacute, entire or om 
each side 1-2-lobed, convex beneath and (when dry) rugulose, the 
younger ones stellate-pubescent above ; corymb simple, few-headed 5 
pedicels naked or few-bracteolate ; heads many-fl., globose ; inv. pubes- 
cent, the scales broadly ovate, acute, the inner scarious; pappus of many 
swollen hairs. A. microphylla, Hb. Drege ! (in pluribus herbariis ). 
Has. Ezelsbank, Zeederbergen, 3-4000 f., Drege! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
1-14 ft. high, erect, with a few erect branches and twigs. Pubescence mostly 
deciduous. Leaves 2-4 lines long, not a line wide, simple and 2-3-lobed on the 
same twig. Heads solitary or 3-5 in a corymb, the outer scales broader and more 
aente than in most. A much more slender plant than A. oligocephala, with different 
in -scales, 
21. A. pubescens (Linn. Sp, 1182); branches densely and softly 
hairy ; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, sessile, mucronulate, entire (oF 
tridentate), on both sides softly hairy, at length becoming sub-glabrous ; 
