Athanasia.| COMPOSIT (Haryv.) 195 
corymbs simple, many-headed ; heads on hairy, bracteate pedicels, sub- 
globose, many-fl.; inv. hairy, the outer scales lanceolate, acute, the 
inner oblong-lanceolate, bearded at the membranous apex. DC./ l. c. 
88. A. canescens, Thunb.! Cap. 634. 
Has. Picketberg, Thunberg! Drege! Betw. Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, 
Drege! Bergvalley, #. Z./ Klipfontein, Zey.’ 846. (Herb, Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Densely and softly hairy, with longish hairs. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 2-3 lines 
wide, the margins slightly revolute. Heads 3 lines diameter, hairy. 
22. A. crenata (Linn. Sp. 1180); “branches virgate, hairy, sub- 
striate ; leaves oblong, acute, glabrescent, entire ; corymb panicled, 
branched ; heads globose, many-fl.; inv. glabrous, the outer scales 
lanceolate, acute, middle oblong, obtuse, innermost produced into a 
scarious, roundish, serrato-fimbriate appendage.” DC. l. c. 88. 
Has. Cape. 
Not in Herb. Thunb, Unknown to us. Possibly A. trifwreata, var. glabra? 
23, A. scabra (Thunb.! Cap. 634); rigid, branched and ramulous ; 
twigs short, pilose, closely leafy ; leaves loosely imbricating, short, 
ovate-oblong, acute, thick and fleshy (shrinking and wrinkled when 
dry), glabrous, nerveless ; heads solitary, terminal, sessile, many-flower- 
ed ; invol. glabrous, ovate-oblong, the scales appressed, the outer short, 
inner successively longer, oblong, obtuse, horny, the innermost with 
membranous, lacerate tips ; paleze laverate ; achenes . . .?; pappus of 
a few, fragile, jointed, short hairs. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ (Herb. Thunb.) 
A much branched, small bush, with leaves not unlike those of A. rugulosa, E. 
Mey., and sessile involucres. Leaves 2-3 lines long, 1-14 line wide, rugulose when 
dry (“‘ rugoso-scabrida,” Th.), but probably quite smooth when living. Heads 4 lines 
long, 24—3 lines wide, invol. glossy. 
24. A. pachycephala (DC. 1. c. 88); “branches glabrous ; twigs, 
leaves, peduncles and involucres hairy or somewhat woolly; leaves 
crowded, erect, oblong-linear, entire, or oblong, or cuneate-incised, the 
lobes 3-5, obtuse ; uppermost leaves linear, acute, distant ; heads soli- 
tary on the ends of the short, sub-corymbose twigs, globose, nearly 100- 
flowered.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Zeederberg, Drege. 
Unknown to us. Strongly marked by its large fl. heads. 
25. A. trifurcata (Linn. Sp. 1181); stellulato-tomentulose or gla- 
brescent or quite glabrous ; leaves oblongo- or obovato-cuneate, much 
narrowed at base, rarely entire, commonly 3—5-toothed or lobed (very 
variable in degree of incision), the teeth or lobes mucronulate, mostly 
stellulate on both sides; corymb simple or sub-simple, racemulose, 
fastigiate ; heads on long, naked or 1-2 bracteolate pedicels, many-fl. ; 
invol. globose, glabrous or nearly so, the outer scales acute, medial 
obtuse, innermost mostly scarious and lacerate at margin; pappus of 
many swollen hairs. 
Var. a. Linnei; densely stellulate ; lvs. broadish, sharply 3-5-toothed or incised. 
A. trifureata, DC./ 1. ¢. 89. Thunb.! Cap. 635 (ex pte.) A. scariosa, DC./ 1. c. 88, 
Zey.! 2828. 
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