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heads 5-6 flowered ; tube of corolla very hairy ; inv. scales obtuse ; 
pappus none. Morysia spathulata, DC. i.c. 91. 
Has. Near Groenriver and Waterval, 2500-3000 f., Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
About 1-14 f. high, with slender, virgate, leafy branches. ‘Leaves erecto-patent, 
nearly 7 inch long, 4-5 lines wide at top, closely placed below, sub-distant toward 
the ends of the branches. Invol. pale straw-colour. A well marked species. 
38, A. pectinata (Linn. f. Suppl. 361); glabrous or nearly so; leayes 
pinnati-partite, or deeply 3-5 lobed, lobes narrow-linear, channelled, 
acute ; corymb compound, very dense, many headed ; bracts subulate ; 
heads g-12-fl.; cor. glabrous; inv. scales obtuse; pappus none. Zhunbd.! 
Cap. 636. Morysia lineariloba, DC.! l. c. 92. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg!, Burch. 6507. Gauritz R., Drege! Swellendam, £. § Z.! 
Pappe! (Herb. Th. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Leaves on the same twig some pinnatisect, with 3-4 pinne on each side, some 
trifurcate or 5-lobed, all from ¢ to 1 inch long, the lobes 4 line wide, corymb very 
close, round-topped. Thunberg’s specimens quite agree with Drege’s. 
39, A. acerosa (Harv.); twigs and peduncles pubescent or villous ; 
leaves glabrate, crowded or tufted, some pinnati-partite, some 3-5 lobed, 
some entire and acerose, lobes narrow-linear, with recurved margins, 
acute ; corymbs compound, densely many headed ; bracts subulate ; 
heads 7-9-fl.; cor. glabrous; inv. scales very narrow, gland-bearing ; 
pales few; pappus none. Morysia acerosa, DC. 1. ¢. 92. 
Has. Betw. Omcomas and Omsamculo, Drege/ Natal, Plant, No. 100. Between 
Maritzburg and Ladysmith, Gerr. d M‘K. 266. T. Cooper, 1139. (Herb. D. Hk., Sd.) 
Branches virgate, densely leafy to the summit, the leaves mostly with axillary 
tufts. Leaves 3-1 inch long, like those of A. pectinata. Recept. with marginal 
palez only. Inv. scales narrower than in any other species. 
40. A. pinnata (Linn. f. Suppl. 361) ; all parts velvetty-tomentose, 
canescent ; leaves crowded, pinnati-partite, the lobes linear, with sub- 
revolute margins, callous-mucronate ; corymb much-branched, densely 
many headed ; pedune. hairy ; heads 15-20-fl. ; cor. glabrous ; inv. 
scales oblong, pubescent, sub-obtuse, outer acute. Zhunb./ Cap. 637. 
Morysia pinnata, DC. 1.c. 92. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ Langekloof, Drege! Zwarthoogte, Uit. Zey.! 839 and near 
Grahamstown, EF. §Z.! Genl. Bolton! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
2-3 feet high, robust, densely clothed with grey-downy leaves. Leaves 1-14 inch 
long, the lobes 4-4 line wide. Corymbs 2-3 inches across, very dense and compound. 
Doubtful Species. 
A. aspera (Linn.); “villous-scabrid ; leaves ovate, 5-toothed ; corymb 
panicled, sub-globose.” DO. Morysia aspera, Less. Syn. 263. DC. 1. c. 
Ath, levigata, L. 
Has. Cape. 
Probably a scabrid var. of A. dentata: it is said to vary with glabrous leaves. 
- LXXV. ERIOCEPHALUS, Linn. 
Heads 10-15-fl., heterogamous; the ray-jt. female, with a bifid style 
and mostly ligulate, the ligule broadly-obovate, toothed, sometimes very 
short and small; disc-fl. tubular, 5-toothed, male, with perfect stamens 
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