Athanasia.] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 197 
29. A. crithmifolia (Linn. Sp. 1181); adult leaves glabrous, 3-5-fid to 
the middle (rarely shortly trifid or entire !), the lobes linear, elongate, 
calloso-mucronate ; corymb compound (sometimes panicled), many- 
headed, fastigiate ; the pedicels bracteolate; heads ovoid, many-fl.; inv. 
scales glabrous, in many rows, narrow, acute or acuminate, rigid, entire ; 
pappus of many swollen hairs. Thunb./ Cap. 636. Burm. Afr. t. 69, f. 1. 
DC. lc. 89. Steb. Cap. 418. 
Has. Common round Capetown and in the Western Districts. Berg R., Drege / 
Winterhoek, Tulbagh, Pappe/ (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A densely leafy shrub, 2-3 feet high, mostly glabrous, the young parts sometimes 
clothed with woolly hairs, sometimes stellulate. Leaves 1-24 inches long, the lobes 
4-1 inch or more long, not a line wide; rarely (in the Winterhoek specimens) vary- 
ing from linear-lanceolate, entire, to narrow-cuneate, tridentate or shortly 3-lobed, 
1-14 line wide. Corymb usually compound, of very many heads. Invol. scales 
variable, sometimes very narrow and sharp, sometimes broader and blunter. 
30. A. palmatifida (DC. 1. c. 89); all parts densely clothed with soft, 
short, silky hairs; leaves densely imbricating, broadly linear to the 
middle, then palmately cleft, the medial lobe linear, entire, the lateral 
lobes deeply bifid, all callous-mucronate ; corymb (undeveloped) many- 
headed ; heads many-fl., globose, hirsute, (fl. not seen). 
Has. Gnadenthal, in clefts of mountain rocks, 2-3000 feet, Drege ! (Herb. Sd.) 
A remarkable species, densely tomentose in all parts. ‘Leaves about uncial, the 
undivided portion 4 inch long, 1-14 line wide ; the lobes about as long, and } line 
wide; margins slightly recurved. ‘The inflorescence in the only specimen I have 
seen is only about half-opened, the corymb being half hidden among the uppermost 
leaves. 
§ 4. Morysta. (Sp. 31-40.) 
$1. A. tomentosa (Thunb.! Cap. 634.); virgate, all parts tomentose; 
leaves crowded, linear, flat, midribbed, mucronulate ; corymb compound, 
densely many-headed, fastigiate ; heads oblong, 10-12 fl.; invol. scales 
obtuse, with deciduous toment.; pappus none; achenes (ripe) crowned 
with a few minute teeth. Morysia velutina, DC.? Ll. c. 91. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Mundt! (Herb. Th., Hk.) | 
Branches long, straight, simple, densely tomentulose and velvetty. Leaves 1-1} 
inch long, 1 line wide, with an evident midrib, sub-obtuse. Heads 50-10 in a much- 
. branched corymb. There is no pappus, bu. each rib of the achene is produced 
upwards into a minute tooth.—I suppose this to be DC.’s “ Morysia velutina,” found 
at Swellendam by Ecklon, but having seen no specimens so marked, I forbear to 
quote Ecklon’s habitat. Possibly Ecklon received his specimen from Mundt, who 
collected largely at Swellendam. 
$2. A. fasciculata (Harv.); glabrous, flexuous; leaves crowded, linear, 
semi-terete (when dry channelled above), obtuse or mucronulate; co- 
rymb much branched, dense, very many-headed; heads 7-9-fl.; invol. 
scales obtuse, oblong, in few rows; pappus none. Morysia fasciculata, 
Less.! Syn. 262. DC.1.c.91. Pteronia fasciculata, Willd. fide Less. Tana- 
cetum vestitum, Thunb.! Cap. 642. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Langekloof and Uitenhage, Ecklon! Swellendam! Mundt! 
Thom! (Herb. Th., Sd., Hk.) 
Very similar in aspect to A. indivisa, and also, though less so, to A. jiliformis, 
but differing from both in wanting pappus. Leaves about 1 inch long, } line wide, 
